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THE POST, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY, 16, 1940
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PAGE THREE
THE SENTIMENTAL SIDE
By EDITH BLEZ
I have just finished reading a book which I feel sure many of you
would enjoy if you had access to it. I found “With The West In Her
Eyes” on the shelf of a local library, and I know nothing about its author,
Kathleen Strange, until I began reading about her life as a rancher’s wife,
a rancher’s wife who had never spent a day on a farm until she and her
husband began farming in Alberta, Canada, shortly after the end of the
War of 1914-17.
Kathleen Strange lived in London and during the War she was em-
ployed in one of the various war departments. One afternoon at tea-time
with a group of her associates she found herself talking to a stranger who
had taken the only vacant chair at
the table. Before she had finished
talking to the stranger she had
found a friend. At the end of the
war she married the stranger who
she had met so casually one busy
afternoon over a cup of tea. Major
Strange had been born in England,
too, but he had traveled far afield.
He was an engineer who had served
in Africa during the Boer War. He
had been in the Klondike region
during the gold-rush and had spent
some time in Australia, and twelve
years before the author of “With
The West In Her Eyes” had met him
he had settled in Hawaii. He was
the father of three boys, his wife
was dead and the children were
staying with their grandmother un-
til the war was over. Major Strange
never did get back to Hawaii be-
cause his doctor advised him to live
as much as possible out in the open,
so Kathleen Strange found herself
married to a man who had three
sons and a ranch in Canada.
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Mrs. Strange knew = absolutely
nothing about farming and if any-
one had told her she would make
a good farmer’s wife she would have
told them they were insane!
She couldn't even cook and she
had never lived anywhere but Lon-
don. When she walked into what
THE LOW DOWN FROM
HICKORY GROVE
If the truth about what
this country meeds were
dragged out into the open
and we could view it from
all sides, it would mot be
anything wery compli-
cated. It would be quite
simple. Our country needs
a rest.
We need a rest from ar-
gument and debate—and
self-anointed shepherds.
We have developed sit-
down-and-listen-it-is.
We been going through
an era where all the sim-
ple things of life and our
successes of the past are
debated and questioned.
You don’t tune-in or read
much except where some-
body is venturing an opin-
ion on what is wrong and
guaranteeing to fix it—if
elected. But on top of it
all, we keep on getting
more threadbare.
But listening to grand
was to be her home for the next
ten years she was dismayed to dis-
cover that it was nothing but a
shack and she was to be cook,
housemaid, and laundress, not only
for her husband and the three boys
but for the hired help as well! Every
night she was ready to quit and
night after night she cried herself to
sleep but slowly she worked out her
problems because Kathleen Strange
was an unusual woman. There nev-
er had been any pioneer women in
her family but she seemed to be
made of the stuff which gives people
endless courage to tackle anything.
She was strong and probably be-
cause her husband was patient and
believed in her ability, she soon be-
came one of the best ranch wives in
the surrounding community.
argument and soothing,
sweet words is like it is
with ice-cream and fruit-
cake and pie—you get fed
up—and you are hungry
for some cornbread and
spareribs.
I guess we will be al-
right mow, pretty soon—
but we had quite a ses-
ston.
Yours, with the low down,
JO SERRA.
RICOCHETS
By RIVES MATTHEWS
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| SECOND THOUGHTS
By javie aiche
Back in late 1932 and early 1933, when Prosperity was
tobogganing faster than a bobsled on Olympic sluice ice, the
average experience of your scrivener’s household was to be
called nine times a day to the back door, there to be greeted
by supplicants for a meal.
It got so that it became an absolute necessity that a cup-
ful of nickels and dimes be kept in the kitchen cupboard. Fif-
teen cents was equal to a fairly ample meal of reasonably good
food at a modest lunch-room around the corner and it was
worth that much to evade the
American unwashed.
Well, sir, just as 1933 was wrig-
gling out of the ashes of collapsed
banks and domolished business,
along about the period of introduc-
tion of wide-spread Relief and WPA
the door-knocking stopped. If col-
ored gentlemen from the South were
still finding reason and route to
get northward on a search for survi-
val this man’s habitat was getting
no calls from them. Inquiry among
the neighbors elicited information
{that the strays were missing around
their premises, too, and there was
nothing to do other than convince
oneself that sombody (maybe it was
that man in the White House) had
achieved a stop-gap for peregrinat-
ing poverty.
A welcome relief it was, mind you.
And at no-matter-what cost to the
national debt.
But things have changed.
Callers are coming again. The
average hasn't gotten up to the pre-
Roosevelt nine. Not yet. But it has
reached seven. Worse yet, the peti-
tioners for pottage are older than
their predecessors, some of them
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the nearest neighbor and Kathleen !*
Strange had much to learn from her . 2
neighbors. One morning she decided I agree with Walter Lippman,
she would go visiting on horseback. | and regret that nothing of im-
She wore her riding bresches Just portance will be done, or de-
as she did when she rode in on" cided pon, until ater: the
don. She was surprised that the : un
first woman she called on treated! elections next Fall. And I join
her so cooly. Later a delegation of | him, and other serious think- |
FOOTNOTES
By EMMONS BLAKE
For the past eighteen years my
_| being afraid of being insulted.
THE SAFETY
VALVE
This column is open to |
everyone. Letters should be
plainly written and signed. ||
Dear Editor: :
Please permit me space in your
popular paper to outline a few facts
{ which have misled the public in the |
{Back Mountain Section. There are
rumors afloat that might lead the
public to believe the American Pro-
gressive League, Inc., is a Demo-
cratic organization. This rumor is
absolutely untrue.
i As a member of the Kingston
Township Branch, No. 22, I can tes-
tify that there are no politics talked
during our meetings. We have a
few members, but we are proud of
those we do have. Anyone can
(come to our meetings now without
Members of Brarsh No, 22 are re-|
questing every good citizen in the |
Back Mountain Section to come io)
; our meetings to get acquainted with
our members and the kind of work
we are endeavoring to do. There
.is no discrimination. We are eager
to help the down and out. We are
so very old that when you see the
hopeless countenances you are ready
to believe that old Doc Townsend
has a cause about which somebody
or a lot of somebodies have got to
do something sometime—and maybe
Reforestation Practice
In 1940 Farm Program
Farmers and those interested in
the preservation of wildlife are
showing considerable interest in
the announcement just released by
the Luzerne County Agricultural
Conservation Committee that inj
1940 for the first time, any farmer
participating in the Agricultural
Conservation Program may earn an
extra reforestation allowance of $30
in addition to his regular soil-build-
ing allowance. This extra $30, the
committee announced, may be earn-
ed at the rate of $7.50 per acre
for planting certain varieties of for- |
est trees and shrubs helpful to wild-
life preservation.
A bulletin on winter sports by a
leading insurance company reports
that the Hollywood influence on
wearing shorts for outdoor winter
sports make nice rotogravure pic-
tures, but it’s an invitation to pneu-
monia and rheumatism.
very soon.
The smart boys and girls down
Washington way insist that the
course of war in Europe is what
will determine the outcome of the
draft-Roosevelt movement. But
your correspondent has at least the
ghost of an idea that if aggrieved
age and the jehus of joblessness are
as plentiful elsewhere as they are
hereabouts, then they and the effect
they have upon the people might be
a factor in the fracas. :
Like it or not (and we don’t)
those with whom speech is had are
laying the blame on our own neigh-
bor and the State's Governor. It’s
a bad time to be blaming him, in
the wake of his nation-cracking ad-
dress to the Lincolnians of Michigan
and in advance of the seeming cer-
tainty that he is going to roll into
the Republican National Convention
with all the Vandenberg delegates
trailing his own Pennsylvanian’s an
those from the South of Colonel Carl
possibility of contact with the
ONLY
YESTERDAY
Items from the columns of
The Post ten years ago this
week.
The arrest of eight youths by
Capt. John T. Ruth of Harvey's
Lake this week solved a series of
petty robberies in this section over
the last several months.
Lawrence W. Bevan of Dallas has
left the Hazard Wire Rope Co. to
become assistant to the President of
the American Electrical Works of
Providence, R. L
Ziba R. Howell, who was injured
in an automobile accident several
weeks ago, died on Saturday after-
noon at Mary Packer Hospital in
Sunbury. Mr, Howell, who was su-
pervising principal of Kingston
Township schools, had shown mark-
ed improvement in his condition,
but took a sudden turn for the
worse at the week’s end.
Two planes from the airport and
that of Ralph Grey landed on Har-
vey’s Lake last Sunday, taxied
around and finally stopped at the
Laketon corner. Several persons
went up, among them Ben Rood,
Carl Swanson, Loren Crispell and
Bill Lopasky.
Lewis Estes.
Right now there are good gam-
blers who will lay a decent bet that
the national contest is going to be
between Arthur James and Frank
Roosevelt. Who can doubt the
meaning of Senator Joe Guffey’s de-
mand for renomination? It’s im-
possible that he bases his chance of
re-election on any assurance other
than getting a hold on the Presi-
dent's coat-tails.
If the Plymouth boy who made
good for the G. O. P. is nominated
it's a matter of patriotism in Lu-
zerne County at least that he shall
be supported to the limit of vote
powers. But no one is going to be
able to explain away the sudden hu-
man reverses under his adminis-
tration. That story is bound to get
ouv. 3
Its circulators are Its vistiy
women came to the ranch to inform ers, in a prayer for the safety p,ir has been a constant source of SDeatne to the sonetal public. for
Major Strange that his wife must of this nation while it allows trouble to me. The first time it, its Fora] Sopors
dress more appropriately if she ex-jtself to be distracted by the irritated me was when it was first
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pected to take part in community
affairs. But little those women
knew about their new neighbor. She
kept right on wearing her riding
breeches and it wasn’t very long be-
fore her neighbors were glad to wel-
come her to their community affairs.
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The family didn’t get to church
as often as they would have liked.
was still a busy day because the
usual chores had to be done, and
getting breakfast for everybody at
a later hour than usual, involved
plenty of extra work and confusion.
One morning the family did get off
to church. When they arrived a few
minutes late the services hadn't
even started. Evidently the min-
ister didn’t always get around to
this particular parish so one of the
Deacons conducted the services.
When it came time for the sermon
he looked the congregation over
very carefully and much to Kath-
leen’s astonishment, the deacon
called on her husband to make the
morning address. She looked at her
husband and was amazed to find
him getting out of his seat. He
walked briskly up to the pulpit, and
while his wife stared at a man she
didn’t seem to know, Major Strange
delivered one of the finest sermons
the little church had ever heard!
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Mrs. Strange tells story after
story of her years on the ranch. It]
wasn’t very long before they built
a house to replace the shack they
had been living in. The first Christ-
mas they enjoyed in their new
home sounds like something out of |
Dickens. Mrs. Strange was afraid her
plum pudding wouldn't be perfect:
and she worried over roasting her!
first turkey but everything turned
out to perfection, and in the even-
ing the neighbors for miles around
came to their housewarming. Mrs.
Strange invited about. 30, and four
times that many came!
Mrs. Strange had always wanted
to go back to London for a visit’
and when she had been on the
ranch about eight years she did go
to England. When she reached Lon-
don she wondered why she had ever
left home! She longed for her home
in the wide open spaces. She kept
remembering how lovely the Spring
was in Canada. She didn’t tarry
long, because she soon realized that
her heart was with her family in
Canada, and she was no longer hap-
py anywhere else,
side-show of
| of the world.
Until recently I felt that Mr. !
Roosevelt was wise in keeping mum
lon the Third Term Issue. I felt
| that as soon as he opened his mouth
on the subject—especially if he an- |!
jaoinced that he would not run
again—he would be shorn of all |
Sunday on the ranch, although a |POWer, and that this country would |
day of rest from work in the fields, | then be virtually without a presi- |
dent until a new one was named
next November.
But now I think the time has ar-
| rived for Mr. Roosevelt to speak his
| piece and give the boys the hottest
piece of news they're going to put
on the wires this year. There is
{now no doubt in my mind that Mr.
| Roosevelt intends to run again. And
there is no doubt in the minds of his
official opponents, as well as hig
unofficial ones within the ranks of
the Democratic Party, that he in-
tends to run again. All that is left
for him is to pick the time to say
that he will do so, and from that
moment on, this country will again
{have a leader, because everyone, ex-
| cept a few wishful thinking Roose-
, velt-haters, believes that Mr. Roose-
velt can have a third term if he
wants it.
I am not ready to suggest, and
I will never be, that we forget the
side-show of a national election.
But if there ever was an inconven-
ient time for one, it’s going to be
next summer and fall when the rest
of the world will be shooting itself
to bits and threatening to destroy
the order of things as we know
them.
Therefore, as everyone admits Mr.
Roosevelt can win hands down, his
run again will take a lot of interest
out of the election and will, pos-
sibly, give the people of this coun-
try more time to think how we shall
adjust ourselves to a world that is
changing so rapidly about us, and
which may, if we're too occupied
with party politics, involve us in an
avalanche far worse than four more
years of Mr. Roosevelt in the White
House could ever be, the New York
Herald-Tribune and Mr. Herbert
Hoover and “Charley McCarthy”
Dewey notwithstanding!
The average one-ounce slice of
bread actually is less fattening than
a cup of lemon juice. A slice of
bread contains 65 calories; a cup of
lemon juice has 80.
politics at such !cut. I am under the impression that the A. F. of L. to have the rural
ia serious time in the history | I bit the barber. . Since then it has| WPA wage increased from $48 to
| either been hanging in my eyes or; $52 a month. Such acts as this are
giving a remarkable imitation of a the objectives of the league from
| brand new scrubbing brush.
now it is hanging in my eyes, but .|
am going to wait a while before
having it cut due to the present
weather conditions.
Lately I have noticed something
strange about my hair; it has turn-
ed about three shades darker since
I arrived in this world, which, I am
told, can be accredited to the lack
of exposure and salt water.
I don’t like to seem jealous but I
do wish my hair had a little wave
or something in it to make it look
more like a head of hair, and less
like a mop. In the past few years
all my friends have acquired very
fancy waves, while my hair has kept
right on growing straight up only
to fall straight down again.
In the summer I let my locks
grow longer because it always felt
so good to come up from a dive, toss
my head and feel the strands slap
against the back of my neck. Tl
admit that, though this was fun, my
head did look a little ratty when
dry. One summer Bill Jensen, a pi-
lot who lived near me, got tired of
seeing the “walking dustmop,” lur-
ed me into his car on the pretense
of taking me to the airport for a
free flight, and drove me to the
nearest barber, where he had it
trimmed to a neat three-quarters of
an inch. He threatened to repeat
the performance if he ever caught
me with my ears overgrown again.
I believe that I am quite accurate
in saying that ninety percent of
the boys my age want at least one
wave in their ‘hair. I was quite
pleased when I discovered a well-
announcement of his willingness to ; curved lock at the base of my skull
igbout two inches over from my
spinal cord, but my joy was short
lived for I traced the cause by pa-
| tient poking, and found that it was
just making a detour around my
ear. I guess I do need a haircut!
FREEDOM
The columnists and con-
tributors on this page are
allowed great latitude in
expressing their own opin-
ions, even when their
opinions are at variance
with those of The Post.
Right | start to finish.
We consider it a great victory for
Paul Hughey.
Chairman, Branch 22.
HARRISBURG |
WHIRLIGIG |
Harrisburg, February 15 (Special
to The Post)—When Secretary of |
Welfare, E. Arthur Sweeny and Ma- |
jor Henry C. Hill visited the ed
$3,600,000 Industrial School for |
Boys at White Hill, near here, they |
found 150 windowless cells which |
experts say would not be permitted
“even at Alcatraz.” Other defects!
in guard tower construction will |
have to be corrected. The alter-
ations will cost the State thousands!
of dollars,
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Pedestrians again were the prin-
cipal victims of motor vehicle acci-
dents in Pennsylvania in 1939, ac-
cording to a report issued by Root
enue Secretary William J. Hamilton,
Jr. Of the 1871 deaths attributable
to motor vehicles last year, 915 were
pedestrians. Total fatalities for last
year were 1871, compared to 1882
in 1938. There were 107,310 more
Pennsylvania-owned cars on the
highways in 1939 than during the
previous year, and 70,000 more gal-
lons of gasoline consumed during
1939 than in 1938.
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In opening a State-wide “Reno-
vize Campaign,” Governor Arthur
H. James said: “Everyone profits
when a man gets a job. New wage
dollars spring immediately into wide
circulation. They work harder and
longer than any other dollars.
* * * We suggest that every property
owner look at his home, store fac-
tory or farm with the critical eye
of the buyer. We suggest that each
determine the extent of repair, re-
modeling and repainting that will
be required to modernize that real
property and to have the necessary
work started at once.”
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The balance in the State general
fund at the close of business on Jan-
vary 31, 1940 was $18,348,245, as
compared to a general fund balance
of $3,870,659 for the comparative
date a year ago.
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