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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
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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.
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No. 15
Find Way
me Opposition
By-Pass Proponents Working On New Plan Which Will
Eliminate Necessit
ments of Plan
For Luzerne’s Sanction; Indorse-
ccumulate; Rotarians Hopeful
LUZERNE BUSINESS MEN TO MEET TUESDAY
Faced with the possibility of continued opposition in Luz¢rne to any at-
tempt to construct a highway which will avoid that borough's. Main Street,
proponents of the long-delayed by-pass this week were studying’ a new
plan to skirt the borough, thus removing the job from Luzerne's juris.
diction.
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