SECOND THOUGHTS : By javie aiche I was about to tell you the story ‘came in. The puff of his chest, his st has become president of Williams Associates with nation-wide traffick- ing in the modern essentials to jour- | nalistic speed-up, on the mechani- cal side, of course. Tim Williams was on the night trick for me back in 1915 when I had a publishing op- eration moving out of Mutler Alley, in Wilkes-Barre. All else that mat- : ters at the present is that he said ~ he read two stories about me in the September 2 and 11 issues of Edi- tor & Publisher, and I wish to thank whomsoever was responsible for - them. I didn’t see them and have no idea of what they contained, good or bad. Anyhow, to somebody, thanks. “How busy is your mimeograph department ?”’ Archie Learch asked i. me. E> The mimeograph department wasn't busy at all, but I hedged a =| bit. “Why?” I asked Archie. hs “I'd like to get a letter out to every editor in this country,” said Archie Learch. “There's a matter that should be called to attention, not for editors alone but for the .good of every man who gets his hair - cut.” “Tell me about it,” I suggested. “You may not believe it on the tes- timony of my shining plate, but I get a hair-cut. I even take my hat | off while getting it, although it is an unnecessary concession to the op- : practically every man and boy in America submits to a hair-cut oc- : casionally, some of them even regularly. What's that got to do ‘with addressing a leter to all the editors ?”’ i “I want to put a stop to a prac- | tice of the barbers,” said Archie. “Im a little late in getting started, too. Before I realized what it meant I let Ben Cook shave my ears.” ~ “Ben’s a very good barber, but he 3 only clips the hair on the lobes of my ears,” I told Archie.” “Yes, and what happens ?”’ Archie : ~ was becoming fiery in mood. “You discover that with even one clip- I ping or shaving of the ears the hairs begin to get lusty and grow faster. I've seen , them as stiff as pig bristles, but I didn’t realize until now what causes them. For the first time, today, Ben Cook shaved the hairs on my ear lobes.” “Well, it’s a common practice; Ha why bother about it?” I asked | Archie. ~~ “Do the men and boys realize what this practice © will bring about?” Look, said Archie, “if this | thing goes on we are going to have a race of hairy-eared men in this country. Each clipping or shaving of ear hairs will cause them to grow ps stronger. After a while the barbers ~ will have us looking like a new ver- sion of the missing link. It ought to be stopped right now. I propose to have every newspaper in this coun- RY: try print a letter to that effect, to warn men and boys against barbers. If they do not permit the first clip- ping or shaving of the ear hairs there will be no need of a second operation,” said Archie. “ I want to act right now. Lend me your mimeograph, will you?” | As this is being written, Archie is ~ busy on the stencil typewriter, : punctiliously punching out his letter to the editors, wholly enwrapped in the emotions of the gigantic reform | he is going to bring about in the practice of barbers who give mere- tricious over-attentiveness to the hairs that grow on men’s ears. Archie figures that we can devote twenty-five dollars of postage | stamps to his evangelism and reach | 832 of the country’s editorial rooms, ‘with 2 stamps left over for letters in the two-cent zone. He is quite ~ welcome to the facilities of the mimeograph room. And why not? Isn’t it a health- ful commentary on the soundness of America that Archie Learch, pre- cariously poised between Congress and the Draft and waiting for one or the other to tilt him toward his future, can have left an all-encom- passing enthusiasm for saving men | from becoming hairy-eared as’ the | simian? Archie is sound as a new silver dollar, prime for service; the question of whether he should con- tinue civil life or enter the mili- tary he is glad to leave to the pon- derous thinking of the war makers. | I would have supposed that with three young children, very young children, he might have waited un- ~ til the war sopped up the dodgers on the federal payrolls. If it should be that Archie’s mail | crusade for ears inviolate to the barber's razor and clippers should ~ fail to touch in at Dallas; well, Mr. Editor, I will append a copy of the rough-draft of the Learch letter. ~ Here it is: : “To The Editor: Men become bald, from worry or functional causes. That can’t be helped. Other men ~ all made clear that Archie was a man with a mission. letter from Tim Williams, of whom it will be sufficient for the time being to say that, since leaving Laurel Run Borough and going to New York, he eration. The fact, Archie, is that | : jis not a veiling or concealment of of Tim Williams when Archie Learch out stride, the fire of zeal in his eyes, So I put away the " Health Topics By F. B. Schooley, M. D. Puberty Puberty is the age when sexual maturity begins. The formation of sexual characters is induced by the internal secretion of the. reproduc- tive or the endocrine glands. The thyroid gland increases in activity shortly before puberty, and there is a period of growth in stature and increase in weight. An inter-action occurs between the thyroid and the other endocrine glands. A general physical and mental awkwardness takes place, the period being spoken of, especially in girls, as the “awk- ward age’. Puberty, is a critical age, tasking to the utmost the capacity of par- ents and teachers. It is now that the permanent traits which consti- tute individuality begin to find definite expression. Boys and girls tend to discover a will of their own, and to show a strong desire for in- dependence, often accompanied by la change of sentiment towards oth- ers and a change of attitude to- | wards daily duties and the obliga- { tions of school and home life. Firm- | ness and understanding must be ex- ;ercised in such a way as to make the period of transition as easy as i possible for those who have not yet | completely outgrown their child- hood. The endocrine glands have a pow- erful influence upon the mind and body of human beings. A remark- able transformation occurs in the | phystoal, emotional and mental life | during puberty. Life acquires a new | and deeper meaning. What we need sex, but sane and unprejudiced edu- | cation concerning the problems of | sex and their importance to the general bodily health. i Sexual misdemeanors of all kinds are closely connected with the abuse { of alcohol. Small quantities of in- toxicants, especially in persons who | are sensitive to its influence, will | blunt moral restraint. It will lead the individual to forget or under- | estimate the dangers. of venereal infection. The stimulant effect of al- cohol is due to a removal of inhibi- i tion and a restraint of the higher | | mental functions. Overindulgence in | I youth is an endeavor to cast off re- | straint and to enjoy emotions. Judg- | ment is diminished, self-confidence is exalted, and the fine sensibili- ties become dulled. Alcohol is the | main buttress of prostitution and criminality. grow hair in over-abundance, but that can be helped very much. A shave and a hair-cut will take care of the surplus. Now, even if you don’t believe it, it is possible to convert downy hair into a bristle toughness by sregularly clipping or shaving it, and it is this downy hair on the lobes of men’s ears that bar- bers are training into a nuisance growth. I suspect that having raised hair-cuts from 25 cents to a dollar they look forward to adding another quarter for looking after the ears. I think men jand boys should be warned. I appeal to you to let men and boys know this: If you don’t permit the ear hairs to be shaved or clipped the first time, you'll never need the service a second time. If you submit to the treatment, then your ears will grow hair until you will come to look as though you are always wearing muffs. Yours in op- position to = tonsorial trespass— ARCHIE LEARCH.” I interrupted Archie to copy his memorandum and to give me chance to make him acquainted with Tom Davenport. Tom is wrothy over the careless operation of fast trains. And he is embroiled by ‘orders to his uncle, Charles Dunlop, of Paw- nee. The Dunlop farm has been or- dered to increase its plantings for next year, whereas in the better pre-war days the Dunlop income was enriched by $35,000 for plow- ing under corn and not raising pigs. Uncle Charles of Pawnee, stands six- foot-four and. weighs 456 pounds. He's seventy-four years old. His wife, 66, is the Dunlop farm com- missary, feeding sixteen lusty hired hands three times a day. “My Uncle Charley will have to plant heavy,” said Davenport. “It's going to be a lot of work. And what do you know about labor demand- ing more wages? They'll simply eat | more and crowd more trains that | go too fast now to try to carry their loads.” I walked back to my:New York Times whose editorial page suggests that with “Union Now” between the 5 out the world. THE OUTPOST Where those at home and the men and women in the armed ~% i 2 services from the Back Mountain Region—in camps and on . 2) the fighting fronts—keep contact with their fellows through- \ September 16, 1943 Dear Howard: Just a few more lines to let you know that I am still receiving the Post and very happy. Everything is going fine over hereq Wash Ma-, chine Charlie comes over and throws a good scare into us for he lets go his bombs anywhere. He is avery poor, shot when he gets a target. The only part is that you think a million different things when you hear his bombs coming down so nice and sweet. Your best friend at a time like that is your fox hole and, of course, when two men go for one fox hole, the man on the bottom takes a good beating. Well, Howard, I like this island I am on, but not like Oahu, for this place is bare. Nothing here but birds and natives, but we hope to see more and nicer and better islands in the near future. We have not seen civilization now for ten months and that sure is one heck of a long time. On top of that, I haven't seen home since October 12, 1940, and that’s another long time. But as long as this war carries on and I am alive and capable of carrying on, I am going to be in it. I have been in it since December 7, 1941, and I hope to be in it when it ends—at least, I hope I am that lucky. So far, I have enjoyed myself all the time on this island, for you see some very interesting things when you get out and around. One thing is the native people and the way they live. Their villages are something worth seeing and you can trade! with them. They'll give you almost anything for a pipe or a knife. I was in one village and saw everything there was. Here are some of the things I saw: One native woman, with a baby that could not have been over two weeks old and | she had no clothes on it, was smok- ing a nice new pipe and enjoying it very much. : In another hut we were talking to a native man whose wife was there with him. There was a baby girl in the hut he claimed to be only four months old and she was run- ning around better than any two- year-old baby back home. She was having quite a time with a little pig that was running around in the hut. One old lady was making some kind of beads and laughing at some- . body in the crowd. The natives here are very friendly with us all and have been ever since the first American soldier landed on the island, which was some time ago. Most all of the na- tives are Christians for there are a few missionaries on the island. Before the war there were quite a few and they were taught to speak English and read the Holy Bible and many natives ask you if you will give them a Bible. There is a native boy who works around our camp cutting bamboo who can speak really good English. He can read a Bible very well and also sing many church songs by heart. I gave him some Upper Room books that I had been saving and he read dif- ferent verses out of them. I was surprised, for he read them very well, and thanked me for the books. They're very polite that way. You give them anything and they always thank you for it. They will not take anything that does not belong to them. They will ask you for it in- stead. I know that a good many of you people at home would love to see just what we boys are seeing and I only wish you could, fer it is very interesting and worthwhile. Before we get back we will see still more interesting sights and the most in- teresting of all is going to be when we get back there to the ones who have missed us so and loved us so. It is no fun being away for two or A three years. I know, I have already experienced it. ; In closing this letter I wish to say “hello” to you back there and I wish you all the best of luck and good health. You all back there are doing a very good job, and I know you will keep it up. | Thank you all very much, Pfe. Gilbert F. Huey, Sincerely, Somewhere - in South Pacific. Meets Old Friend September 19, 1943 Dear Sirs: Just a few lines enclosing my ad- dress. I have been here only a few days and so far it isn’t so bad. I had a long trip over here, flying | all the way. It was rather lonesome | traveling by myself. Just before I left the States, I visited Daytona Beach and was I United States and Britain, Winston Churchill would make a good prési- dent. I'm sure he would. surprised to see an old friend of mine, Ethel Bertram. She was walk- ing down the boardwalk and I called to her. She turned and stared for a few minutes before she recognized me. I hope, through the Post, I can thank her for the enjoyable eve- ning we had. I visited Algiers several times since I have been here and found it a very interesting city. Boy, if I could only speak a little French. I made my first flight last night and I'm still sweating it out F/O Glenn Lovglind, po N.F.S. ” Somewhere in North Africa P. S. The F/O stands for Flight Officer. ® And the N. F. S. stands for Night Fighter Squadron. Before en- tering service, Glenn was an elec- trician at the Boston Store and his old friend Ethel Bertram, both of them in the Class of '40 at K.T.H.S., was a switch board operator. Ethel’s with the WACS. Swell to hear from | you, Glenn.—Editor. From An Old Friend October 8, 1943 Dear Editor: Another move, another camp, and keeping in mind the compli- ments I've paid my other stops (not including Nashville), I will say none were as beautiful as this one. The surroudings are just as you would want them. Just imagine, a primary school on a lake shore surrounded on the oth- er two sides with orange groves and long rows of grapefruit trees. Now to complete the picture add a town of approximately 40,000 people and very nice hotels and theatres. Oh, yes, I must not forget to men- tion the planes. They are in. excel- lent condition and there are enough of them for all. Now that I've given you my con- ception of this wonderful camp, I want to express my appreciation for the Post. I really do enjoy reading it and I've found many boys here who enjoy the items that are in it. They ask such questions as: “What sort of a guy is this editor that “More than a newspaper, a community institution” THE DALLAS POST ESTABLISHED 1889 A non-partisan liberal progressive newsbaper pub- lished every Eriday morning at its plant on Lehman Ave- nus, Dallas, Penna., by the Dallas Post. - Entered as second-class matter at the post office at Dallas, Pa., under the Act of March 38, 1878. Subscrip- tien rates: $2.50 a year; $1.50 six months. No subscriptions accepted for less than six menths. Out-of- state subscriptions: $3.60 a year; $2.00 six months or less. ack issues, more than one week old, 16¢c each. Single copies, at a rate of 6c each, can be obtained every Friday marn- ing at the f{ollowing newsstands: Dallas—Tally-Ho Grille, Hislop’s Res- taurant; Shavertown, Evans’ Drug store; Trucksville—Leonard’s Store; Idetown—Caves Store; Huntsville— Hontz's Store; Harvey's Lake—Ed- wards’ Restaurant; lderson—Dea- ter’s Store. When requesting a change of ad- dress subscribers are asked to give their old as well as new address in order to prevent delay. We will not be responsible for the return of unsolicited manuscripts, photographs and editorial matter un- less self-addressed, stamped envelope is epclosed, and in no case will we be ferppusibje for this material for more than $0 days. National display advertising rates 60c per column inch. Local display advertising 40c per column inch. Classified rates 2c Minimum charge 25c. Unless paid for at advertising rates, we can give no assurance that announcements of plays, par- ties, rummage sales or any affairs for raising money will appear in a specific issue. In no case will such items be taken on Thursdays. rates per word. Editor and Publisher HOWARD W. RISLEY Editors %* S/Sgt. Howell E. Rees, U.S.A. % Lieut Warren Hicks, U.S.A. Associate Editor MYRA ZEISER RISLEY Contributing Editors ¢ + JOHN V. HEFFERNAN MRS. T. M. B. HICKS EDITH BLEZ DR. F. B. SCHOOLEY MARTHA HADSEL War-Time Correspondents MRS. J. GORDON HADSEL Advertising Department HELEN BOOTH % Harry Lee Smith American Red Cross Foreign Ser. Mechanical Superintendent HARRY E. POST Mechanical Department % S/Sgt. Alan C. Kistler, U.S.A. % Norman Rosnick, U.S.N. + S/Sgt. Alfred Davis, U.S.A. % Pvt. Wm. Helmboldt, U.S.A. % Pvt. Joseph Riehl, U.S.A. % In Armed Serviee. everyone writes to him ?”’ and a few of them usually say, “here comes Garrity’s Locator”, taking into con- sideration the Contact for Service- men. So I explained to them the setup and all they can say is, “Boy, that editor sure is doing his share in keeping up morale.” I usually add a few words in that line, but as the boys say here, “Not too much Browning, soldier”. So I will stop here and leave you with my new address. / # A/C Thomas P. Carrie 60th F. T. D., Lodwich School of Aero, Lakeland, Florida. ® Sgt. Larry Yeager, Venice, Flor- ida, was in to see us the other day, and he agrees that Lakeland is just about perfect. Also your picture post card confirmed it. Larry spent a Jot of time hanging around the Ration Board. I'll just have to ask Anna May what it was he wanted that is rationed.—Editor. { ) He’s A Combat Engineer f October 5, 1943 Dear Editor: I have received the Post here in the desert and I also received it in Tennessee on maneuvers, so I thought I had better notify you about the change in address. It sure is swell to pick up a paper from the home town and see what is going on. I've read in your Outpost where fellows say it is hot in many dif- ferent parts of the states. Well, they should just take a shoot at this des- ert. Yesterday we took a nine-mile hike and they wouldn't give us any water until we had finished the hike. Well, I guess that’s why they call us Combat Engineers. We hike like the Infantry, but when it comes | to building bridges we sort of out | point them there. I would like the Post sent to my correct address. Pvt. Chet Dropchinski, c/o Postmaster, L Los Angels, California. P. S. The scenery is beautiful— sand and more sand. ® Chet, where is Tommy ? Haven’t heard from him for months. Is he still boxing ? Mr. Snyder told me he was turned down by the army be- cause of deafness. Tell Tommy to write. It was swell to hear from you. Mr. Snyde® Clark Summit team trounced Dallas Township last Sat- urday.—Editor. : He's Right—We're Wrong Dear Mr. Risley: Kindly note my slight change of address. It isn’t much—in fact, it is only a difference of 150 feet, but still it might keep me from getting the Post. Believe me when I say that if everyone looks forward to the Post like I do, they are really more than welcoming it. Of course, my girl friend’s mail comes first. Enclosed you'll find one of those blanks, as I never did send any in and I sure don’t want the paper to stop coming. Another factor I wish to call your attention to is the birthday of a Joseph S. Wyant on September 20th. At least that is what I no- ticed. Mr. Risley, my birthday is on that date and you didn’t have it listed, so if by chance it is an error, kindly correct it. If there is another | Wyant whose birthday is then, kindly get me in touch with him. So, closing now and looking for- ward to another Post, I remain Your friends, : Pvt. Elmer Wyant, L. Fort Eustis, Va. : ® Gosh, I'm sorry. The birthday was yours, but somewhere between my list and the paper the name got mixed up. It won't happen again. Sincerely, fd Belated birthday greetings to you. —DMartha. ® © Our good friend Martha wos | probably .a little nervous that da Three handsome soldiers dropped in to see her at the same time. —Editor. Easy Does It October 4, 1943 Dear Martha: Here is the Free Posts for Sol- diers’ coupon that you asked me to fill out twice. In case you can’t read what is written on it, I will rewrite it in my letter. I seem to have missed a few copies of the Post. I was very glad | to get it today though. I don’t think there is a better paper being sent free to the fellows in the service. I think I am speaking for all the fel- lows in the service when I say that | and also when I say thanks again. | college. I get a chance to write | once in a while. When I write again | it will probably be to tell you I have ! changed my address again, or rath- i { We are still kept very busy here in | THE SEN TIMENTAL SIDE | By EDITH BLEZ Do you ever stop to think how much you will remember about all the things that happened while we were at war ? Will you ever forget our dear old points—God bless them! Will you ever forget the women who went to the store determined they would get a roast at any cost and when the butcher asked for the points, they just looked worried and said they didn’t THE LOW- DOWN HICKORY .GROVE I been on a little trip on the railroad—had to go. Waited until after Labor Day, but it was still crowded. Lots and lots of women. Couldn’t quite understand it. If you just want to travel around be- cause money is jingling in your jeans—and no other good reason—you are not shootin’ square with the railroads, or the Navy, and Army, and Marines. They gotta go—but it is not a pleasure trip. On the dining car I was sure surprised. They had not boosted prices. There was less variety, maybe, but plenty. Even straw- berries. And coffee—=pard- ner, my Susie don’t make it much better. Don’t go around pouncin’ on the railroads and saying they need to be taken over and run by the Government. She looks to me like they are doing a skookum job and should have 3 cheers —so0 I give ‘em same. And before signing off, I will tell you of the wait- er on the dining car. He musta been a gold-star boy—he was an old timer. I said to him, “You make your job look easy.” Think first and save steps, he says, and you will live longer—also, he says, you won't wear out your shoes. A colored Confu- clus. Yours with the low down, —JO SERRA. er, had the government change it for me. I am using my one and only study period to write this so I'll say so long for a while because I have only a few minutes left. id And. gain, thank you very much for the free Post. ~ Sincerely, Carl J. Dykman, 321°C. T.D., Bowling Green, Ky. ® Carl, now that you're “on the beam” how about joining the Script Club, too. I know one blue-eyed, redhead in particular, who would like to write to someone like you. How about it?—Martha. September 26, 1943. Dear Mr. Risley: At last my address is complete, so I have filled out the “Free Posts for Soldiers” blank. Now you can cross my name off your incomplete list. By the way, in looking over that list I saw Elwood and Howard Whitesell’s: names. They are in Australia I know, but I don’t have their full address. I will, how- ever try to get them for you. I was back from my furlough one week before classes started so we were given open post every night (Continued on Page Three) {| have that many! Women in 1943 Women, who for years have insisted that they knew little or nothing about mathematics, have learned to count and correctly or they have gone without food. Ten years from now, will you have forgotten how precious butter was in 1943? It sems almost impos- sible that we could forget what we went through to get a quarter pound of butter. I suppose there will be many women who would rather forget how they went from store to store getting more than their rightful share of butter. I sincerely hope their consciences keep them awake at night! We have learned how good butter really is, haven't we? Several years ago we didn’t have to look at our share of butter and wonder if it would possibly do for the evening meal, for the veg- etables we had planed to serve and for the morning toast. We didn’t have to figure butter by inches. Now we look on butter as something very very precious. Will you re- member how you suspected your best friends of using the black market when they served butter in J more than the usual quantity? Will you ever forget how utterly beautiful a leg of lamb or a roast of beef looked in the butcher’s case? Will you ever forget that the butch- er always said the same thing when you asked for beef or lamb? “No, | we didn’t get any this week, but we have ham.” We all try to be patrio- tic and most of us wouldn't take | what rightfully belongs to someone , else, but there have been times in 11943 when we could have cheer- i fully murdered the butcher and not ‘ been sorry. After this war is ended will we forget how we made our shoes last ? Will we remember that we shopped and shopped and shopped to get shoes that would last a long time /| because. we only had one ration point and we couldn’t waste its value ? : Then years from now when the roads are black with fast moving ‘ automobiles will you remember how we complaned because we couldn’t {get enough gas to go places? Will - ‘you remember the black markets and how we suspected everybody .else of using them? Will you re- | member how precious gas stamps _ were and what a tragedy it was if we lost one? Will you remember how much we walked and how we i worried if our shoes would last? Will you remember how difficult it ! was to get work done at the shoe- maker's and how long it took to get any kind of work done? Will you. ever foregt how you called and called the plumber or the heater man or any workman and how you | kept right on calling. They never arrived because there weren't any workmen. They were all at war or in the shipyards! Will you remember all the boys in uniform? Will you remember what a stir they created when they came home on furlough? Will you remember ten years from now that they fought our war for us. Will you? Harry E. Coal JACK DAVIES Spring Street, Shavertown Phone Dallas 106-R-7 The Answer To Her sd sy Keystone Features, Ine _ Prayer For Freedom Gas have learned to count all over again. -
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