PAGE TWO
i
THE POST, FRIDAY SEP
x
is
TEMBER 4, 1942
~ SECOND T
By javie aiche
HOUGHTS
Bh Answer To
Dear Lady:
Far be it from me to place obsta-
cles against the Biblical admonition
to go forth and multiply. And
since my biological mathematics are
all summed up, I simply serve who
only stand and wait. First off I was
a pretty lofty fellow, overseeing the
preparations of the eldest daughter
for a flight to the University of
Wisconsin. I had visions of her
emerging as a social scientist,
whereas she merely became social:
The best of the sororities out
there gobbled her up and she in
turn masticated with sweet compla-
cency the freshman diet of inform-
ation and instruction supposedly
good for the mental digestion. One
of the football stars had a crush
on her, as did one of the eight of
the Senior crew. And at the ten-
der age of eight she had hit top-
column in Franklin P. Adam's]
. “Conning Tower” with a quatrain,
“The Butterfly.”
| Then came the dawn like thun-
der. Christmas vacation was coin-
cidental with resurgence of adol-
escent infatuation for a young man
of the home neighborhood, newly
out of business school and precari-
ously started on what I hope shall
be a real career. Only a few miles
from the Baltimore department of
the U. S. A. Medical Corps where I
submitted my qualifications for
whatever I shall be able to contrib-
ute to the war effort there is a four-
some to represent that first young
lady off to a college education. And
she’s making a swell job of carry-
ing on the white race:
The second young lady is a war-
bride. Pearl Harbor and the altar,
sacrifice ‘and = surrender, national
hate and hymeneal love, achieved
both contrast and propinquity with
that child of my bosom, after she
had completed her Sophomore year
and should have been near midway
of the Junior Semesters. Did I say
~ Midway? The young man is in his
fourth month of training as an Air
Cadet.
Yes, Edith Blez, I prepared two
young ladies = for college. I sent
them both far from the haunts of
their puppy involvements And they
came back to them with the in-
stinct of the homing pigeon. One
of the kid husbands is already at
war and the other is rearing against
the restraint of the bit, over-anx-
jous to be off to global adventures.
I shall hold him in check as long as
the law permits. Just about able
to vote, he has, I think, sufficient
responsibilities in the home sector.
I do not envy your job, Edith
Blez. What duties were doubly in-
volved in my case I shifted to a
maiden sister; but, when came the
day that the first young lady said
goodbye at the yawning doorway of
a Lindbergh airliner I was a proud
father enwrapped by expectations
/
that a graduate daughter would be
making her mark on the scroll of
triumphant democracy, soon after
commencement exercises in the
land of the LaFollettes. I had spent
some time there myself, a quarter
century past, as a reporter of an
expedition sent to study down to its
fundamentals “The Wisconsin Idea,”
only to find that it had been im-
ported from Pennsylvania State
College through a man 1 remember
as Dean Reber.
Yet, I congratulate you on your
new experience. My participation,
by proxy, was anything but un-
welcome. When came the time for
the second young lady to go I se-
lected for her the immurement of
convent walls, but it required only
two and one-half terms to find the
way out. I am quite pleased withal,
hopeful that war will spare my ac-
quired sons, one to business and the
other to veteran status among the
honorably discharged from the
U. S. Air Corps at a time as yet un-
predictable.
Well, Edith, that it all. Except-
ing that, just as I had reached this
concluding paragraph there came
a special delivery letter from that
twenty-year-old mother of my two
first grand-children. She is coming
home for a visit, just as I am finish-
ing packing for duty across the bor-
der, the northern one: So long,
Edith Blez. I am not hoping for
you that your own young lady shall
find Cupid the lesser god when con-
fronted by whatever divine afflatus
waits around the college bend. We
had our day; let the kids have
theirs.
t
’
JOHN LEIDLINGER
(“Red,” formerly with Frey Bros.)
All Kinds Of
LEATHER WORK REPAIRING
Very Neatly Done.
Harness, Collars and Horse Supplies
Dog Supplies and
LUGGAGE
117 SO. WASHINGTON ST.,
You ask it: Did this correspondent ever prepare a young lady for
college? I give you a double-barrelled answer.
young lady but two. That is how come I am a two-time grandpappy
today while awaiting the arrival, some time around Yuletide, of another
addition to my third generation.&
Edith Blez
I did indeed; not one
SAFETY VALVE
Speaking of Crops
Dear Editor: '
Such pikers these gardeners be!
Your article of last week about the
miniature vegetables - of Dallas
Township gardens was most inter-
esting. But have you heard of the
super-abundance of the crops, the
super-outsizes of the vegetables,
and the super-fertility of the soil of
Huntsville ?
Of course it is a well-known fact
that in a normal year one apple
makes two pies out Huntsville-way; ¢
but this is an abnormal year, and
a single apple only makes one pie
and a quart of APPLESAUCE!
But it is not apples I want to tell
you about; it.is tomatoes. As you
know the soil hereabouts is es-
pecially adapted to raising tomatoes.
In fact the tomatoes grow so big in
Huntsville that the vines cannot.
stretch far enough to reach the
stems of the fruits, and so when
the vines are exhausted from the
continuous effort of trying to keep
rooted, they let go their toe-hold in
the soil and are pulled out by their
lusty youngsters. To save the vines,
we pick em green. t
Just to find out what our soil |
can do, we let one grow and get
ripe. It kept us terribly busy night
and day splicing the vine. When
this Paul Bunyan of tomatoes got
ripe, we hacked it loose, pulled it
onto the truck by means of the
team, reinforced the truck’s springs
and hauled it off to Public Square.
There we put a spigot in its side,
got a huge carton of paper cups and
a peddler’s license, and started to
sell all the tomato juice you want
to drink for just ten cents, the
tenth part of a dollar, folks. We
don’t know exactly how much juice
we did draw from the old monster,
but we did get a half-bushel of
dimes.
But we ended in disaster, Mr.
Risley. When we slid the tomato
to the back of the truck down
there, it was so heavy that it would
have made a teeter-totter with the
front of the truck, if we hadn't
counter-balanced the tomato and
the engine by putting a quarter ton
of old iron on the motor. Well,
some of those urchins of Wilkes-
Barre started monkeying around
and took the junk off to sell it.
Zip! The front of the truck flew up:
Smash! The tomato hit the side-
walk and splattered juice all over.
It was ankle deep in the gutter.
People on Public Square saw said
juice and thought it was the Wyo-
ming Massacre all over again. They
called the Mayor; he called the
Police and the Fire Department.
The FBI came a-flying. In rushed
the Coast Guard, the Army, the
Navy and the Leathernecks. They
found us frantically trying to mop
up. They were so mad that they
revoked our peddler’s license. It
wasn’t so bad, but what made me
sore was that Mr. Peanut picked up
the seeds, and they sold them for
salted almonds. :
You can believe me, too, Mr.
Risley. Did you ever know me to
lilac those guys who grew potatoes
in lilac bushes?
Sincerely,
DALE WARMOUTH.
®
Released by Keystone Features, Yo.
Welding The Chain
i
August 13, 1942.
‘THE OUTPOST
Where those at home and the men and women in the armed
services from the Back Mountain Region—in camps and on =
the fighting fronts—keep contact with their fellows through- - @
3
Snakes What Am Snakes
Dear Editor:
Just a line to let you know that
I am still receiving the good old
Post and enjoy it more than ever
It sure has been very hot here
this summer, 100 degrees weather
being quite common. :
One of our boys just came in with
a 4% ft. timber rattlesnake that he
killed on a rifle range. One with
23 rattles was killed here near the
station hospital today. They sure
come big in Georgia. .
Best regards to all,
Pvt. Glenn Kitchen,
Military Police Corps,
Camp Wheeler, Georgia
We've asked a half dozen
fellows at Wheeler to look you
up, Glenn. They ought to be
able to spot a big M. P. with a
Back Mountain look about him,
hadn’t they? Your father,
Harry Allen and the rest of the
boys at the lake are getting
some nice catches of fish this
summer—Editor. ®
Congratulates Bridegroom
Dear Editor:
I have been transferred to Fort
Benning, Georgia, and want to in-
form you of my change of address.
The weather here is still the same
GOD BLESS ‘EM
In the first place, men are noisy
creatures—they are newspaper rat-
tlers, and shower-bath singers, and
door-bangers and snorers. And in
the intervals between these uproars
they say, “Can’t we have a little
quiet?”
Men do not want to go out in
the evenings, and then—once out—
they do not want to come home. By
the same token, they dislike to
dress in evening clothes, but are
enchanted with the way they look
when you have finally talked them
into doing so. They make fun: of
| women for powdering in public, but
The trouble with women: First,
they are too practical. If a woman
comes out to help you look at the
moonlight, you know she is men-
tally calculating how many kilowatts
the moon is wasting. }
If two horses are running in a
race, one named Security and one
named Romance, you may be sure
her bet is on Security. When you
meet a woman for the first time and
she looks you over from top to toe,
as she always does, and a soft light
of admiration glows in her eyes, it
is not for your physique, not for
your manly beauty, but for your
Dial 3-9459 Wilkes-Barre, Pa.
Earning capacity.
Men Trouble—Katharine Brush
they themselves cannot pass a mir-
ror without a slackening of the
footsteps and a glance at That
Handsome Fellow.
The physical courage they ex-
hibit in war’and in sport is con-
spicuous by its absence when they
are mildly ill in their beds at home
with one degree of fever. The per-
sonification of mortal terror, as a
matter of fact, is a man removing |
a thermometer from under his
tongue and discovering that the
mercury is even fractionally in the
red...
Ah men!
Women Trouble—Bud Kelland
Second, they are too impractical.
A woman will turn the thermostat
up to seventy and then open all the
windows to let in cold air. She does
not perceive that this smacks of in-
consistency. She is goddess of the
installment system. Immediate pos-
sesion outweighs a calendar full of
days of reckoning. She would rather
marry a good dancer than a good
provider, and she would rather have
a man ‘jump to open a door than
leap to open a bank account.
The trouble with women is: You
never can add one of them up twice
and get the same sum.
“« }
More than a mewspaper,
a commuhity institution”
THE DALLAS POST
ESTABLISHED 1899
A mon-partisan libera
progressive mewspaper pub-
lished. every Friday morning
at its plant on Lehman Ave-
nue, Dallas, Penna., by the
Dallas Post.
Entered as second-class matter
at the post office at Dallas, Pa.,
under the Act of March 3, 1879.
Subscription rates: $2.00 a year;
$1.25 six months. No subscrip-~
tions accepted for less than six
months. Out-of-state subscrip-
tions, $2.50 a year; $1.75 six
months or less. Back issues,
more than one week old, 10c
each.
Single copies, at a rate of 5c
each, can be obtained every Fri-
day morning at the following
newsstands: Dallas: Hislop’s Rest-
aurant, Tally-Ho Grille; Shaver-
town, Evans’ Drug Store; Trucks-
ville, Leonard’s Store; Huntsville,
Frantz Fairlawn Store.
When requesting a change of
address on mail copies subscrib-
ers are asked to give the old as
well as new address in order to
prevent delay. :
Editor and Publisher
HOWARD W. RISLEY
Associate Editor
MYRA ZEISER RISLEY
Contributing Editors
JOHN V. HEFFERNAN
FRED M. KIEFER
MRS. T. M. B. HICKS
EDITH BLEZ
DR. F. B. SCHOOLEY
MARTHA HADSEL
Mechanical Superintendent
HARRY E. POST
FREEDOM
The colummists and con-
tributers on this page are
allowed great latitude in
expressing their own opin-
tons, even when their
opinions are at variance
with those of The Post.
—ay
"addressed to his nearest of kin.
Georgia weather, and we mean it
here when we say it is hot.
The fort is a permanent one and
it is real nice. It has all the con-
veniences of home, and I mean, it.
Wish that the people from around
home could gee it.
I also want you to congratu-
late Sergeant Michael Polacheck and
his wife for me through the Post of
their recent marriage:
And please say “hello” to my
folks and all the friends in and
around Dallas for me.
Only. keep sending the Post as I |
am always waiting for it and enjoy
it and appreciate it very much.
I will say so-long to you all there
in Dallas.
Thanking you all there,
I remain,
Pvt. Joseph J. Hudak,
Co. E. 29th Inf.,
Fort Benning Georgia.
We enjoyed a nice visit from
your brother, Anthony, when
he was home the latter part of
August from Bridgeport. Your
mother tells us she misses
your familiar ‘“what’s to eat,
mom ?” but all the fellows tell
us they are getting swell food
in the army. Is it so ?—Editor.
Shirking Duty
Editor,
Dallas Post,
Dallas, Pennsylvania.
Repeated violations by men who
overstay their furloughs in direct
disobedience to Army orders or who
go absent without leave seriously
impair the operating efficiency of
their organizations. At the same
time, these delinquencies gravely
undermine the military authority
needed to fashion a fighting force.
We are, therefore, requesting that
you give the widest publicity to the
delinquency of Private MERLIN D.
WERKHEISER of Shavertown, Pa.,
now absent without leave from this
organization, and presumably in
your community. A story on this
violation is attached for your con-
venience.
The Army of the United States
has always greatly appreciated the
aid and encouragement given it by
the press and we are certain you
will wish to co-operate in return-
ing this man to his organization and
helping him to realize that he is
shirking a duty to the country he
has sworn to defend.
A carbon of this letter has been
Very truly yours,
Henry F. Miller,
1st Lt. 109th FA Bn.,
Commanding, Btry ‘“B”
THE SENTIM
By EDITH BLEZ
ENTAL SIDE]
My Dear Grandchildren:
know how much oil we are going to
Here it is the end of the summer,
because we have been having cool weather. You should see us shivering!
We can’t bring ourselves to turn on the oil burners because we don’t
=
THE LOW DOWN FROM
HICKORY GROVE
You don’t meed a peri-
scope to look around the
corner and see what will
be taking place one year
after we get through with
Germany and Japan.
I don’t wear both a belt
and suspenders —I am
therefore mot a first de-
gree pessimast. Also I am
not a 200 per cent opti-
mast, like the bald headed
gent who bought a bottle
of hair tonic—and a
brush and comb. But my
: eyesight is fair. I see
good times for the U.S.A.
in the offing if we show |
some gumption, and I see
a mess if we keep on with
the ‘“Potomac-type”’ so-
cialism we been toying
with. Daniel Boone got
along in pretty good
shape. So did Davy Crock-
ett, and George Washing-
ton and Thomas Jeffer-
son. There was no Social-
ism then—no “up-lifters”
in “E” cars (E for Ex-
empt) cluttering the high-
ways—and byways. No
government in private
business. = The govern-
ment ran the army and
navy then —it didn't
camp on your door-step.
We gotta get back to
the original American
system—and pronto. A
good time to start culling
out is just around the
November looms
~ corner.
big.
Yours with the low down,
JO SERRA.
BN
Health Topics
By F. B. Schooley, M. D.
a
Acute Bronchitis
Acute bronchitis is a catarrhal
inflammation of the bronchial tubes.
It is one of the commonest diseases,
and is one of the chief manifesta-
tions of the common cold and in-
fluenza. Bronchial catarrh often
occurs as a secondary process in
the course of general infectious
diseases, such as measles and
whooping cough. Children with rick-
ets and enlarged tonsils are more
susceptible. It is most common, in
cold, ‘damp climates and in the
spring and autumn seasons which
are marked by sudden changes in
temperature. Inhalation of dust and
irritating gases or vapors may cause
bronchial inflamation. Fatigue and
exposure to cold, particularly if
there has been chilling of the body,
will diminish the general resistance
of the individual.
The cough is an early and con-
stant symptom. At first it is harsh
and dry and may be accompanied
by soreness or pain in the chest.
The bronchial mucous membrane is
swollen and congested and the
bronchial secretion is diminished
causing an initial dryness. This
produces a tickling sensation or a
feeling of tightness or rawness in;
the upper chest: This condition is
followed by an excessive produc-
tion of mucous by the bronchial
glands. The cough loosens and is
less irritating. Expectoration soon
follows. At first the sputum is
scanty and viscid and later becomes
abundant and mucopurulent in
character. The soreness in the
chest disappears and the general
condition improves. During infancy
and old age and in debilitated per-
sons, the catarrhal process has a
| to the boys overseas.
and it seems to really be the end,
get this winter and the little we do
have is precious. You should see
us riding around on bicycles instead
of driving our cars. It isn’t any
novelty for me, but you should see
some of the villagers who haven't
ridden since they were youngsters.
The druggist is most amusing. He
| rides all over town on his son’s bi-
cycle. He leaves his car in the gar-
age and does all his errands via
bicycle.
Do you know anything about
V mail? The Post Office authori-
ties are trying to convince us that
we must use V mail when writing
Letters are
photographed and the films take up
less room on the boats. Much of
the V mail is being carried by fer-
ried bombers right now. I suppose
I must use the V mail if the postal
| authorities say so but I am not
crazy about the idea. I can’t write
‘| enough on one sheet. It isn’t possi-
ble to enclose pictures or clippings.
| I have received V letters from some
of the boys and they are very im-
personal, but who am I to complain
if V mail helps the government?
Heaven knows they must have
plenty of trouble with the mail
which is going overseas in such
large quantities.
This is only the first part of
September but we are busy with
‘| Christmas parcels. They have to be
.| mailed by October 16. It is difficult
to know what to send boys overseas
because the package cannot weigh
over eleven pounds or exceed eigh-
teen inches in length and forty-two
inches in length and girth com-
bined: The Government has set the
eleven-pound limit but is urging us
to fit the gift into an ordinary shoe
box. It also asks that no food or
clothing be sent. American boys
are going to miss Thanksgiving and
Christmas at home and are we going
to miss the boys! :
We received a cable from The
Three Musketeers this week. They
have landed somewhere in Great
Britain and are well and safe. It
was good news! It is difficult to
picture them so far away. Some of
our local boys are in India, many
are in Ireland and England, several
in Alaska and we don’t know, how
many are taking part in the battle
of the Solomons at this very min-
ute. We are only a small town but,
like all small towns all over Amer-
ica, we are represented in all parts
of the world. Our boys are on many
‘ronts.
We can only hope that America
is really on the march, that this is
the beginning of the end. You will
read about Dieppe just as you will
read about Dunkirk. The battle for
the Solomons will be a part of your
history lesson while I back here in
1942 am reading about the battles
in my daily newspaper.
Each time I write to you I envy
you your viewpoint all over again.
How is this all going to end? When
you are reading your history books
and studying your maps and know
the outcome of this terrific struggle
think of me back in September,
1942, totally ignorant of what is in
store.
Protect Your Car From
Thieves
With The New Sensational
Hudson Car Alarm
Ask For a Demonstration At
OLIVER'S
DALLAS, PA.
\THE]
FIRST/NATIONAL
BANK
DALLAS, PENNA.
MEMBERS AMERICAN
marked tendency to spread into the
smaller tubes, and to produce
bronchopneumonia. A bronchitis
weeks, particularly if it occurs in
childhood or early adult life, should
always excite a suspicion of tubercu-
losis. When the expectoration is
streaked with blood, and an after-
noon rise of temperature continues
and there is loss of weight and
strength, the likelihood of tuber-
culosis is more certain.
The object of treatment is to
clear up the infection in as short
a time as possible, to prevent ex-
tension of infection down the bron-
chial tree and to protect those who
may be in contact with the individ-
ual from getting the disease. Rest in
bed is the most valuable measure
for hastening recovery from acute
Camp Livingston, La.
bronchitis.
that resists treatment for several,
BANKERS’ ASSOCIATION
R. L. Brickel, C. A. Frantz, W. B.
Jeter, Sterling Machell, W. R. Neely,
Clifford Space, A. C. Devens,
Herbert Hill.
OFFICERS
C. A. Frantz, President
Sterling Machell, Vice-President
W. R. Neely, Vice-President
W. B. Jeter, Cashier
F. J. Eck, Assistant Cashier
Vault Boxes For Rent,
No account too small to secure
careful attention.
25 MAIN ST.
1 :
i met td nie
ato
.
san