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SECOND THOUGHTS
By javie aiche
Seven weeks ago it was that a courier and herald from Hunlock
Creek arrived at the cubicle of your correspondent to make known the
desire of Postmaster Stanley Croop that one day this column might rear
itself from the corner that marks the confluence of the creek and the
Susquehanna.
The visitor would see to it that the populace should be
apprised of the product wherein these lines are published, to the great
enhancement of The Post and the erudition of its patrons.
For six weeks now Stanley Croop has been all too ill.
there was affliction of a community
come antipathetic to nature and its
peer. For as many presentments as®
there are personalities within five
miles of the postoffice Stanley Croop
in the years that made him first
citizen of Hunlock Creek has found
causes requiring helpful consolation,
and to all of them he has given a
multiplicity of ministrations.
He wouldn't want you to know
about all that. Such would have
been farthest from his thoughts,
especially at the time he relayed in
this direction an invitation to call
around and make report of what
was going around in the rus in urbe
of which he has become the hub.
There would have been something
to say about the centenarian hotel
of which his octogenarian father so
long was proprietor and where now
Mine Host Joe and Signorina Amelia
Farini Virtue serve meals that are
worth going out of your way to get.
With spaghetti, of course, and
Michelob, Miller High Life and
Budweiser.
The corner store would be inviting
to investigation. It is a renascence
of the first venture of John Wana-
maker, because in it you can buy
anything from tires to thread, from
electric washers to delectable delica-
tessen, from angel cakes to analgesic
balm—*“and if you don’t see what
you want just name it and we'll
go get it.” You find there gasoline
and canned gas, cheese and chest-
warmers. Run the mercantile gamut
for yourself.
Mostly, though, you find no one
who is unknown to Stanley Croop
and none of human form but that in
an hour of need the expression of a
request has been the sesame to ful-
filment. The postmaster and first
citizen of Hunlock Creek could write
the saga of every family that votes
in the whole rural district, but he
would forget to remember that
much of it should begin and end in
his own benefactions.
Governor Arthur James was only
three minutes before-hand when
finally in a Saturday of driving rains
your correspondent got around to
the Croop home. Congressman Har-
old Flannery was third to arrive.
It was no coincidence that the Press
and the most conspicuoue of public
figures in Luzerne County, as well
as the most important, should have
come together there on the Susque-
hanna Trail. Should you tell off the
callers since Stanley fell ill you
would have practically a compend-
jum of all who count. Any of the
proletariat will say so. They ought |
to know, too, because at any minute |
of the day they can tell you what
only Miss Durkin, the nurse, should
know, all about the progress or lack
of it in the illness of a great citizen. |
Lacking the prescience of the
pathologist your reporter fails of
suggesting a time when it will be
possible to gather about a counter
in the general store, beside a service
pump or within beck and call of the
corner Boniface and discuss Ameri-
can trends with the postmaster.
Two Weeks in a hospital and five
weeks in bed at home have done
little more than engender doubt of
what might be done about it when
a man never before a patient sud-
denly becomes chronic to grave in-
disposition.
Why is it, one asks, that health
to challenge comparison departs the
stalwart frame of him who never
has known a bad habit? What is
the genesis of disease that it festers
in the seats of comfort, content-
ment and good conscience? And
how explain that a doer of good
should become heir to evil not of
his own design? The Postmaster
of Hunlock Creek is a young man,
as years themselves are counted,
but even the gloom of a drenched
Saturday could not obscure the pain
that in him now is resident.
May God speed his recovery or
even give to it a beginning!
HARRISBURG
WHIRLIGIG
Governor Arthur H. James will
speak over a nation-wide radio hook-
up Friday evening 10:30 (EST),
the Governor’s address will be “The
Present Crisis”.
Pennsylvania Republicans in -
creased their lead over the Dem-
ocrats to well over a half-million
since last November, according to an
unofficial survey made by the As-
sociated Press. Total registration in
the State, according to the AP is:
Republicans, 2,572,110; Democrats
2,046,129; Others 57,383. This is a
gain of almost 200,000 by Republi-
cans, a loss of 170,000 for the Dem-
ocrats.
———
The Republicans counted almost
100,000 of their gain in the two big
counties, Philadelphia and Alle-
gheny. In Philadelphia they in-
creased by 64,358, while the Demo-
crats dropped 23,193. In Allegheny
the GOP jumped 26,585, the gain
being almost exactly the number
And if ever
by reason of a neighbor having be-
negations, then Hunlock Creek is its
THE LOW DOWN FROM
HICKORY GROVE
We kinda been in the
habit of thinking our U.
S. Senate is maybe a little
less flighty than ower in
the House of Representa-
tives. But that idea is
commencing to look dubi-
ous.
This woting of more
money to the farmers than
was even asked for by our
Post-Graduate spenders,
brother, they out-did
themselves. That is wvot-
ing. Looks half-way like
the Old Boys there in the |
Senate are coming down
with the Potomac fever.
They been exposed to it
there, in old Spendthrift
center, for several years.
But if they were to cock
an ear towards the coun-
try, they will hear some
rumblings.
Over in the House,
where they must get elect-
ed or re-elected every two
years, versus six years in
the Senate, they know
what is going om back
home.
Some of our care-free
Senators are gonna wake
up with a start and in a
cold sweat some morning,
like a small boy, at 2 A.
M., who has been nibbling
too free on green apples—
at a picnic.
Yours with the low down,
JO SERRA.
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VALVE
This column is open to
| everyone. Letters should be
plainly written and signed.
Editor:
Will you please permit me to vin-
dicate myself from the dirty, scan-
dalous and very un-neighborly piece
which was printed in your issue of
The Post as of April 20°?
First, let me say that as an op-
ponent, Mr. Goss was very cour-
teous to me. I have heard no ill
reports of any nature against me
and I am sure he can say same of
me. I also believe he knew nothing!
about the miserable falsehoods |
which were in The Post over Joseph
Davis’ signature.
Mr. Davis has been a friend and
neighbor of mine for about 10 years.
In all that time I do not think he
has ever had cause for complaint
against me. I have been a friend
in sickness and in death to him.
As to the charges that Mr. Goss!
got me painting jobs after being let |
out of my job on the County High-
way when the new regime took
over and thereby keeping me stead-
ily employed, I wonder where they
were. I did paint his son’s new
home but the job came through the
building contractors and not Mr. |
Goss. i
Now as to my job on the County
Road and Bridge Department, Mr.
John MacGuffie was responsible for |
that, along with the prestige of
friends of Wyoming Valley who
rooted for me. I lost the election,
but Mr. Davis will never know how
many friends he lost, nor how
many I gained by his unfriendliness.
This is for the benefit of those
who may have thought I was a very
heartless wretch who does not ap-
preciate a favor done him. I de-
sire to thank all friends who voted
for me. Also my heartfelt thanks |
for the use of cars and personal
work.
Merle Shaver.
Luzerne there was a turnover of
about 17,000 favorable to the Re-
publicans.
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Commenting on the registration
statistics, Republican State Chair-
man James F. Torrance said: “The
Republican Party’s gain in register-
ed voters since the November, 1939,
election, reflects accurately the
trend, not only in Pennsylvania
but throughout the Nation. Reports
from all parts of the State to State
headquarters carry one dominant
note. This is that the people are
determined to vote for a change in
the Federal Government at Wash-
ington. I am absolutely sincere when
I say, even at this early day, Penn-
sylvania will roll up at the coming
November election, a surprisingly
large plurality for the Rebublican
Presidential nominee and our State
ticket. The Republican lead in reg-
istration will increase further when
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OF LIVING
— By SUSAN THAYER -
She had been a great lady wl
Budapest, mistress of a gracious |
house. But a great-grandmother of
her husband had been “non Aryan.”
So one day, last summer, they left
Hungary on twenty-four hours’ no-
tice. Now she lives in a one-room
apartment with a view of the tall
Empire State building across roof
tops strung with washings.
It is not a large room and the fur-
niture is limited to essentials. A
couch that opens up to make a bed,
a chest of drawers, two chairs and
a table. There are none of the min-
utiae of living which people invari-
ably collect after a time. She’s only
been in “Amerika” for seven months.
And these haven't been months for
collecting. Money isn’t easy to earn
when people are struggling with a
new language and strange environ-
ment. But she loves America.
“I feel, since I am here, as if I
had been born again. There is some-
thing new here; something even in
the air you breathe that is differ-
ent. It is full of hope. Anything may
happen.”
She looked out of her bare win-
dow toward the great skyscraper
shining in the afternoon sunlight.
“In Hungary I lived summers at the
foot of a beautiful mountain which I
often looked at. Here I look at the
Empire State building and it has
more to say to me than that moun-
tain ever did. In Hungary we thought
of our Past. For years we hadn’t
dared to think of our Future. But
here . ...”
She spread out her palms in a
gesture of receiving. “Here many
things will happen in the Future.
Good things!”
“Is it because the people here are
different ?”’ I asked her. “Or is it the
country itself 7”
“It’s the people. Even those I met
on the ship coming over were differ-
ent. Not only kind. And Americans
are very kind. But all of you have a
sort of—what is the word—assu-
rance. And that is because of the
country I believe, It is so big; so
complete. You are not ever afraid,
the way people in Europe are afraid.
You are like a child whose mother
is standing right behind it. He
knows he is safe, so he is happy,
and relaxed and sure of what he
does.”
“And your husband, does he like
it here as well as you do?” I asked.
“Not so much, perhaps. He re-
members the business -he had in
Budapest. It was very good.” And
then, with a kind of fierceness in
her voice, she went on: “But I.don’t
care! I would rather live in this one
little room and know that whatever
business he does build will be his | °
for the rest of his life; that under!
the American way no one will in-:
terfere or tell him how he must run
it or take it away from him. It is
protected by this.”
She reached over to a pile of
books on the floor and picked up a
pamphlet which she handed to me.
"This is the thing that makes me
love America more than anything
else and some day, after I've read it
many more times, it will give me
the kind of assurance you have.”
I took the little book, wonder-
ingly. It was a copy of the Constitu-
tion of the United States!
our registration drive gets under
way this Summer. This is a Re-
publican year, and a big one.”
The man was mad |
But now he’s glad; |
He tried his luck
With a Classified Ad.
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PVE MET THE FOLKS YOU'VE
READ ABOUT, by Labert St. Clair
(Dodd, Mead, $2.50)
The way to write is to write and
then to write some more, we have
been told these many years. Now,
along comes Labert S. Clair, scrib-
bler, and public relations counselor
extraordinary, with the equally bald |
assertion that anyone who really de- |
sires to write can do it.
So, embryo authors, budding
journalists, go to it with vim and
THE SENTIM
By EDITH BLEZ
(He always located me by the sound
Ae
I have a boy friend! He isn’t
him the right answers, but we get
I can look out the window and seegq
two short legs racing across the
back lawn. My small boy friend
is always in a hurry! Sometimes if
I don’t see him coming I know he
is on the way because he usually
pulls his red wagon along the pave-
ment, and I can hear it long before
I hear a small hand fumbling at the
door knob. He doesn’t ring the
bell—he can’t quite reach it—and
I am afraid if he could reach it he
wouldn't take the trouble to ring
it because doors to him are just
something which keep him outside.
He would much rather push his way
in, rather than take a chance on no
one answering the bell. That's what
I like about him. He has no in-
hibitions whatsoever! The world is
his and he makes the most of every
opportunity. He hasn’t learned yet
that there are rules and regulations
in this man-made world, and he
doesn’t know anything at all about
them. He decided long ago that
the world is his oyster!
Up until very recently my new-
found friend didn’t come to see me
when he came across the back lawn
in such a hurry. He came to see
the cat, and if he couldn’t locate
the cat I usually discovered him
standing with boy hands behind his
back, waiting very patiently for the
clock to strike. Every time he pass-
ed through the dining room he
he couldn't find me downstairs I
could hear him chattering to him-
self as he came slowly up the stairs.
of the typewriter keys. After he
found me, his chatter stopped al-
together and he always seemed per-
fectly contented to stand by my
side and watch my two over-worked
fingers pound out a column.
But now things are a little differ-
ent. My small boy friend has grown
so much in the past few months
that he goes to a nursery school |
vigor provided you have the will to
see it through. Pad and pencil are |
not enough. |
Although the St. Clair story, in
the main, is a racy, fast-paced and
colorful account of men and affairs
from Veedersburg, Indiana, the
birthplace, where his
eventful newspaper career began,
to Washington, D. C., where he
| hobnobbed with all the big-wigs, the
book contains a wealth of practical
'advice for those yearning to do or
die on the altar of Journalism. Much
profit is in store for them, if they
are sufficiently wise to appreciate
the good counsel that awaits them |
between the covers of this volume! |
For the reading public, “I've Met |
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orama of the national scene from
shortly after the turn of the cen-
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write interestingly.
The result is a behind-the-scenes
narrative continuously arresting in
its revelations. It contains much
previously unpublished material
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present, who have guided the des-
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the naming of candidates at the |
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thwarted ambitions in high places.
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would be to dull their edge for the
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and he doesn’t have so much time
to visit. But he does manage to
get over at least once each day. I
find myself listening for that small
fumbling hand. Lately it has hap-
pened that each time he has come I
have been busy in the kitchen,
One day last week I asked him if |
wanted to watch me make a
pudding. He agreed very readily
and seemed to forget completely
about the clock, and the dinner
gong. I really felt quite flattered
because he climbed up on the kit-
chen stool and began talking to me |
at a great rate. I suspect he was
telling me about’ school because
every now and then I could catch
snmething about a duck, or a wind-
mill or a Lird Then the conversa-
tion seemed to aiif* to trains. My
boy friend has a deep-rooted gassion
for trains and every sentence he
utters has a train in it somewhere.
I am sorely afraid his small world
is peopled with trains of all shapes
and sizes, and the sound of a train
in the distance is music to his small
ears.
He looks so small as he sits so
quietly on the high kitchen stool
and he chats in his childish way as
if he really had something important
to say. I ask him a lot of questions
but he never quite gets around to
answering them, nevertheless I find
high, and he does lots of silly, foolish things, and even though he is only
three years old I have discovered that we speak the same language! We
' don’t seem to need words to carry on our conversations.
Goodness knows most of the time I can’t tell exactly what he is
talking about and I feel quite certain there are many times I don’t give
along remarkably well when all the
disadvantages are taken into consideration.
sounded the dinner gong and if |
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very old and he doesn’t stand very
Usually about once a day
ONLY
YESTERDAY
Items from the columns of s
The Post ten years ago this
week.
While there were no bands to
play or mayors to throw out the first
ball, there were plenty of thrills
for the fans when Dallas defeated
Beaumont in the opening game of
the Rural League last Sunday.
Township schools has been marred
fever.
The funeral of William Bulford
was held from the late home, Wilkes-
Barre, Wednesday. Mr. Bulford, who
began his career as a blacksmith in
Dallas, was one of the leading citi-
zens of this section.
Dallas is not so bad off as some
of the larger towns. Jack Gordon re-
with news that unemployed are of-
fering their. services there for 15
cents and 20 cents an hour.
Dr. C. Murray Turpin’s candidacy
for congress is swinging along in
fine shape. His opponent,
Kmetz, has strong labor support.
baseball team defeated the Dallas
Township nine, 6 to 4. Swingle
pitched for K. T. H. S. and Joe Piatt
did the receiving.
Marvin Elston isthe owner of a
fine young colt, the first he has ever
owned, and he is very proud of it.
By the looks of the Sordoni Trail
the name will have to be changed to
“Billboard Row”. .
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my small friend a great comfort. He
is never dullsand I never have to en-
tertain him and we always seem to
find something to laugh about. In
fact many times we laugh at each
other! We laugh because it is good
to laugh. We don’t exactly under-
stand each other's words but we
have lots of fun and I really feel
quite flattered that he spends as
much time as he does with me. We
are worlds apart but we seem to
he doesn’t grow up too quickly and
forget how to laugh. I love his in-
fectious laugh and his greeting is
much more worth while than most
of the Good Mornings which come
my way.
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