THE LISTENING POST
By THE VETERAN
Pots go right on calling the kettles black. The latest materialization of
this absurd political habit was widely publicized after District Attorney
Leon Schwartz had addressed the first rally of the Luzerne County Repub-
Schwartz denounced, and asked Republicans to destroy, the impli-
cation of the Democratic county ticket posters. Done in a beautiful array
of the national colors and with a
licans.
plea for support of Defense, the slate
cards are really splendid in design.
They must be good, or they would
not be denounced by the opposition.
Take it for granted that the Dem-
ocrats were alive to the possibility
of trading-in on the national im-
pulse to join the international sui-
cide. But, what did the Republicans
do? They borrowed the “V” cam-
paign for their county posters. Lib-
erty Magazine borrowed it too. Lib-
erty published in its latest issue, a
cover with the arms of Adolph Hit-
ler spread up from his picayune
head, so that the arms perfectly
formed the “V” of victory. But, in
the six weeks that must elapse be-
tween acceptance of a cover design
and the actual appearance in the
hands of the public, the “V” page
had come to represent the Hitler
conquest in Russia, which was ex-
actly what Liberty didn’ t want it to
suggest.
The Republican cards with the
“Vy” design also are an attempt to
trade-in on American pressure to-
ward war and all it connotes. So, it
is simply another case of name-call-
ing. Both parties would be very
silly, indeed, if they failed to note
the ttends and take advantage of
them, If there is differentiation at
all, between the Unterrified and the
G. O. P. it is on the side of the
. New Dealers; because, after all, they
are making the war, aren’t they?
And with all the help that a ma-
jority of Republicans can give them,
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Fear Light Vote
__If there is consensus in the minds
of politicians, in Luzerne County, it
is on the side of fear, and what to
do about it, Politicians big and lit-
tle are afraid that there is going to
be a very light vote, even though
the people face a judicial test that
may change the party majority of
the Bench, and choice of officers
who deal with all the court business
of the people and with the stop-
watch on the race to county default
and bankruptcy.
Fear of a light vote is tinctured
by hope. The Republicans to large
degree have remote consolation in
the possibility that a light vote may
mean a G. O. P. conquest, since on
the side of the Republicans there
are more jobs, better organization,
more direct means of inducing favor.
The Republicans build from the bot-
tom up, when organization is to be
constructed. The Democrats nomi-
nate the very finest tickets, then
forget that county battles are won
by the boys and girls who get out
in the townships, boroughs and cit-
ies to elect burgesses, tax collectors
and school directors.
So, a light vote ought to favor the
Republicans. Any trend toward a
heavy vote should be motivated
from belief in President Roosevelt,
and in the necessity of arming the
provinces with sympathetic small
governments, whether of the home
community or the collective county.
One would suppose, then, that the
Republicans would seek to keep
down the vote; but, that would be
against the forensics, the frenetics,
the enthusiasms. Political speakers
must make speeches, they must
tour, they must coax and cajole. All
of which will help to get out the
vote.
A layman looking at the scene
without undue expectations either
way will tell you that it is going to
be hard to get out the vote, unless
something happens. All the glory-
burners have done so far is to leave
the public stubbornly apathetic to
what's coming. Even when it comes,
there will need to be a weight of
happening back of it to get the av-
erage citizen sentimentally em-
broiled. The average citizen feels
as though something is being pulled
and that the great likelihood is that
it is his leg.
Wallis Speaks Up
The Junior John B. Wallis, Coun-
ty Treasurer by grace of Republican
choice, went all the way out as a
critic of his party this week. In
private conversation the genial and
highly religious Mr. Wallis had said
that the people of Luzerne County
would be frantically silly if they
permitted his party to get control
of all the county business offices.
In particular he mentioned the Con-
troller’s office, because there is
where budgets are scanned, recom-
mendations made, audits performed
against possible extravagance.
Then Wallis made his opinion
wholly public. In a letter to the
County Commissioners he cited
their own resolutions as carried in
the minutes of their own secretaries,
to prove that on the one hand they
were plunging Old Luzerne into de-
fault and bankruptcy, and on the
other hand were resolving two or-
ders so opposite to each. other as to
be impossible for him to obey. One
resolution recited the borrowing of
a million dollars on tax anticipation
to be paid back December first. The
other resolution ordered the Treas-
urer to transfer tax funds to meet
the due dates of bonded debts and
interest charges.
In his letter received at this
week’s business meeting of the
Commissioners, the Treasurer cited
the pledge by which Penn Mutual
Insurance Company extended a loan
of one million dollars. The pledge
a million dollars on tax anticipation,
was that all incoming 1941 taxes
would be deposited in Miners Nat-
ional and Second National banks to
pay off the loan on December first,
with whatever interest charges were
thereto appended. The second reso-
lution sought diversion of the same
taxes to meet the bonded debts and
interest coupons. To do both, said
Wallis, is impossible.
So, he informed the County Com-
missioners that he will default on
the bonds and coupons and pay off
the loan. If necessary, he said, he
also will default on the November
and December payrolls of county of-
ficers and employers. He fixed the
blame directly on the Commission-
ers for failing to provide a sinking
fund against the duedates of bonds
and coupons.
No Word From Fredna
No one hereabouts seems to know
just when Fred and Edna Kiefer are
to get home from Alaska. What
brought the matter to this vet-
eran’s mind was that no less than
three judicial candidates want to
meet Fred and his Dallas friends
before election day. The hunting
Kiefers ran a-foul of War Defense
on their way in; then they ran plumb
into Aid to Russia on the way out. (
A trip that should have been con-
summated in early October gives
promise of indeterminate extension.
A whole week the Kiefers were
held back in Seattle, awaiting a
boat to Seward in Alaska. Then,
when they had spent five weeks
garnering white mountain sheep and
Kodiak bear from the thumb-out of
our far northwestern possession
they discovered there was no as-
surance as yet of a passage back to
the States. Alaska waters and the
Pacific Coast were bristling with
cargo boats carrying all manner of
munitions and material of warfare. J
Abandons Politics ?
As .a stormy petrel of politics,
Paul Winter of Trucksville keeps on
making the news. Years have passed
since Paul led the legions of the
Klan down Wyoming avenue, in a
grand car implemented by uni-
formed servitors. From then forward
Paul: Winter alternated as a New
Deal field man on State pay or as a
county servant attached to the Re-
publican payroll. He resigned his
latest job, tax clerk to the Luzerne
County Commissioners, It is under-
stood he has made a better connec-
tion with a national advertising
firm,
In The Sixth
You can get a bet on two radic-
ally different surmises as to what
this Sixth District is going to doin
the forthcoming elections. Men who
gamble on the people’s whims have
one construction of thought along
the line of a split result, with Flan-
nery breaking through to carry the
top vote from a Republican strong-
hold. There is a tendency also to
favor the chances of Controller Rob-
ert Bierly and Prothonotary Peter
Margie, both of whom have done
fine jobs.
But, you also may gamble on the
proposition that the Sixth will cars
ry a straight Republican majority,
for all hands, including Thomas M.
Lewis to succeed Judge B. R. Jones
and Judge Andrew Hourigan to re-
main where Governor James put
him, as President Judge of the
Eleventh District Orphans Court.
One thing to be said for Flannery is
that he is striving with might and
main to go up with his running-
mate, John Hilary Bonin.
Birth Certificate
No one is applauding the decis-
ion of Director Tom Williams of the
State Bureau of Vital Statistics, to
prevent professional messengers get-
ting birth certificates for clients at
a charge above the legal fee. The
legal fee is one dollar for certifica- |
tion of birth in 1906 or later; with |
$2.50 for entering and certifying a
birth in the years earlier than 1906.
But citizens should remember that |
they can get birth certificates in |
their own county courts and Reg-
ister’s office if they were born
earlier than 1906.
Tom Williams was a Wilkes-Barre
councilman, a bad one as politics
goes. His nemesis was John Nobel,
honest man. The Bureau of Vital
Statistics is a thumb in the eye of
the James Administration. This old
man of the prints wrote a letter to
that bureau seven and one-half
months ago and is still waiting for
an answer. Men whose jobs depend
on their birth records have lost the
jobs for weeks and months while
waiting to prove their American
birthright. Tom Wiiliams might
have done worse then to let the
professional messengers stay in bus-
iness. They were cutting down de-
lays.
Dorothy James
Gossip ran wild about Wyoming
Valley at week-end when it was dis-
covered that Miss Dorothy James
had been spending an unscheduled
vacation at the home of her secre-
tary, Miss Jean Griffin, in Ashely.
The tongue-wagging lashed on the
proposition that, displaced as First
Lady by a second marriage of the
Governor, her father, Miss James
was not exactly thrilled by the
demotion.
If there have been better state-
ments in ‘support of stepmothers,
better than the one Dorothy James
made at the time of the ceremony,
and after at the reception, this old
THE POST, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1941
hack never has read it. The charm-
ing young lady who saw her father
through almost three years of his
administration was composed in ac-
ceptance of her new mama and even
elegant in her praises of the fine
traits of the new First Lady.
What Miss James was doing in
Wyoming Valley on her unan-
nounced vacation was a matter of
personal relationship and sympathy.
The nurse who had looked after her
mother, and cared for other mem-
bers of her family, Miss Jean
Ichter, was ill. And Miss James was
staying close at hand to see to it
that she was on the road to recov-
ery. She sought no attention. Fact
is, Miss James traveled about in the
car of her secretary, with Miss Grif-
fin at the wheel. Miss Griffin said
that she would put the car in stor-
age and both she and Miss James
would be back in Harrisburg this
week,
HUNTSVILLE
Miss Betty Rood and Miss Gene
Weiss spemt last Sunday visiting
Miss Rood’s parents in Muhlenburg.
Rummage Sale
W. S. C. S. will conduct a rum-
mage sale in the Lord Building,
Main street, Luzerne, October 30,
31 and November 3.
Antique Show
Jackson Grange will sponsor an
antique show in the Grange Hall,
Saturday evening, October 25. The
show will be open to any. exhibitor
who has old relics to display. Special
awards and a program will be pre-
sented. Refreshments will be sold.
Give Wiener Roast
Miss Mary Mekeel, Mys. Richard
Owens and Mrs. Richard Rice enter-
tained recently at a wiener roast
honoring their brothe,r Charles of
Pittsburgh, who left for Camp Lee,
Monday. Present were: Mr. and Mrs.
Fred Harloss, Mr. and Mrs, Stanley
Case, -Mr. and Mrs. Sherman Kun-
kle, Mr. and Mrs. Russell Coolbaugh,
Mr. and Mrs. George Taylor, Mr.
and Mrs, Emmet Moore, Mr. and
Mrs. Walter Mekeel, Mr. and Mrs.
George L. Rice, Mrs. Russell Cease,
Mrs. Elmer Labaugh, Rhoda Thomas,
May Smith, Jane Owens, Lois Jean
Taylor, Miss Stark, Glen Case, Paul
Walters, Harold Rice, Howard Rice,
Jack Tribler, Harold Coolbaugh and
Bobby Rice.
SWEET VALLEY
Misses Thelma Updyke and Bess
Klinetob spent last week-end with
Mr. and Mrs. Boyd Smith at Pot-
ters Mills.
The small son of Mr. and Mrs.
Joseph Natt has returned from
Moses Taylor Hospital.
Larue, son of Mr. and Mrs. Wil-
lard Sutliff, submitted to an opera-
tion at the Nesbitt Hospital last
week,
Miss Neva Hagenbaugh R. N., has
left for Flint, Michigan to visit her
sister.
Mr .and Mrs. Herbert Ross have
purchased a home at Bloomingdale.
Mr .and Mrs. Ralph Naugle of
Harrisburg recently spent a few
days with their parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Harry Hoover and Mr. and
Mrs. Torence Naugle.
Dop-In Party
Mrs. Parris Callander was hostess
at a drop-in party last Tuesday eve-
ning. Present were: Mrs. Lucy Kel-
ler, Mrs. Hattie Edwards, Mrs. Leon
Dodson, Naomi Dodson, Mrs. Charles
Long, Mrs. Loren Cragle, Rev. Ira
Button and Mr. and Mrs. Parris Cal-
lander.
Dallas Alumni
Twenty-six members of the Dallas
Borough Alumni Association met at
the high school Tuesday evening to
make plans for a Hallowe'en party,
Thursday, October 30. Committee:
Rhoda Thomas, Rhoda Veitch, Gert-
rude Kintz, Bill Baker, Dick Major
and Roy Verfaille. Next meeting
will be held at 8 o'clock, November
11th.
City Dweller Thrills To
Fall Beauty Along Highway
Route From Tunkhannock To
Dallas Without Equal In State
By Mgrs. T. M. B. Hicks JR.
Each October, when the foliage
begins to turn, I take a trip along
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| by this time any driver ought to
If you have ever lived in a sec-
tion of the country where water is |
at a premium you can better appre-
cidte the lovely little brooks and
streams hereabouts. I notice that
some enterprising folks are even!
having themselves a lake Whats!
no lake grows before.
The only thing I really miss sol
this scenery is the somber back-
drop of white pine to bring out the
pastels. There seems to be ‘compar- |
atively little dark evergreen growth
to provide contrast to the flaming
hardwoods. ®ut in the Pacific
Northwest, the situation is reversed.
There is plenty of pine and Douglas-
fir and redwood, but no maples and
brilliant hickories. You don’t realize
what it is that you miss until all of
a sudden it dawns on you—no au-
tumn coloring. Nothing but dense
forests, lofty and remote, where no
sun filters through, a fitting foot-
note to the glacier-crowned Cas-
cades, but too silent and withdrawn
to seem homelike.
Scenery around here is much
easier to live with. The hills are not
too high, the woods are nice gentle
woods, the streams, run more
quietly. Cleared fields look as if
they had been cut out of the mass
of colors with a pair of sharp scis-
sors. Comfortable red barns, well-
kept houses, stone fences, familiar
little brooks.
A gracious place to live.
The Dearest Thing
A woman is the dearest thing
That nature gave to man.
She’s mothered him and babied him |
Since first the world began. :
Route Six, straight across the state
of Pennsylvania, turn north at War-
ren and pay a visit to Chautaqua
County, New York State. Until this
year I have always felt that the
most rewarding . scenery and the
best and most vivid coloring lay at
the far end of the road, and cross-
ing the High Alleghenies; but since
taking the new route from Kings-
ton to Tunkhannock instead of the
older one along the river, I am be-
ginning to be doubtful.
Each curve in the new road shows
a more beautiful picture than the
last. There is a stone barn with a
stone ‘silo, situated high on a hill
about a mile and a half east of
Beaumont. Somebody with an eye
to a view ought to buy that barn
and revamp it into a summer home.
It would be hard to find a better
location, near. enough to town and
to a ‘main-travelled highway to
make it easily accessible, far enough
from town to be away from the
crowd, high enough to insure
sparkling days and cool nights.
There is a truly remarkable view
of the surrounding country to be
had from the jumping-off-place at
the top of the steep and rocky road
which connects Beaumont with the
road running between Noxen and
Harvey's Lake. The last time I drove
over the road, some two or three
days ago, it resembled nothing so
much as the dry bed of a mountain
torrent, but it was worth the climb.
The car hiccoughed and spit, the
springs protested and the passen-
gers hit the roof going over one
boulder, but the view from the top
compensated. It pays to get this
particular view just before sunset,
when the coloring is changing fast
and the blue shadows begin to
march across the hills to the West.
Going down the other side of the
hill is just as bad as coming up, but
She mends his clothes and cooks his
meals
And caters to each whim.
Yes, woman is the dearest thing
know what to expect. There is a That ever came to him.
steep pitch toward the bottom, a
narrow bridge, and then a sudden
upturn to meet the Noxen road.
The ‘thing to do is to lean on the
horn and shoot up the incline as
fast as possible, hoping that no-
body will collide with you at the
top. This road would give a flat-
country driver from Delaware or
Tide-Water Virginia acute heart-
failure, but people who are accus-| Ah, truly she’s the dearest thing.
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On the stretch of road leading
from Dallas to Huntsville Dam there
is a succession of the best-looking
and best-kept stone fences in the
district. High and wide and solidly
constructed, they have doubtless
stood for many years and look
equal to a couple hundred more. In
She never misses at a sale;
She wants her own coupe.
She never likes to wear again
The dress she wears today.
She “charges” things, he pays ny
them
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