PS YOUR RENEWAL NOW EE aS ( AT A $1,000 PRIZE! 1 C I N More Than A Newspaper, A Community Institution KEEP POSTED! READ OUR EDITORIALS EACH WEEK! VOL. 47 POST SCRIPTS AUTHORS DRIVERS POSTMEN HIGHWAY TOLL This column is especially proud to lead off this week with two unusual pieces of poetry appropriate to the twentieth anniversary of this nation’s entry into the war which was to have ended all wars and save the world for Democracy. We are grateful to Miss Ruth Howell, * daughter of Dr. G. L. Howell of Trucks- ville, for permission to use these original poems, and to Mrs. Hugh G. Murray, who knew we would want to publish them this week. We have seldom been privi- leged to publish anything better written than these: HOKKU Red radiant blood, It will not be so bright, When it is dry and dark. Sy HEXAMETERS Our God is merciful and Christ we adore, And human sacrifices we piously abhor. “Thou shalt not kill’; therefore in retri- bution just Who kills a man is to electrocution rushed. But mass production is our aim and end in life; Heroic is he who kills a thousand men in strife. tee Thank you, Miss Howell, for express: ing so well what many people have been unable to say this week. gate One of our most fervent prayers is that some day either Kenneth Roberts or Walter Edmonds, who, in our opinion, write better stories of Colonial America than any other authors, will decide to write a novel about the early days of Wyoming Valley. Frequently, both show interest in the colorful events which took place in this section 150 years ago. In Edmonds’ lat- est novel, ‘Drums Along the Mohawk,” there are two or three paragraphs about the Battle of Wyoming, and in several of his Saturday Evening Post stories he has mentioned local events casually. Rob- erts, too, has referred to the significance of incidents along the Susquehanna in re- lation to the guerilla warfare of the Rev- olution. It is apparent they know some- thing of the valley's history. That history, we believe, could be the background ‘for. a story as gripping: as Roberts’ “Arundel” or “Rabble in Arms” or as quaint as Edmonds’ “Erie Water” or “Drums Along the Mohawk." It seems unlikely that any episode in the valley's: history could hold enough hardship and pain to appeal to the man who wrote “Rogers Rangers” yet we sus pect that Mr. Roberts could find in Gen: eral Sullivan's vengeful conquest after the massacre ample material for a story comparable to that of the Rangers’ heart- breaking march back from Canada, or Arnold's retreat from Quebec. When Sullivan marched across Poconos on his way to burn the villages of the Indians who had aided the British he made his own roads. Rough Indian trails criss-crossed near villages but since the red men who lived hereabouts had little traffic with other tribes they had no need for a complicated system of trails. In their opinion a road was only useful at the time. they wanted to get . some- where and when they had accomplished that purpose there was no further use for the road. The savage built neither house, bridge, nor road for future use. Every traveller ‘was expected to do his own engineering. Sullivan had wagons, cattle and can- non to bring over the mountains from Easton. Even today, with broad con: crete highways cutting through the Poco- nos it is not difficult to understand what obstacles he must have encountered. It was even more difficult after * he had headed up the Susquehanna from Wilkes: Barre. At “Breakneck,” a few miles above Towanda, cattle tumbled from a difficult trail along a mountain ridge and were killed. The heavy timber, the steep gorges, the narrow ledges high in the hard rock were a constant threat to the men oO Sullivan's expedition and the hardships they must have faced inching their way through virgin wilderness where blood- thirsty Indians awaited their chance to drive an arrow deep into a buff and blue figure deserve a place in literature. Both Edmonds and Roberts delight in creating rough, bawdy, earthy characters and they would find no dearth of them in local history. There were, for example, the stage drivers. It is one of the nicest points in qur history to determine of the tsree which was the greatest man—the stage driver, writing master or singing-schoo! teacher. There is a wealth of evidence in favor of the man who drove the four horse stage coach. The typical stage driver knew every: thing, loved his horses, and was the idol of all the cooks along his route. It took fire and steam to conquer him. Generally he wore a broad-brimmed hat, a broad leather belt, and a home- spun’ shirt and his cheek bulged wonder fully with his cud of tobacco. “Watch- ing him come tooting into the * village, throwing * his lines disdainfully to the hostlers,. and swaggering into the tavern, you could appreciate that he was more than a great man, a great institution. The stage driver was at his best when he could coax some impressionable trav- ellers up to the driver's seat to serve as subjects for the coachman's conversation, which often soared on fantastic fliohts of imagination. Conrad Teter, one noted Wilkes-Barre whip, was famous for en- the |. G. O. P. Is Slow To Oppose New Rural District Much Comment But Very Little Opposition To Zappala Measure SUCCESS ASSURED A disclosure of plans at Harris burg for consolidating the rural dis tricts of Western Luzerne County into one vast Legislative District of the Democratic party in Luzerne County brought many comments but very little opposition and it seemed certain this week that the measure would become law. The plan was discussed compre- hensively ir an exclusive story in The Post last week, the first detailed dis- closure of the move to be published in this section. The plan, embodied in the Zapalla Bill, would combine parts of the Sixth, Sec- ond and Fourth Legislative Districts into one large district which would elect one representative to the Legislature. The other half of the county, divided into seven smaller districts, would have eight representatives at Harrisburg. An interesting discussion of the move {appeared in Thomas F. Heffernan’s col umn of political comment in The Inder pendent. Mr. Heffernan wrote: “That feature of the reapportionment measure calling for a legislative district that will be composed entirely of the rural municipalities in the present Sixth and Fourth districts will be little differ ent in result than the old Second dis trict, which previous to the reapportion- ment of thirty years ago covered prac tically the same territory. The old Sec- ond, out of which was carved the greater part of the present Sixth and Fourth dis tricts, extended from the Lackawanna and Wyoming county borders on the East to the Columbia county border on the West. It’s worth recalling that this old rural district sent several representatives to Harrisburg who left their impress on the legislation enacted during the sessions in which they served. It sent Elisha A. Coray to the legislature for five sessions, though not consecutively. Mr. Coray was one of the leaders in the Wanamaker drive against the Quay-Penrose dynasty. Wonder of wonders, he is now an ex- pounder, of the Gospel and has been do- ing good work in this role for a quarter of a atudy. Ile is remembered at Harrisburg as the legislator who spent his ‘spare time in the House reading the Bible and never ate more for his lunch than a ginger snap and cup of black coffee, The same district also sent to the legislature J. Crawford Harvey for two terms. He was then a resident of Harveyville. For many years he has been a resident of Wilkes-Barre, being the rep- resentative for Northeastern Pennsylvania of the Girard Life Insurance Company. Another capable legislator from the same old district was the late George Ross, Lu- zerne druggist.” ree I rere I. O. O. F. Installation Odd Fellows of the Dallas Lodge will hold their installation of officers at the Dallas Lodge Rooms Monday evening. Dr. Robert Bodycomb will have charge of the Installation Services. Board In Session Over Four Hours No More Washington Trips For Kingston Township Seniors At a session which lasted from 8 p. m. until 12:30—part of that time behind closed doors—the directors of Kingston Township schools decided on Monday night that this wyear’s Senior Class will be the last to make a trip to Washington, D.C In the future, the board agreed, the Senior Classes will be permitted to make only a one-day trip, possibly to the State Capitol at Harrisburg. The objections of parents to having their children away ¢ | overnight and the added expense arising from the increasing size of Senior classes in the township were given as reasons for the action. Mrs. Kent Chairman At State Conference Mrs. Edward H. Kent of Huntsville was chairman of the sponsoring commits tee for the Pennsylvania Conference Social Work held on Monday and Tues day in Wilkes-Barre. Mrs. Kent presid- ed at the general session on Monday night when Hon. Brien McMahan, Assistant Attorney General, Department of Justice, spoke on crime control. Valley Thespians Will Appear Here Kingston League Gives Play In Township School Tonight A farce comedy in three acts, “The Blue Bag,” by-J. D. McMullen, will be given in Kingston Township High School tonight (Friday) by the Brotherhood of St. Paul's Lutheran Church. The group to give the play is from the Luther League of Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, Kingston, and will be directed by Mrs. William Shewan, Jr. Members of the cast: Arthur Plieskatt, tertaining his passengers. An innocent {Continued on Page 5) which would strengthen the position | on | THE DAILAS POST, DALLAS, PA., FRIDAY. APRIL 9, 1937 RED CROSS TRAINING SAVES LIVES One of the 800,000 persons who have received training by the Red Cross in safety and rescue methods goes to the rescue of a frightened canoeist. To train more local people in water safety, the Red Cross will conduct a three- day course in Wilkes-Barre next Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. Zubrod Will Head Swimmers’ School Red Cross Aquatic Experts Will Conduct Classes In Life-Saving “Every American a swimmer and every swimmer a life saver.” This slogan of the first aid and life saving service of the American Red Cross is emphasized by the local chapter in an- nouncing a three-day campaign to be conducted at Wilkes-Barre Y. M. C. A, on next Monday, Tuesday and Wednes- day evenings, under the direction of Robert G. Zubrod, former National Swim- ming Champion and water safety instruc: tor of national repute. Figures that indicate the need for this instruction are cited by John R. Collins, chairman of the local chapter's lite say- ing service: Thirty - million ‘Americans, went swimming last summer,” he says, “while millions more found recreation in boating and canoeing, leaving no doubt that aquatic sports rank first in the num- ber ot participants and diversity of in- terest and activity. An average of 5,000 persons drowned every year indicates the danger for those not properly quali fied for such sports. Experts tell us that most drownings are caused by not know: ing how te swim, by swimming alone, by swimming too soon after eating, by at- tempting to swim to shore from‘ a cap. sized ‘boat or canoe, or by diving into shallow water. The Red Cross creed de- mands that danger be kept at a mini- mum.” : The life saving course next week will give those who are already examiners a chance to renew their appointments and to obtain the latest information on water safety. Cross life savers the necessary training to secure a position as an examiner. The course will be open to all senior life sav- ers, 20 years of age or over, with a defi- nite place to instruct in the near future. Baseball Season Begins April 27 Local Scholastic Schedule Annourced; Six Games / Listed A schedufe for the Back Mountain Scholastic Baseball Feague was announce ed this week following a meeting of school officials from Lehman, Dallas Township, Kingston Township and Dal las Borough in Dallas Borough High School on Tuesday night. R. H. Rood will coach the Dallas Bor- ough School nine. Four teams will be in the league, which will open its season on April 27 and conclude on May 21. The schedule follows: Tuesday, April 27: Lehman at Kings ton Township; Dallas Borough at Dallas Township. ‘May 4: Dallas Township at Lehman; Kingston Township at Dallas Borough. May 7: Lehman at Dallas Borough; Dallas Township at Kingston Township. May 11: Kingston Township at Leh- man; Dallas Township ‘at Dallas Borough. May 14: Lehman’ at Dallas Township; Dallas Borough at Kingston Township. May 21: Kingston Township at Dallas Township; Pallas Borough at Lehman. It is extended to give Senior Red’ Summerhill Wins Cards’ Contract Will Play Through Season, Probably Win Columbus Nine ~~ Stephen Summerhitt; ‘who resigned from the faculty of Lehman High School sev: eral weeks ago for a tryout with the St. Louis Cardinals, has clinched a berth for the season with one of the team’s “farms” according to advice received here this week. : Summerhill hit a slump shortly after he reached Albany, Ga., and got off to a slow start. but his big break came on the day Branch Rickie, manager of the Cards, stopped by to look over the crop of rookies. On that day Summerhill clout ed the ball so often and so furiously that Rickie called him over and complimented him. It was Rickie who noticed that Sum: merhill, who has always played in the outfield, possessed all the qualities of a catcher and since the Cards are known to be short on catching ‘material Summerhill was. ordered to change positions and is now on the lineup as a catcher. He has beén sent to’ Columbus, O., where the Cards have a team .which is used for the development of Big League material.;z. Summerhill informed : friends here this week that he is not certain of where he will be playing this year until after April 14, when the season = opens. He has, however, been assured of a berth for the season. PTA Will Honor School Athletes Letters Will Be Awarded At Dinner Wednesday Night Boys and girls from the athletic teams of Dallas Borough High School will be guests of honor at a dinner to be spon- sored by Dallas Borough Parent-Teacher Association in Dallas M. E. Church next Wednesday night at 6:30. A limited number of reservations for the affair will be available to the public, with friends and members of the fam- ilies of the pupils on the teams having first choice. Reservations may be made by telephoning the high school or Mrs. Arthur Dungey. Clyde Lapp, a member of the school board, will be toastmaster. The speakers will include Ernest Line, coach of foot- ball and basketball, Dorothy Gardner, coach of girls’ basketball, and Harry L. Tennyson, supervising principal. The committee arranging the affair has as members officers and committee chair men of the Parent-Teacher Association. “Blue and Gold” In Contest At Lehigh “The Blue and Gold” student pusli- cation of Dallas Borough High School, is entered in the fourth annual Lehigh Scholastic Press Conference to be held on Saturday, May 8, at Lehigh Univer- sity. The paper is entered in Class C, consisting of schools with an enrollment of 491 or less. The Dallas Post; Inc. Dallas, Penna. Page Two.) 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Until something definite can be reported, the allied groups working for the by-pass have requested a minimum of publicity, but it can be an- nounced that a way to overcome any possible opposition from Luzerne council, which blocked the plan last F iremen Abandon Latest Proposal Will Consider Entirely New Plan At Meeting On Monday Night Having abandoned ’ plans for ac- quiring a new home, members of Shav- ertown Volunteer Fird. Company will have a third proposal presented to them at their meeting next Monday night in the Shavertown School House and a final decision on the matter is expected. The movement to buy or build a home for the Shavertown company has been ur der consideration for some time and ear- ly in February, with $2,700 already in their treasury, the firemen agreed to look over properties with the view of acquir- ing a home. The first proposal adopted was to purchase the building now. occupied by Albert Bush's garage on Main Street, Shavertown, and to remodel it. A com- mittee secured a price and estimates on the remodelling and the firemen consid- ered the proposal seriously for a time, but then tabled it in favor of a plan to build. Last month the trustees were author ized to get an option on a lot on Main Street, Shavertown, owned by Warden Kunkle, with the intention of building there. The cost of the building was es- timated at $5,000. It was believed that the plan would go through = without a hitch. if After consideration, however, many of the firemen felt that the building sug- gested would be too small and that a building large enough to contain bowling ‘alleys, quoit courts, pool tables, a. read- ing room, a card room and an auditorium would bring many new members into the company and provide revenue which would be helpful in financing the build- ing. As a result, the second set of plans were temporarily laid aside and it is un- derstood the trustees will report on Mon- day night on an entirely new proposal, and that a vote will be taken to decide if the company is to build or to buy a home, such as the Bush building. A prominent member of the company said this week he expects the matter will be settled finally on Monday night. Three-Act Comedy At Lehman School Juniors To Present ‘“That’s The Ticket” On Friday, - April 10 The Junior Class of Lehman High School will present a three-act farce com- edy, “That's The Ticket,” by Franklin Gilson and Kenneth Scott, in the high school on Friday night, April 16, at 8 p. m. The production is being coached by H. A. Snyder, supervising principal. The cast includes Robert Parks, as Mr. Betterly, a moderately rich, small town business man; Dorothy Whitesell as Mrs. Betterly, his talkative wife; Donald Boice as Nick Barnes, John Betterly’s up-to-date business partner; Jean Howell as Peggy Betterly, the attractive daughter of John; Harold Brown as Harkaway Boggs, a small town lawyer, stiff, formal and im- portant; Howard Johnson, as the ambu- lance attendant, and Charles Kinsman as Godivar, the Betterly’s genial negro ser- vant. The plot centers about John Betterly, who. conceals his modest race track specu: | lations from his wife until he draws a About $550,000 is at stake and he can’t locate the ticket. Nick and John comb the house. Finally, after many complications, the ticket is found but there is another surprise in the romance of Peggy and Nick. The early ticket sale indicates that a large crowd will be pres ent to enjoy the production. winner. Alumni Presents Comedy Tonight Katherine Stolarick Directs Play At Lehman High Tonight The Lehman High School Alumni As- sociation will give a two-act comedy, “School Day” in the Lehman High School auditorium tonight (Friday) at 8. Members of the cast are Edna Sutton, Stella Johnson, Florence Weintz, Jean Elston, Ruth Simms, Helen Miers, Fern Howell, Mrs. Lewis Ide, Sheldon Ehret, Arthur Miers, Michael Scopic, Ralph Miers, Lewis Ide, George Stolarick, and Arden Steele. Miss Katherine Stolarick is directing the play. —4ai Informed sources told The year, has been discovered. Post this week that important develop- ments. may be expected soon. Meanwhile, Dallas Rotary Club con~ tinued to accumulate indorsements indica- tive of the widespread interest in the revived movement for a Luzerne by-pass. By this week sixteen civic groups, busi ness men’s organizations and other insti- tutions had adopted formal resolutions supporting the drive. United with Dallas Rotary Club now are Harvey's Lake Pro- tective Association, Dallas Business Men's # Association, College Misericordia, Mt. Greenwood Kiwanis Club, Irem Temple Country: Club, West Side Lions Club, Wilkes-Barre Y's Men's Club, Wyoming Valley Chamber of Commerce, the Exe- cutive Sales Council of Wilkes-Barre, Wyoming Valley Motor Club and Wilkes-Barre: Y. W. C. A., which has a summer camp at Harvey's Lake. More determined than ever to carry their fight to a finish, Dallas Rotarians { were optimistic: this week that the plans iwill be successful and, despite the lack of definite commitments, were still hope- ful that construction might be started this summer. “We find that all of the newspapers and nearly every individual are strongly ‘in favor of this project,” said C. L. Al- bert, chairman of the Rotary Club's com- mittee. “We have passed petitions in various ‘sections of the community and have found, to the best of my knowledge, no one who is not anxious to sign. “However, we feel that we have only made a beginning and are very determin- ed that we shall have a new highway in some form, either through Luzerne or around Luzerne, to give us a better artery of travel between the metropolitan area and Routes 115 and 92, which lead to Benton, Williamsport, Eagles Mere, Dal- las, Harvey's’ Lake, Tunkhannock and all points north.” : Before he left on a trip to Arkansas, Norman Johnstone, secretary of Wyoming Valley Motor Club, expressed deep satis faction with the progress made so far. A conference of representatives, of groups interested in the plans at Hotel Sterling last Friday night bore valuable, fruit. : Senator Leo C. Mundy, who attended the meeting, expressed himself as being tions. Senator Mundy informed the confer- ence last Friday night that the State Highway Department is preparing to ex- pend a million dollars in highway con- struction this year. Most of this con- struction is scheduled for other parts of the county and none has been definitely allotted for the” by-pass; although Secrer tary of Highways V. arren. Van Dyke has informed thc local Rotary committee. he is' in favor:of that proposal. One or the developments at the co ference with Senator Mundy was the complete squashing of an alternate pro | sal to construct a road past Schooley’d ..> in Luzerne to join with Main street in Luzerne, a short distance past the present junction with that thoroughfare. A majority ‘of the men present plainly indicated their’ disapproval of any plan which does not eliminate the Luzerne “*bottle-neck.” - : Even in’ Luzerne sentiment was said to be swinging in favor of a by-pass. Many merchants who opposed the. plan originally’ have come to the conclusion that such opposition is not creating good- will ‘among the thousands of motorists who. are compelled to use the scarred highway and that Luzerne will lose more by trying to block the popular movement than it would by encouraging the con- struction of a by-pass, which would cer- tainly result in a growth of Luzerne's major market back of the mountain. On - Tuesday night the Luzerne Bor- ough Civic Association will meet at 8 in the firemen’s building to discuss prob- lems pertaining to the by-pass. Local Fire Tower Open For Season Warden Urges Extreme Cary Because Of Dryness Of Woods The Harvey Fire Tower, on the knoll above Irem Country Club, has been open- ed for the season, with Jacob Gossart, Jr., of West Dallas as the warden in charge. Because of the number of forest fires in this section recently, Mr. Gossart urges that extreme care be taken, especially by farmers . who are burning brush, who should . notify the warden before they byrn- over any land. The phone number is Dallas 153-R-16. Balmy weather has brought a number . of people to the tower since it opened and as many as eighteen hikers have wi sited the forest fire station since the first of the month. wholeheartedly for the plan and is ffi BR derstood to have made valuable sugge
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