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Editorially Speaking:
Come See Us
We wish Mr. Roosevelt would take a day off now and
then. It would do him good. He must be tired of all those
experts crowding his office down there in Washington.
We wish he could run away from those pestering con-
ferences just long enough to visit quietly with folks who
don’t know it all . . . folks who have to learn about this
war from the confused headlines in their daily papers.
We think Mr. Roosevelt would enjoy it, We can just
see him now, serious-like talking with the fellows in the
back room at Evans Drug Store or sitting in one of the
comfortable rockers on Mrs.
Cease’s front porch talking
about her boy, Dick, who was killed in a plane over Java.
We know those are the places he'd stop at if he had his
way . .
. and before he got done he’d probably drop in at
: a. > .
Jim Oliver's to see how automobile dealers are coming
along in small towns . .
best fishing is around here.
. and maybe ask Jim where the
Maybe he’d drop in at the
Post and offhand like give us a little advice on our unem-
ployment reports as he sat
in our cramped little office
reading the names of the boys from Back of the Mountain
who are ready to fight all over the world. If he could
just keep away from the Democrats and the delegations,
the Chamber of Commerce committees, the telephones and
the politicians for a little while we know he’d enjoy it . . .
and the country would be better off.
We know it’s a big job for a man to run a war espec-
ially when he has to learn everything from experts and
Gallup polls while all the letters from common people
are read and answered by secretaries, . . .
and little folks
that call at his office are pushed away by the secret service
as though they had the plague.
If he could just get away for a day, he’d go back to the
job refreshed and confident
that we can lick the world.
He’d make some changes, too, because he’d know that the
common people are back of this war . .
. willing to work
and fight and die if he’d toss over all the bureaus and
experts and alphabets and just say the word with his old
vim and fire. If he’d just say there aren’t going to be any
more strikes . . .
do this, now do it”
America. ¢
and mean it . .
to all of us, there'd be no-stopping
if he'd say ‘“you’ve got to
Somehow, surrounded by all those experts and with all
the inside news he must have about the war, he’s lost his
old touch with the people.
If he had a chance to visit
with us here for a while he'd know that we want action at
home and abroad. He’d know that all this talk about the
people being indifferent is so much applesauce. He'd know
he heads the toughest, hardest fighting people in the
world. He'd know that they can stand the bad news in the
raw and come back fighting harder than they have ever
fought before. He'd know that what's got us guessing is
not the Japs, or Huns or Italians but the awful fog over
Washington that makes us pull our punches. He'd know
that we want direct action not evasion .
no soft way to win the war.
. . that we seek
He'd know that we're tough, that we can stand on our
own feet and take it . .
. that he has spent too much time
making life easy for us, protecting our social gains.
He’d know that what we want is hard-boiled leader-
ship—the kind that treats domestic saboteurs just as it
treats those who land from submarines. He'd know that
we've one objective now—no others matter.
He'd know that we're not the government’s children
- seeking to be pampered . . . but men and women eager to
follow orders on any front. He'd know that we'll struggle,
fight and die for these green hills, Schooley’s Mountain,
Toby's Creek and our own little stake in America but that
we're too confused to want to die for “A union’s right to
strike” and social gains—right now.-
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The other sex is amusing and perplexing—whichever
side you're on.
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Don’t question me too closely; sometimes I don’t know
what I mean myself.
FROM.
PILLAR TO POST
By Mrs. T. M.
B. Hicks, Jr.
Before the current beef shortage, a Sunday roast was really a roast
and not a nubbin.
It sat on a large platter, its outer crust crisp and
brown, its interior delightfully pink and juicy. When sliced, it dripped
goodness on the platter, and the family fought over dunking privileges.
Three months ago, if I had written
had stolen the remains of the Sun-
day roast, the statement would have
called up a picture of a kitten mov-
ing a ten-pound roast with a set of
rollers and a crowbar.
When the horrid growling from
the kitchen succeeded the thump
and the scuffle, the family rose with
one accord, abandoned its dessert,
and started for the kitchen. There
on the floor was the remnant of
the roast beef, and a determined
kitten was dragging it toward the
pantry. He has a cherished spot
under the tea-cart where he re-
tires with his loot, and he was re-
tiring. There was a trail on the
linoleum where he had already
dragged the dripping meat, a trail
reminiscent of the ones left by those
large Pacific Coast slugs we used
to meet on Bainbridge Island in
Puget Sound.
The kitten had his teeth sunk
into the roast, and was backing bus-
ily toward the pantry door. I said,
“Hey, you can’t do that,” and made
a lunge for the roast. The kitten
detached one set of claws briefly,
slapped at my wrist, then settled
down once more to steady hauling.
I attacked the situation from a
different angle. Placing one hand
firmly on the kitten’s neck and
getting a good. grip with the other
on the meat, I applied traction.
Nothing happened except more in-
tensive growling. More traction
produced an uncanny accordion-like
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that the smaller of the two kittens
Crossing Nears
Completion
The State Highway Department
has a force of men at work com-
pleting the. street crossing on Mill
street. Lehigh Valley Railroad com-
pleted raising its tracks to facilitate
the work some weeks ago.
‘Horner Thinks
| Humphrey Owen of Lehman avenue.
Tur Darras Post
MORE THAN A NEWSPAPER, A COMMUNITY INSTITUTION
Vol. 52
» FRIDAY, AUGUST 28. 1942
No. 35
Wasted money is wasted
lives. Don’t waste precious
lives. Every dollar you can
spare should be used to buy
War Bonds. Buy your ten
percent every pay day.
Big City Makes
Its Boys Hard
Director Of New York
Y.M.C.A. Is Guest Of
Relatives In Dallas
John Horner, formerly secretary
of the boys’ department, Wilkes-
Barre Y.M.C.A. and now executive
director of the Uptown Branch
Y.M.C.A., New York City, is spend-
ing sometime with Mr. and Mrs. E.
Mr. Horner has direct charge of
more than 1500 boys and girls,
members of the Branch, organized
into natural neighborhocd groups.
Working with him are sixty’ volun-
teer and three paid workers. -
“The city,” Mr. Horner believes,
“pays little attention to its boys
and girls, especially those below the
lower middle group.” These young-
sters come up the hard way in the |
tenement districts and about the |
only time they are given much at-
tention is when they are slapped in-
to uniform and told to go out and
fight to preserve many of the things
they never had. :
The Uptown Branch, located at
120th street and Claremont avenue, |
not far from Columbia University |
and Union Theological Seminary,
serves the adjacent tenement area.
It is a tough neighborhood where |
boys and girls grow up on the |
streets when they are out of school. |
_The Y. M. C. A. attempts to inter- |
est the boys through their natural |
gangs. Picking the leader, a!
Y.M.C.A. worker influences him to
bring his gang into association
membership and to play as a gang
on one of the many basketball and
baseball teams supervised by the
branch, . In this way many young-
sters who would otherwise have
nothing to do but seek uncontrolled
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London Evacuees
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Top: Babies and toddlers under five whose parents are either in service
or war work are being taken care of in country castles belonging to the
British aristocracy.
Bottom: Newcomers show their displeasure at being separated from their
parents. Soon, however, all will be ha»py and contented in their new
home.
recreation on the streets, join up.
Most big city youngsters, Mr. Horn-
er thinks, are suspicious. As gangs
they resist the police” who attempt
to drive them away from their play
on the streets, but these youngsters
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Band Leader
Rejects Offer
‘Directors Will Consider
More Applicants Friday
Although he was elected last
week to lead Dallas Township
School Band for the coming year, |
Thomas F. Watkins of Nesquehon- |
ing has declined to accept the posi-
tion because of his uncertainty re-
garding possible military service.
Among the dozen or more other
applicants for the job few have ever
had experience leading a band but
Dallas Township School directors at
their meeting this Friday night will
probably have to select someone
from this group. Opinion of the
board seems to favor the appoint-
ment of a young, woman in order
to avoid the chance of losing a
man to the draft.
Supervising Principal Raymond
Kuhnert has announced that the
Township School wil open on Wed-
nesday, September 9, at the usual
hour, 8:50 a. m. Bus schedules will
be announced in next week’s issue
of The Post.
F ormer Local Men Enter Horses
In Southern Tier Racing Circuit
Three former Dallas men whose
interest in horses goes back to the
days when pacers thundered over
the turf at the old Dallas Fair have
entered their horses at Elmira
(N. Y.) Fair and will follow the
Southern Tier Racing Circuit dux-
ing the fall season.
They are I. R. Elston of Forty
Fort, owner of Mercury Stables;
Harry Aurand of Wilkes-Barre, and
Dr. Claude Husted of Kingston.
With Gene Mulligan of Kingston,
they shipped their horses to the
New York State track Tuesday in
the horse van owned by Norman
James of Mohawk Stables, Har-
vey's Lake. All the men are mem-
" bers of Wyoming Valley Horse Asso-
ciation.
Mr. Elston’s entry, a mare, Nig-
ger—Silent Mozesta, is a sister of
Harry Aurand’s Billy Moss, a geld-
ing. Both are pacers, five and six
years old respectively. They were
sired by Chance Great Midwest:
Mr. Husted’s two entries are: Easter
Return, a mare, and Gondolier, a
stallion. Both are trotters.
The horses will be driven by Levi
Horner of Bloomsburg, outstanding
old-time driver and one of the best
known horsemen of Central Penn-
sylvania. Mr. Horner became avail-
able a few weeks after the death
of his own choice horse King Cot-
ton at the Towanda Fair® grounds.
King Cotton had won two heats and
was on his way to winning a third
when he dropped dead in harness.
Horse fanciers throughout the
Back Mountain region will watch
with interest the showing of these
four horses owned by local men and
driven by the veteran Horner.
believe the tall tales
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Potatoes Grow On Lilac Bushes;
Corn Throws Gravel On Tin Roof
Jack and he beanstalk
anything to! boast,.about if you can
that
come to light since John Frantz
have
and Howard Risley started to raise
potatoes without tops on Lehman
avenue.
Now Lew Nulton of Kunkle comes
forward with the claim that he is
raising high climbing potatoes with
vines 7 feet tall and Charlie Martin,
than whom no man could be more
truthful, verifies it. Lew boasts that
the potatoes are climbing up a lilac
bush on his place and ‘that the
whole procedure is perfectly normal
and even to be expected because of
the fine growing weather and the
great fertility of the soil in Dallas
Township. This spring, Lew says,
he cleaned out the scraps and peel-
ings from his potato bin and dump-
ed them near his lilac bush. Al-
most before he knew it the scraps
began to grow and have continued
| to grow by leaps and bounds ever
since.
Beside Mr. Nulton’s experience
other reports continue to pour in
verifying the richness of Dallas
Township soid and the imagination
of its farmers. Last week John
Yaple had his boy Jackie deliver a
cucumber, three feet long, to his
neighbor, Mrs. Dan Richards. When
she greeted Jackie at the door she
exclaimed, “Oh; thank you, Jackie,
for the watermelon.” According to
Squire Yaple the cucumber was not
the largest grown this season in
the Yaple & Kiefer garden. John
says the rainy weather has made
the crop grow so fast and so large
that he and Fred have discussed
using a cant hook to roll them out
of the garden if they grow any
larger.
Jim, Besecker also says the wet
weather has had a remarkable effeét
on crops in Dallas Borough. A few
weeks ago he planted beans in his
garden. For a while they showed
no signs of life: Then one night the
weather turned off warm and there
was a heavy rain. The next morn-
ing Jim found the beans up six
inches and in blossom. Fred Kiefer
heard Jim's story and remarked
that Jim's beans were nothing un-
usual. Frequently, he said, he and
John had to jump back out of the
way when they were planting bean
seeds in order to keep the quick-
.
er had >
growing plants from slapping them
in the face.
Pete Roushey was down in Herb
Lundy’s night club the other eve-
ning and said that he ought to go
home as the hour was growing late,
but there was no use since he
couldn't sleep when he .did get
home. Pete went on to exclaim
that his corn is growing so fast on
warm nights that it snaps and
cracks throwing the gravel on his
tin roof with such force that the
rattle keeps him awake.
Claude Cooke of Overbrook ave-
nue. had a harrowing experience
with weeds the other day as he was
clearing some wild ground back of
his place. Claude had been cutting
the weeds all afternoon when he
discovered that he was making no
progress and that the stumps were
sprouting with new growth so fast
that he couldn’t see his house. Fear-
ing that he would be unable to find
his way back to the house * he
started to blaze the side of the
stalks with a hatchet but new
branches stimulated by the flow of
sap grew so fast that they soon
concealed his markings. The only
thing that saved him was a fire that
destroyed the weeds. It seems that
a couple of fire bushes grew so fast
that the friction started a field fire.
Mrs. L. J. Spencer of Harris Hill
has been growing Chinese cucum-
bers this summer. She harvested
one this week 16% inches long and
2% inches around. She got the seed
|in Philadelphia and says this is no
tall story.
Lake Township Tops
List On Liquor Refund
Lake Township received $3,200
this week, when Auditor General
F. Clair Ross approved the payment |
of $2,397,841 to 990 cities, bor-
oughs and townships throughout
the commonwealth of Pennsylvania
as a refund on liquor licenses. This
was the largest received Back of
the Mountain, Dallas Borough rank-
ing next with $2,600, Dallas Town-
ship third with $2,000, Lehman
Township fourth with $1,300 and
Kingston Township last with $600.
This money, collected by the
state for liquor licenses, is refunded
to the township, borough or city
semi-annually for use in its general
fund.
Dallas Township
Gets New Busses
All Steel Construction
One Many Features
Andypéw enbender and an as-
sistas. ove home two of Dallas
Township’s new school busses last
week. They returned to a mid-
west city on Friday for the remain-
ing two. 5
The busses are two Interna-
tionals, one G. M. C. and one Dia-
mond T, upon the chassis of which
the Carpenter Body Company has
built the safest and most modern
bodies. The job was special and
will probably be the best commer-
cial work done in the country for
the duration. There are at the
present time, Mr: Bittenbender
states, no body companies operating
as such in the United States.
Each bus has 250-inch wheel
base and will carry sixty children
in leather upholstered seats. They
are equipped with hot-water heat-
ers, first aid kits and are insulated
with rock-wood throughout. They
have solid, one-piece steel tops.
The entire body is of steel construc-
tion.
The three steps are so adapted
that the smallest child carried can
enter or leave the conveyance with-
out assistance. Pneumatically con-
trolled doors and booster brakes
are additional features.
Mr. Bittenbender is interviewing
applicants with the view to hiring
competent drivers for the coming
school season.
Public Offers
Cots, Blankets
Station Still Needs
Towels And Basins
Dallas Township supervisors have
contributed $55 to Dallas Casualty
Station matching a similar contri-
bution given to the station some
weeks ago by Dallas Borough Coun-
cil." These funds will be used to
purchase medical and first aid sup-
plies.
In a generous response to an ap-
peal by Mrs. Eugene Lazarus, local
chairman, residents of the com-
munity have offered eight cots to
be used in equipping the station
and have provided enough blankets
to meet her original request. Towels
and wash basins have also been
donated but there is still a need
for a few extra blankets and ad-
ditional wash basins and towels.
Mrs: Lazarus said she was de-
lighted with the response of the
community to her first published
appeal for supplies. Generous citi-
zens called her immediatey to offer
cots and blankets. She also praised
T. A. Williammee, supervising prin-
cipal, and William Davis, custodian,
of Dallas Borough School for their
valuable assistance in helping her to
set up the station in the high school
building. Within the next few days,
after the building is cleaned for the
opening of the fall term, all sup-
plies will be moved into the special
room provided for the station.
During the surprise backout last
week all nurses were at their sta-
tions ready to meet any emergency.
Engel Is Held
Without Bail
On Rape Charge
Dallas Township Man
Also Pleads Guilty
On Two Other Charges
Charged with raping a 56-year
old Dallas Township woman and
robbing and assaulting her 62-year
old companion, Richard Engel, 24,
Maplewood Heights, Fernbrook, is
being held without bail in Luzerne
County Prison.
Engel, father of three small chil-
dren, pleaded guilty to all counts—
morals, robbery and aggravated as-
sault and battery—when taken be-
fore Justice-of-the-Peace W. How-
ell Evans of Wyoming on Tuesday
afternoon by State Troopers Mich-
eal Ryan and Ralph Bergstresser.
Constable James Gansel, who was
first called on the case, said Engel
accosted Mrs. Sara Spencer, Yeager
companion, Dory Avery, Charles
about 2 o'clock Sunday morning
after Mrs. Spencer and Avery had
left a Fernbrook drinking establish-
ment to walk home together. :
Engel drove up in an automobile,
according to Gansel, but his com-
panion drove on without him and
had nothing to do with the alleged
assault. Avery is said to have told
Engel to_leave them alone. Avery
and Engel came to blows and the
fight ended when the older man
was knocked ‘unconscious: Engel
then took $6. from Avery’s pocket
and later attacked Mrs. Spencer
After regaining consciousness Avery
was again beaten by Engel.
After the melee Mrs. Spencer was
able to take Avery ta her home
where Dr. Malcolm Borthwich was
ankle, fractured ribs and possible
internal injuries. % :
Engel, an employee of Hazar
Rope Works, was arrested later
Sunday. Some years ago he was
involved in a rape case following
the arrest of a 14-year old Fern-
brook girl on a morals charge.
Marine Writes
From Pacific
Shaver and Cousins
Were On Same Boat
Possibility that Willard Shayer
and his cousins, Elwood and Hg
ard Whitesell, of Pike's Creek, may
be seeing action in the Solomon Is-
lands’ battles was confirmed this
week when his mother, Mrs: Rus-
sel Shaver of Dallas, received her
first letter in 12 weeks from the
young Marine.
In his note written aboard ship
July 7, almost two months ago,
Willard said that everything was
going fine. His cousins were with
him and that they had enjoyed the
long water trip since leaving San
Francisco sometime after June 12.
“We passed the equator and spent
the day initiating the fellows,” he
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Dallas Folk Ar
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Marti
The only thing natural about
Atlantic City in the summer of 1942
is the beach,” said Gertrude Wilson
summing up her visit to the coast
resort in company with Margaret
Czulegar, Mrs. Donald Vietch and
Margaret Veitch last week end.
“There were thousands, and
thousands and thousands of sol-
diers”, Margaret Czulegar chimed
in. Probably the most interesting
thing about the trip to the women
was the opportunity to observe the
wartime atmosphere that has set-
tled over the city.
Practically all of the hotels were
filled with soldiers. Furnishings,
draperies and all of the luxuries of
peacetime living have been remov-
ed. Instead of liveried doormen,
military police stand at entrances to
prevent civilians from entering.
Only the barest furnishings, cots,
chairs and tables remain in the
building used to house cadets and
soldiers.
Endless companies of
soldiers
ressed With
spect Of Atlantic City
march up and down the board
walks on their way to classes or
assemblies. Squads line up in front
of hotel entrances for roll call or
stand inspection in side streets.
If the visitor is impressed by the
military changes of the daytime
he is awed with night ‘life at the
resort. Al} lights facing the ocean
are blacked out. Not the faintest
glimmer shows from hotel windows.
Boardwalk shop windows are dim-
med out with blue cellophane cov-
erings and window spotlights are
dimmed with other blue cellophane
coverings: No garish electric signs
welcome visitors to piers or movies.
Out of the darkness along the
boardwalk comes the hushed sound
of men marching in rubber soled
shoes. Most of the men are in their
quarters at nine o'clock.
Miss Wilson's party stopped at a
tourist home after they found the
Y.W.CAA. so crowded that accom-
modations were not available. A
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avenue, Dallas Township, and her
street, Dallas, on Overbrook avenue .
called. Avery was admitted to the
hospital suffering from a fractured