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LIKED COLUMBUS, O.
(This is the concluding installment
of the record of a 6,800-mile cross-
country motor trip made this Sum-
mer by Dr. and Mrs. G. K. Swartz
and their two children.-
By DR. G. K. SWARTZ
Since Salt Lake City lies on the
Western hem of the Rockies we were
soon in those mountains, but by go-
ing between the ranges our first por-~
tion was easy. Bastern Utah and
Western Colorado are ranch country.
We saw many ranch signs, but In
order to see the buildings we woula
have to scan the horizon. Far from
the road and often just reaching above
that horizon we would see the tops of
those buildings. Such is the magni-
tude of many of our Western ranches,
and should those buildings be centrally
located, ranches certainly would cou-
tain many thousands of acres.
I believe those ranges and plains
could give to every young man who
rides them a feeling of courage and a
zest for a battle with nature that mo
other place could give. Now I can
see how those plains made Theodore
Roosevelt such a strong man, who had
been a sick and weakly boy.
In Steam Boat Spring we saw dude
ranchers from New York lounging
about the soda fountalns, but we
couldn’t expect many people from that
city to venture away from a town.
Soon we were climbing Rabbit's Ear
pass, 9,860 feet high. That is high.
Almost four times higher than our
highest Pennsylvania mountain. We
did it without any trouble, but we
had a pass still higher to cross to get
to Denver. We knew the only thing
to do was to go on and that we did.
A sign told us “Berthoud Pass”. One
map read “Elevation, 11,306 feet”.
Whee! Almost five times higher than
our mountains, Soon we were going
up, and after we had made what we
thought was considerable elevation,
Nancy looked up and exclaimed that
she saw our road high above us. She
was right, for many windings and
turns took us up to where we were
looking down on the road where we
had been before. This continued until
we reached the summit and there,
about 30 feet from us, was snow, Snow
that remains throughout the year. We
got out to look down over the preci-
pice and were met by a chilly blast.
The snow and the elevation produces
wintry temperture. Going down there
were clouds hovering over the valley.
To us it was fog that shut almost all
of our view or else it would have been
probably as thriling as our ascent.
The peak of Berthoud Pass was the
Continental Divide, and interesting in
that we knew that we were then on
the high series of ranges that sepa-
rates the Western from the Eastern
Unitea States We had heard before
the statement “crossing the divide” but
unless one stops to remember it would
mean little. Water draining off the
West side of the divide flows into the
Pacific Ocean; water running off the
East side drains into the Atlantic.
The planners of Denver were wise
for they left plenty of room for ex-
pansion and it follows that there 1s
now a large, beautiful, uncramped city.
Denver surprised us. It is callea
the Mile High City (it is 5,280 feet
above sea level) and I expected it to
be in the mountains. Instead, we had
a ten-mile drive from the base of the
mountains, over relatively flat country,
before we reached the city. And the
city is flat, not greatly hilly, and east-
ward from Denver one does not see
mountains.
Going eastward toward Kansas City
our road straightened out. What seem-
ed an interminable highway kept roll-
ing out ahead of us. We passed
through thinly-settled and almost des-
ert land as we neared the Colorado-
Kansas border. We were then passing
through the fringe of the dust bowl
that we had heard so much about
several years ago. The fine, loamy
soil held a sparse growth of sun-burnt
grass and could easily become a desert
if the hot winds continue to blow over
that area. Constant care must be given
to protect what little is left of that
vast area before it is past conserva-
tion,
In Landon-land
We were anxious to get into the
State of Kansas, for several years ago
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George Lewis Named
Secretary Of Class
At Teachers’ School
George Lewis, son of Attorney
and Mrs. B. B. Lewis, Cemetery
Street, Dallas, was elected secre
tary of the Junior Class at
Stroudsburg State Teachers’ Col-
lege annual elections held recently.
Mr. Lewis is enrolled in the sec-
ondary curriculum at the college
and since his entrance’ has been
among the leaders 46f his class
scholastically and gocially.
Freshman, he served as clags-rep=-
resentative on the ent Senate,
student governing body and last
year was president of the Student
Forum. He is a reporter on the
staff of the Stroud Courier, stu-
dent publication, and publicity
manager of the college Art Clup. .
Other extra-curricular clubs which
have listed him among their most
active members are Y. M. C, A.
and Mask and Zany, college dra-
matic club.
we read much about it in the news-
papers: How it had no state debt, etc.,
so we were really quite curious about
this phenomenal state. Western Kan-
sas was a sad disappointment for after
bumping over their poorly constructed
and ill-kept roads, we wished that they
had more debt and for it better roads.
But if those poor settlers on their
bleak and sun-scorched plains could
endure their rutted main roads and
their unimproved side roads, we surely
ought to be content as long as we
should remain there. What amused
us most was their telephone system.
Their wires were stretched with no
uniformity of height. If a pole rotted
at the bottom it was cut off and re-
placed in the ground. Consequently,
poles varied in height above the
ground, some six feet high, others be-
ing 30 feet high, giving to the line an
altogether irregular arrangement. And
from the condition of their rural
schools, which seem almost primitive
to ours, we did not get the impression
that Western Kansas was very pro-
gressive. In the middle of the state
we passed the oil fields,, mile after
mile of steel oil drills, standing like
sentinels across the fields. Gasoline
and oil are cheap, some dealers offer
ing eight gallons for $1. °
After the oil fields area, Kansas
really opened up her best qualities for
the Eastern half is just opposite to
the crudity of the Western for here are
well developed farms with excellent
crops. Farm buildings are in good re-
pair, schools are modern and roads are
of smooth concrete. Several years ago
we heard a lot about Kansas’ sun flow-
ers.
They were conspicuous every-
They were seen not only In
fields but in store-windows, car win-
on coat lapels and other odd
places, symbols of Landonism and Re-
publicanism. We saw those sun flow-
where.
dows,
ers and were a bit disappointed for
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THE DALLAS POST, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1938
MAN DIES OF INJURY SUFFERED
IN SHOWING SON HOW TO DIVE
Edward Stevens, 28-year-6ld unem-
ployed miner who fractured his bagl
on August 5 while diving ar-
vey’s Lake through an inner tube, died
at the home of his father, Dr. Stephen
Stevens, 1291 Wyoming Avenue, Exe-
ter, on Saturday.
An excellent swimmer, Stevens was
showing his three-year-old son how
to dive when the accident occurred.
He struck the bottom of the lake and
erushed a vertebrae in the upper end
of his spinal column. He was taken
to Nesbitt Memorial Hospital but was
removed to the home of his father last
Wednesday in the hope he was recov-
ing.
Stevens was well-known throughout
this section. His brother, Emil, for-
merly worked at Oliver's Garage, The
young man, a native of Kingston, was
a graduate of St. John’s High School
and had been employed at Ewen Col-
liery. Funeral services were held on
Tuesday.
Surviving are his widow, the former
Helen Wassill, Exeter; a son, Edward,
Jr., a brother, Emil; his mother ana
father, and a grandmother, Mrs. Lewls
Kyttle, Mooretown,
they are mot the stalwart flowers that
lift their faces to the sun that we are
accustomed to see in the East, but a
bushy type of flower with many flow-
ers on one stalk and resemble large,
ox-eyed daisies such as grow wild
along our fence rows and roadways,
in uncultivated places, like our golden-
rod. Kansas alone cannot claim them,
for we had already seen them in South
Dakota, Colorado and Iowa before en-
tering Kansas.
Missouri is fortunate in having two
large cities, Kansas City on the West
and St. Louis on the Bast, and, in be
tween, many colored folks and mules.
I would enjoy having a farm in Mis-
souri if the negroes were not too lazy
to do the work,
Through Illinois again and on Into
Indianapolis, which looked old, because
it was dirty and because it gave the
impression that it was an ancient city.
Indiana and Ohio are beautiful states.
A sense of a high standard of civill-
zation permeates the very air. Rural
areas are tidy, with an atmosphere of
care and responsibility. Small towns
show civic pride. Larger cities are in-
dustrious and have a multitude of in-
dustries. 2
We spent our last night out of Penn-
sylvania at the Southern Cross Hotel
in Columbus, O. I liked the hotel, but
still more I liked its name, a name to
conjure a bit of poetry, “Southern
Cross”, named for a constellation of
stars in the Southern Hemisphere. I
liked the town, which was full of
refuges for the blind, enfeebled or mis- |
fit, evidences of a generous spirit. The
capitol of the State and the seat ox
Ohio State University. Ohio can be
proud of Columbus and Columbus
Homeward Bound
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The next morning we hoped to begin
our last day’s drive before reaching
home and we still had part of Ohio and
a corner of West Virginia before the
Pennsylvania State line would be
reached. But time and distance both
quickly pass in modern conveyances
and the hills of West Virginia arouna
‘Wheeling soon arose before us. We
felt at home already, for the coal
mines, with their breakers, seemed to
remind us of Wyoming Valley. After
climbing a steep hill out of Wheeling
we were soon confronted by the Penn-
sylvania State Line and the welcom-
ing sign “All motorists exceeding the
50-mile speed law may forfeit their li-
cense for 90 days”. We were home.
Otherwise we knew we were home, for
the road began to wind and turn and
at each narrow turn was a passing
car. Hills began to crowd down on us
and trees obstructed our view. Some-
how or other, we got a slight nostalgix
for the broad highways and the wide
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expanse of the West.
In three weeks we had crossea or
traversed 16 states and three of them
twice. A long, long trip for this is a
vast country, so large that unless one
has crossed this great and beautiful
country of ours one could never pos-
sibly conceive of its greatness. Such
variety! Such beauty. Such splendor?
After reaching State College and rest
ing there several days with my parents
we continued homeward. Back to our
work and place in this world, grateful
and happy that we had the opportunity
to see a small third of this great coun-
try of ours.
(The End)
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