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THE SENTIM
By EDITH BLEZ
ENTAL SIDE
Today the new young lady in our house is having a birthday! The new
young lady who took the place of the baby we used to have has reached
the ripe old age of seventeen. She is a Senior in High School and it won't
be very long before she will be on her way to college! We hope you will
forgive us for being just a little sentimental on the seventeenth birthday
of the young person who has be-
come an adult all too quickly to
suit us.
For seventeen years we have
watched this child who was first a
helpless baby, then a noisy, rowdy
little girl, then a self-conscious ado-
lescent, grow into a real young
lady. We have known her as we
know no other person in the world.
We have been closer to. her than
any other person. we have ever
known. We seem to have lived a
second life with her.
We have never felt that we have
been a good mother because there
are so many qualities a good mother
possesses which we seem to lack but
even though we have made mis-
takes we feel that it has been a
rare privilege to raise a daughter.
We like to remember the fat cuddly
baby who seemed to climb all over
us. It is but yesterday that she
smelled so sweet after her bath.
Her fat cheeks were so pink and
she thought her toes so amusing.
Then we went through the stage
when the baby became a general
nuisance, everything had to be put
out of her reach, and her favorite
indoor sport was to get all the pots
and pans out of the kitchen closet
and scatter them where someone
was sure to fall over them; then
for the last four years we have
struggled with an adolescent who
had a difficult time in what she
considered a hostile world.
We know we have fussed and
fumed when silence would have
been much wiser. We know we have
found fault too many times but |
nevertheless the new young lady
and I have always been good
friends; and even though we are re-
luctant to leave the baby and the
adolescent so far behind it is good
to see that our new young lady is
fast becoming a fine adult.
We like this seventeen-year-old
daughter of ours because she appears
to have both feet very firmly on the
ground. Above everything else she
is fearless. She has learned at an
early age to “take it.” She dares to
be herself and yet she isn’t rude
and inconsiderate of others. She
loves the out-of-doors and she has
learned to appreciate good music
and good literature. We suspect we
are just a little partial to our new
young lady, but we think she is one
of the nicest, if not the nicest, per-
sons we have ever known!
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THE LOW DOWN FROM
HICKORY GROVE
This is a queer and fun-
ny era. You will look high
and low and find no one
who 1s sure of anything—
except that trouble 1s
lurking around the corner.
Farmers don’t know
which way t o turn.
Whether to raise more or
to raise less keeps ’em in a
quandry. Every . farmer
needs a secretary. Other-
wise, if he just farms and
raises what he can raise
best, he may do the wrong
thing and find himself in
a government jail. Every- .
body is fearful of some-
thing. It may be inflation.
It may be socialism hov-
ering over us. It don’t
seem like the U. S. A.
But, here and there,
are faint flickers of re-
turning confidence, like
where the folks there in
Illinois and Colorado and
Washington state, and
some others, are electing
themself a square-jawed
governor.
“Where there 1s life
there is hope” is a saying
as old as the hills—and
there 1s still mo law
against it, yet.
Yours with the low down,
JO SERRA
POETRY
Winter Song
By Sara Van Alstyne Allen
Sing a song of snowflakes
In the winter sky.
Sing a song of a smooth pond
And skaters gliding by.
Sing a song of sleigh bells
Ringing clear and sweet.
Sing a song of a white fence
Where tree and meadow meet.
Sing a song of icicles
Shining smooth and bright. |
Sing a song of footprints
On a path of white.
And a window glowing
With a welcoming light.
Sing a song of home again
In the winter night.
Street Lamps
by one,
the sun
flowers they bloom
gloom.
not know,
slow
a-bloom.
November Night
Listen . . .
With faint dry sound,
Like steps of passing ghosts,
The leaves, frost-crisped, break
from the trees
And fall.
—Adelaide Crapsey
The Warning
Just now,
Out of the strange
Still dusk . . . as strange as still,
A white moth flew. Why am I
JOSEPH ELICKER grown
HARRY LEE SMITH So old?
—Adelaide Crapsey
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LPanGe LINGUS GLORIOSI
Now, my tongue the mystery telling
Of the glorious Body sing
And the Blood. all price excelling
and King, =
Once on earth amongst us dwelling
Shed for this world's ransoming.
Which the Gentiles’ Lord
A
SEER
Thomas
Written by St.
Aquinas for the office of Corpus Christi in
1263, this, the greatest of all Communion hymns, is modelled on the
Pange Lingua of Fortunatus. The translation is based on the versions
of Caswall and Neale.
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Softly they take their being, one |p
From the lamp-lighter’s hand, after 4
Has dropped to dusk . . . like little | §
Set in long rows amid the growing i iXg
Who he is who lights them, I do |&2
Except that, every eve, with footfall f
And regular, he passes by my room | i
And sets his gusty flowers of light | 24
"SECOND THOUGHTS
By javie aiche
I wish I had, as a certain woman
I know of has, the flair for the fire-
side. It would please me no end to go back over the dear dead days and
pick out the joys and thrills no longer apparent, all of them probably
dated and impossible of collaboration with the confused world of today.
What would be enthralling to me would be to know the aura of satiety,
scintillant as a mantle of star-dust,
that settled about a certain little
fellow when the days had drawn to
that juncture where the sun.in des-
cent back of the blue. hills left no
twilight and made compulsory the
lighting of the big hanging lamp ov-
er the dining room table. !
What there was about that trans-
ition from natural light to artificial
illumination I couldn’t say, not hav-
ing the penetrative psychology of
Mrs. Hicks, but the suffusion that
became an intangible cocoon of con-
tentment lasted right up to the new
diversiqn, which was the first snow-
fall.
I should like to know again the
planning of a bob-sled, the building
of it, the testing of it on the foot-
hills that reached to the top of Cen-
ter street cobbles and then plunged
a full load at devil-may-care speed
all the day down to Main street.
Why, when the snow does come the
cleaners leave scarcely a vestige of
it, and what they leave is so crushed
by the wheels of traffic and so adul-
terated by oil and dropping waste
it wouldn't be of much use to a bob-
sled. And, what’s more, who makes
a bob at home anymore ?
The facts, of course, are that the
lighting of the lamps belongs to a
primeval conception of home. There
are any number of days now, even
in the summer, when the clouds
come and the sunshine fades. You
turn a switch and there you are.
And“how fast did a bob-sled go?
For the clumsy kind we had and
for the pitch of the hills that only
seemed steep, the speed probably
was never more than thirty-five
miles an hour. How sorry in com-
parison with the pace of fifty miles
legally allowed to the motorcar, and
the seventy miles an hour the
cheapest of cars will roll off when
chance offers to be free of the eyes
and tickets of the law.
Once in a while I meet a miner
with a dinner bucket. I meet no
one at all with a lunch box. The
oddity of the occasional miner and
the freedom from food preparedness
evidenced by the majority of toilers
far from home combine to suggest
what children have lost in not be-
ing able at the end of day to meet
the old man on his way back from
his shift, to grab his pail and forage
for fodder, purposely left by him in
anticipation of the search. He got
as much fun out of it as the kids
did.
And I want to know if anyone
goes hunting for mushrooms. Does
anyone ever gather the luscious
cups and miniature umbrellas of
fungi, salt them down on the lid
of the coal stove and then sip the
nectar of the gods? No one of whom
I know. Indeed, few whom I know
have the hot stove-lids. The homes
to the fretted gas lid.
Last time I met a mushroom
party it was made up of a group of
Polish-American citizens. They had
baskets of pickings,
looked at them the varieties were
they made me take a basket home.
into the garbage can.
ing of the dangerous streets, the
of speeding motors. Maybe com-
munity celebrations’ hold the an-
swer, such as the one for Hallo-
we’en; but, all too often I wonder:
fun anymore ?
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WHAT THOMAS M. LEWIS THOUGHT AND |
~ SAID OF GOVERNOR JAMES AND
ANDREW HOURIGAN A FEW
‘SHORT WEEKS AGO:
(From a public address by Thomas M.
Lewis on September 2, 1941, when he
was fighting Andrew Hourigan for the
Republican nomination for Orphans’
Court Judge—a post to which Governor
James refused to appoint Mr. Lewis.)
James is for my opponent, Judge Hourigan. I am not
surprised. However, what was disappointing to me is
the fact that State employes who, in the past, were
ordered to stay out of politics are now ordered to go
up and down the County, together with County em-
ployes, during working hours, to campaign for the :
Governor's appointee (Judge Hourigan) and to cam- : q
paign against me. Last year, during the Presidential
campaign, Governor James directed State employes
to keep out of politics yet, only a few weeks ago he
fired William Hamilton, Jr., Secretary of Revenue :
and a member of his cabinet, because of political ac- ad ob
tivity in Philadelphia, his own County.
“Now, the Governor, himself, is taking an active part
in Judge Hourigan's campaign and is ordering State
employes to go down the line for Judge Hourigan.
State employes are used in State-owned buildings
with light and janitor service paid for by you, the
taxpayers, for political meetings on behalf of my
opponent (Judge Hourigan.)
Further, in his public attacks on Governor James and Judge Houri- Rr A ¢
gan, Mr. Lewis charged, and we quote Mr. Lewis; : i
“State employes, during working hours, and at the
expense of the taxpayers are tearing down and de-
stroying my cards along the public highways and at
the same time they are posting cards of my opponent
(Judge Hourigan) on State owned property as well x
as on the poles along the highway. 3
“Highway employes, on your time, are smearing my
cards with tar and oil purchased by you taxpayers
for the State roads. Are such tactics American?
If you travel the highways you can daily see State :
highway employes working against me and formy = = hy
opponent (Judge Hourigan). | ;
“] AM NOT BLAMING THESE EMPLOYES. THEIR
HEARTS MUST BE WITH ME BUT THEY. ARE DI-
RECTED BY THEIR SUPERIORS IN AN UN-AMERI-
CAN CAMPAIGN!”
The above are but a few of the thoughts pub-
licly and only recently expressed by Mr.
Lewis against Governor James and Andrew he
Hourigan.
The private, personal and off-record pieasan-
tries and acrimonies thathave been ex-
changed between Mr. Lewis and Judge Houri-
gan would make interesting but not delight- a
ful reading.
HAS MR. LEWIS SINCE CHANGED HIS OPINION OF GOVERNOR
JAMES, ANDREW HOURIGAN, HIS PRESENT RUNNING MATE,
AND THE REPUBLICAN COUNTY LEADERS?
WILL MR. LEWIS NOW REPEAT OR RETRACT THE CHARGE HE
MADE PUBLICLY ON SEPTEMBER 2nd OF THIS YEAR THAT... *
“THE REPUBLICAN ORGANIZATION OF LUZERNE COUNTY HAS
SOLD PRINCIPLE AND PARTY DOWN THE RIVER.”
LUZERNE COUNTY CITIZENS OF ALL PARTIES WHO BELIEVE IN
ELECTING TO THE LUZERNE COUNTY BENCH MEN WHOSE PRI-
VATE LIVES AND PUBLIC RECORDS ARE ABOVE REPROACH OR
SUSPICION WILL VOTE THE STRAIGHT DEMOCRATIC TICKET.
John Hilary Bonin
for Orphans’ Court
Robert Bierly
for County Controller
J. Harold Flannery
for Common Pleas Court
Harry Schaub
for Clerk of the Courts
Peter Margie
for Prothonotary
Patrick Finn
for Jury Commissioner
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