ws all of them will be at least 70 years
Pitkin Reviews
School Changes
Sees Curriculum Reflecting
Transition In Social
Structure
BY F. A, PITKIN
Director, Pennsylvania State [Planning
Board
(Special To The Post)
Though this is the season for “time
out” on school books and other im-
plements of learning, it may not be
inappropriate for a review of the
State’s educational system if we are
to keep up with the frequent changes
and progressive ideas being adopted
to meet modern demands.
More than one-fifth of all Pennsyl-
vanians are pupils or students in
school or college. The great majority
are in the 12,000 or more public schools,
which had an enrollment of 1,9444,022
boys and girls in 1934. The others are
in private schools, colleges, or normal
schools. The State has 54 recognized
colleges and 16 normal schools.
For over a century the State has
had free public schools for all children.
During these hundred years many of
the schools have developed into large
modern institutions with widely var-
ied programs; Others have in some
respects advanced little beyond their
pioneer ancestors, for even in this age
of consolidations made possible by
good roadsiand motor buses,-there are
still more than-£,000-01é-room school-
houses in Pennslyvania.
Boys and girls now ego to public
school not only to study the common
school subjects, but also to get train-
ing in art, in music, in stenography, in
agriculture, in home economics, in care
of the health, and in mang other
branches that serve as good prepara-
tion for citizenship.
It is possible that the schools of a
hundred years hence will be as differ-
ent from those of today as they are
from the first public schools of 1834,
which taught little beyond “the three
Rs.” Schools are constantly changing
to meet the changing needs of societh,
Many more children will remain in
school until they are eighteen or twen-
ty. This will mean wide changes in
the courses offered.
Many modern schools are tying up
their work more and more closely with
jife itself. In the more progressive
institutions children are taught by act-
nally doing things; rather than by
merely ' reading and writing about
them. English, arithmetic, and geog-
raphy are not isolated but all are
taught and used together as they are
in the actual process of living. Boys
and girls are given opportunity to
jearn to do the things for which they
are best fitted.
typical of the artistic’ work
AS TWILIGHT DESCENDS
The photographer who snapped the Market Street
Bridge over the Susquehanna River from this unusyal
angle captured all the impressive-beauty of one of the
great arches, silhouetted against scudding clouds as the
sun was dropping below the horizon. ‘This picture is
that is’ being ‘done with a
camera today, rivalling in beauty and tone some of the
most beautiful of paintings
Tragedy Stalks
- Bird Families
Reader Tells Of Mysterious
Fate Which Lurks In
Shrubbery
cae.
The following communication to The:
Post is presented, not onkys because the
story is related in interesting fashion,
but because some reader may be able
to suggest, through the columns of
the paper, what our correspondent can
do ao prevent a recurrance of the
tragedy,
“Tragedy stalks the life of birds.
Early this year a robin built her nest
high in the limbs of a blue spruce
that is a part of the shrubbery just
outside the windows of my home. For
several dg,s we watched her build
Want To Discover |
Old-Time Fiddler |
State's Homespun Minstrels
Get Chance At Bucknell
Festival
Lewisburg, Pa., June 24 — Perhaps
the oldest of Pennsylvania’s old-time
fiddlers will be discovered at the Penn-
sylvania-German regional folk festi-
wal in Allentown Saturday.
If he is, he will have seen more
Summers come and 80 than Garney
Kelly, 78, of Ashland, who thus far is
the oldest entrant in a State-wide
fiddlers contest to be held at the Penn-
gylvania Folk Festival here July 30
and 31, under the auspices of Bucknell |
Universiti, E
Should the most aged Of Pennsyl-
vania’'s homespun minstrels be dis-
covered tomorrow, he will be paid
special honor at the state-wide fete of
. jndigenous lore and minstrelsy. He
will not be required to compete unless |
he feels his aging’ bones will let him, |
according to George Korson, festival
director.
If he does compete, it will be against
such stalwart survivors as Kelly, who |
will represent the anthracite coal re-
gions; John Wilsoncroft, 72, of Clear-
field, representing the old-time river
raftsmen who flcated huge rafts of |
virgin timber down the Susquehanna
River to tidewater in days of yore, and
Charles Anderson, 76, of Rome, Pa,
delegate from the lumbering country
of Pennsylvania's Northern Tier
counties.
Kelys has played the same fiddle for
60 years. The same instrument which
enlivened many a miner's shindig in
its time will be heard by thousands of
persons assembled in Bucknell’s- con-
grete stadium, probably by many more
of the radio audience.
Western Pennsylvania's contribu-
tion to the old-time fiddler’s contest
will be selected at the All-Nations
Folk Festival in Pittsburgh July 5.
Others will be entered as they are
discovered throughout the State, and
old.
The program for the festival opens
on the evening of July 30, when Nan-
ticoke Indians, Mboravians, Welsh,
Scotch, Pennsylvania-Germans, Swed-
es, Ukrainians, and Negroes will depict
their folk-lore, and a mummers’ string
band will play. State-wide contests
in fiddling, jig and clog dancing, bal-
lad ' singing, tall-story telling and
country auctioneering, an Indian pow-
wow, and English folk songs are fea-
tures for the afternoon of July 31,
while the folklore of the Conestoga
wagoners, canal boatmen, railroaders,
sailors, raftsmen, lumbermen, and coal
miners will be seen that evening,
climaxed by a State-wide contest for
the square dancing championship of
Pennsylvania.
her home and followed her daily €o-
ings and comings as she laid four eggs
in the nest. Then one morning as we
made our daily inspection to see how
housekeeping was going in the robin
household, we found her dead on her
nest. All evidence pointed to a violent
battle between the robin 4nd some in-
truder. The nest was a shambles,
with twigs and bits of string scattered
over the branches of the spruce. Ome
eye was plucked from the badly bat-
tered side of the dead robin’s head.
“Im:mediately we laid the blame for
this tragedy on an attack of starlings,
although we had not seen any star-
lings in the vicinity. Wie reasoned
that no cat had committed the crime
being of the opinion that a cat would
have carried off the robin as a morsel
for dinner. Four blue eggs in the nest
were undisturbed. There was no fur-
ther solution to the mystery. But we
determined that from that date on we
would be mortal enemies of starlings.
“Some weeks later two catbirds paid
a #all to our shrubbery and judging it
la fit place to build a ‘home and rear
a family started in earnest to build
a nest. Again every morning we took
up our position just inside the window
to observe the daily activity of the
catbird family It was not long be-
fore there were four young catbirds
in the nest with two very busy cat-
bird parents working from dawn until
dusk to keep them well fed. Then
Wednesday morning we found a dead
catbird on the nest, three of the young
gone, and the remaining young cat-
bird, not yet large enough to fly, badly
frightened and resting on a lower
limb of the shrub in which the nest
was built. In this case there was no
evidence of violence. Again we reas-
oned that no cat had committeed this
crime, but we were likewise unwilling
to blame it on starlings.
“Perhaps there is somewhere among
your readers someone who takes an
active interest in the observation of
bird life, who can help me to clear up
this mp'stery or who has had similar
tragedies among the birds in his own
trees. To all appearances the shrubs
about our house should be ideal nest-
ing spots for birds, =~ They are well
protected against storms, furnish ideal
concealment of the nests except from
an observer at the windows within the
“THE DALLAS POST, _ FRIDAY,
TONE 25, 1957.
SOCIAL
Miss Catherine Gensel of Parrish
street was taken to the General Hos-
pital for an emergency operation on
| Tuesdap
—— tI eee.
BERLEN-SHOTWELL
Loren L. Berlew and Martha A.
‘Shotwell were united in marriage by
Rev, Gertrude Ross of Dallas Thurs-
day evening, June 17, at 8 p. m. at the
home of the groom, 708 Merger Ave-
nue, Kingston, in the presence of” a
large number of friends.
Asa Shotwell, son of the bride, gave
her away. Other attendants were Lor-
en Berlew, Jr. Robert Shotwell, Mrs.
Vivian Atkinson and Mrs. Sarah Ell-
sworth, children of the bride. Mns.
Berlew wore a pale blue crepe with
grdy slippers; Mrs, Atkinson wore a
white linen, and Mrs. Ellsworth wore
wine-colored voile. All carried cor-
sages of mixed flowers. On Saturday
evening seventy-five friends gathered
to congratulate the couple.
Alderson M. E.
Children’s Day
The children’s day program at Al-
derson M. E. church will be held on
Sunday, as follows:
Prelude, Roannah and Edwin ‘Shoe-
maker; children’s prayer service; wel-
come, Carol Scouton; recitations, Mar-
jon Parsons, “A Little Pansy”; Ruth
Zimmerman, “A Tiny Violet”; Arnold
Garinger, “Much Too Small”; William
Besecker, “Just Watch”; Elizabeth
George, “Welcome to You”; baptismal
service; graduation of
and girls’ classes; pageant, “The Fes-
tal Queen’, entire primary group.
Himmlers Plan Trip
To Western States
Mr. and Mrs. Wesley Hisnmler of
Lake Road, Dallas, and Mr and Mrs.
L H. Morgan of Kingston will leave
early next month for a trip to Califor-
nia and Wlestern states. Among the
interesting places they will visit dur-
ing a sixrmonth absence will be the
Yellowstone National Park, Salt Lake
City, the Grand Canyon, Boulder Dam,
Chicago, Denver, San Francisco, Los
Angeles, Colorado Springs, Glacier
National Park, the copper mines in
Arizona, Mt. Hood in Oregon, and
Hollywood, where they will visit the
| itm studios.
house. No children disturb the birds
and I have never seen any cats in the
vicinity.
“I shall appreciate some suggestion
from your readers which may help us
to protect any birds which seek refuge
in our shrubbery.”
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Junior boys’ :
Back Mountain Biographies—No. 19
Thomas J. Miers, who many will remember as a retired Kunkle farmer,
was born in Chemung County, N. Y., September 20, 1830, the son of Jacob
and Sarah (Wilcox) Miers, both of whom were also born in New York state.
They came to this section in 1834, locating in Dallas Township, on the place
later occupied by William Goss. Jacob and Sarah lived there until they
died. Jacob had a seventy-five acre farm. He was postmaster for several
years and upon his death at the age of 43 his wife succeeded him in that
office. Thomas J. was the fourth in the family and was reared and educated
in Dallas Township. He was married to Miss Hannah J. Ferguson in 1834
and they had seven children, Frederick, George, Elizabeth, Ida, Miles C., and
two who died as children. In 1863 Thomas Miers went to New Jersey and
became a member of the Fourth New Jersey Light Artillery, to serve for a
term of three years, He was wounded in both hands by the explosion of a
shell during the battle of Deep Bottom. He was honorably discharged and
drew a pension until his death. A Democrat, he held several township offi-
ces, having served as supervisor, poor ‘master, and assessor, with much credit.
Taylor-Garinger
; Unemployed And WPA
Wedding Announced
Workers Meet June 28
Harvey's Lake unemplgyed and
WIPA workers will meet on June 28
at Besecker's Restaurant, on the Pic-
married at Bloemsburg in June 15 by| nic Grounds. Speakers from the Work-
Justice of the Peace Josiah MacKen-| ers’ Alliance will talk on WPA lay-
zie. Richard Gibson and Catherine |0ffs and explain how they can be a-
voided. The election of new officers
will take place as soon as the speakers
are through. Every unemployed man
or WIPA worker is urged to attend
j the meeting.
Robert Taylor of Harvey's Lake and
Norma Garinger of Idetown were
Taylor, a sister of the groom, were the
attendants. Mr. Taylor is the son of
Mr. and Mrs. Adrian Taylor of Har-
vey’'s Lake.
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