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Editorially Speaking:
Report From The Middle West
(Continued from Page Three)
neer terms. But the Sheppelman-Booth committee were
wrathful in comment; they filled the air with indigo adjec-
tives; or shall we say with verbiage as purple at least as
the flower of alfalfa? ‘This country is being horn-swog-
gled,” said Booth. “There’s not a darn thing that these
bureaucrats haven’t messed up. Why, when one of the
government lawyers came into the session he told us the
best thing we could do was to forget our protest, grow
what we were told to grow and sell at the prices listed; if
we didn’t, then we'd better pay our fines and shut up. He
even boasted that he had collected fees of $5,000 to $7,000
a week from farmers that didn’t behave.”
So, I read the gentlemen the last paragraph of Ernie
Pyle’s letter, as follows: “A lot of people are asking about
the boys at the front, whether they want to vote. Well,”
wrote Pyle, “if voting means filling out a lot of govern-
ment forms, the boys have one universal re-action. They
say: 'To hell with it.” And if sending over the ballots
means the loss of a single cigar in their rations, they say:
‘To hell with it again, we'd rather have the extra cigar.”
And that reminded Sheppelman and Booth of a rhyme that
had come in from the Southwest Pacific. I am passing it
on to you:
On a lovely little island
In a sunny tropic sea
Lived a chattering tribe of monkeys
Just as happy as could be
And they lived on nuts and berries
That were plenty everywhere
With some herbs and blossoms extra
So that each could have his share
Now, while most of them were happy
There were some who seemed to feel
If they only had a leader
They would get a better deal
So they had a big election
And they did the thing up grand,
They chose a great big smiling ape
To preside o’er Monkey Land
He made a great acceptance speech
And said, “My friends, I guess
You have named the proper monkey,
I will straighten out this mess.”
Then he said, “If we would prosper
~ It is very plain to me
We must take one-half the cocoanuts
And dump them in the sea.”
“And then a little later on
‘When other nuts shall grow
We will have to work together
And plow up each second row.”
And so they dug the jungle nuts
And worked and worked for days,
For he promised them a profit
On the ones they didn’t raise
But later they discovered
In their leader’s first report
That the normal crop they needed
"Would be running very short.
Now the little baby monkeys
With their hair as soft as silk
Had depended on the cocoanuts
To provide them with their milk
And before the common monkeys
Knew what it was all about
The smart ones cornered all the milk
And the rest were left without.
Now the stronger ones are hungry
And the weaker ones are dead
And the scheme to rule the jungle
Has gone sadly in the red.
Of course, it’s monkey-business
And we really shouldn’t fuss
But what if some big ape should try
To pull that stunt on us!
(You don’t like it? Well, the censors thought it was all right.)
THE POST, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1944
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From
Pillar To Post
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for some special occasion when an
otherwise prosaic. meal might need
a lift. We planned on hot biscuits
with plenty of butter for Sunday
night supper, with the strawberry
jam as a crowning touch. We would
need nothing else, we thought. Just
plenty of biscuits and the entire
jar of jam.
About a month later the pantry
+ yielded nothing of any interest on
| Sunday evening. The jam and bis-
cuit spree seemed indicated.
The biscuits came smoking from
the oven, and Tom offered to open
the strawberry jam. With an ex-
pert twist of the wrist he unscrewed
the metal cap, and a yard of coil-
ing spring in a brown cotton jacket
came leaping out of the jar and
took him in the nose. The crushed
fruit we had been gloating over
was nothing more nor less than a
liner of colored paper.
We ate the biscuits with plenty
of butter, that being in the days
before butte? cost sixteen points
and sixty cents per pound, but we
| never quite recovered from the
| shock to our sensibilities. We have
| eaten a great deal of strawberry
jam since that day, but that lost
jam lives on in our memory like the
Lost Chord. Nothing is ever able to
equal it.
With that experience in mind, we
were much relieved when we found
that the Christmas boxes which
finally did arrive in India were not
the ones that contained the items
from the novelty shop.
One of the presents insured a
superlative job of tent-cleaning
and boot-polishing from the native
boy assigned to the officers’ quar-
! ters. He was so smitten with it that
i he spent most of his spare time in
the tent, hoping for another look.
He finally brought his wife and his
eight stair-step children around for
a command performance.
The present was an animated
edition of “Little Black Sambo”,
and an equally lively copy of ‘The
Gingerbread Boy”.
Little Black Sambo’s green um-
brella opened and shut, the tigers
ferociously requisitioned first one
and then another article of cloth-
ing from poor little shivering Black
Sambo, lashing their tails in rage
and opening their jaws threaten-
ingly. Little Black Sambo waited ap-
prehensively behind a tree while the
trieving his clothing as the tigers
discarded it. When the tigers were
reduced to a pool of melted butter,
Little Black ‘Sambo patriotically
salvaged the fat and took it home
to his mother. The last animated
page showed Little Black Sambo
eating enough pancakes to give
even a copper-lined constitution the
grandpappy of all stomach-aches.
The Gingerbread-Boy book was
equally delightful. The native chil-
dren particularly enjoyed the page
that showed a cow extending a
moist pink tongue while the Gin-
gerbread boy leaped back in alarm.
They watched pop-eyed while he
made his escape from one hungry
animal after another, and finally
breathed an eight-side gasp of re-
tigers engaged in a free-for-all, re- |
lief when the Gingerbread boy
The
Listening Post
(Continued from Page Three)
ON THE STATEMENTS of a 13-
year-old Pittston girl, Wilkes-Barre
police took into custody this week
a fifth business man. This time
from Forty Fort. Four other Wilkes-
Barre men were held on charges of
sodomy. The girl, picked up on
February 1, told police she had met
the men while selling shoe laces,
razor blades and other items in
Wilkes-Barre during the past year.
: FIVE WYOMING VALLEY BANKS
have passed their quotas in the
Fourth War Loan drive. Wilkes-
Barre Deposit and Savings is first
with 193 per cent in sales, while
second place is held by Miners’ Na-
tional. Bank of Wilkes-Barre, with
144 per cent. Total sales for Wyo-
ming Valley reached $14,058,082
which is 80 per cent of the $17,613,-
836 quota the banks assigned for
the campaign.
ADOLPH HITLER'S 32-year-old
nephew, William Patrick Hitler, has
passed his physical examination and
may soon be accepted in the Navy.
Although a British citizen, he was
obliged by his draft board at Long
Island City, to fill out Form 304
dealing with aliens and enemy
aliens, which caused him to be re-
jected by the Army in 1942. Mr.
Hitler has been a frequent visitor
in Kingston and Wilkes-Barre.
FORMER GOVERNOR Arthur H.
James, of Plymouth, has been ap-
pointed to the State Superior Court
and will run with organization sup-
! port for the Republican nomination
for a full ten-year term at the April
25 primary. James will thus return
to public office alittle more than a
year after he relinquished the gov-
ernorship to Edward Martin in Jan-
uary, 1943.
TWO-YEAR-OLD Jule Ann Ful-
mer,. daughter of Seaman 2/c and
Mrs. George Fulmer, was engulfed
in a 30-foot deep cave on Mill
street, Pittston, early Tuesday aft-
ernoon. Rescue crews of 15 men
each working in two hour turns,
failed tosfind the child’s body after
removing 100 tons of debris. Mayor
Reilly insisted the crews continue
excavation until she is found, in
spite of a 1000 to 1 chance that she
may have escaped death. Efforts
have been made to notify her
jaghen who is on active sea duty.
leaped safely into his mother’s arms
on the last page.
The young Lieutenant made a
stab at translating the text into
Urdu, but the stair-step children
were too deeply engrossed in the
animated pages to pay much atten-
tion to the text. To them the whole
performance was black magic, and
the books were untouchable.
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The potash in 100 pounds of mixed fertilizer is expressed in the last of the
three figures printed on every fertilizer bag.
Make sure that the fertilizer you buy contains the K-O
being recommended by your official agricultural advisers for
good yields of the crops you intend to grow. Only when
enough potash is supplied, can full benefit of the other plant
foods in the mixture be obtained.
Write us for free information and litera-
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& PRODUCT OF DAILEY MILLS INC.
BINGHAMTON, N. Y.
TRUCKSVILLE MILL
= Lehman School Board
Names Two New Teachers
Mrs. Earl Weidner, of Dallas,
was elected Monday evening by
Board of Directors of Lehman
Township to fill the vacancy left
by the recent resignation of Mrs.
Beatrice Roberts. Mrs. Roberts ex-
pects to move to Wilkes-Barre
shortly. Mrs. Weidner is a grad-
uate of Bloomsburg State Teachers’
College.
Mr. Howard Hendricks, of Leh-
man, was elected to take the place
of Mrs. Warren Taylor, teacher in
the Junior High School.
Louis Taylor Chosen
Potentate Of Shrine
Louis B. Taylor was elected po-
tentate of YAARAB Temple of the
Shrine, recently, in Atlanta, Ga.
Mr. Taylor is an executive of the
Woolworth Comypany there and
husband of the former Ruth Gor-
don, of Dallas. His wife and daugh-
ters visited Mr. and Mrs. Fred Gor-
LEGAL NOTICE
Township Road Board is completed
and can be inspected by any Tax-
payers at the home of the Secre-
tary, Lillian F. Kunkle, until March
1, 1944. 6-1t
SHERIFF'S SALE
On Friday, March 10, 1944, at
10:00 o'clock A. M., in Court Room
No. 1, Court House, Wilkes-Barre,
Pa. by virtue of Fi Fa. No. 50,
March Term, 1944, issued out of the
Court of Common Pleas of Luzerne
tain lot of land situate in the Town-
ship of Hanover, Luzerne County,
being Lot No. 102
on J. K. Weitzenkorn plot of lots
Neo. 7,
Heights, recorded in Luzerne County
Map Book No. 1, page 354, and be-
ing the property of John M. Fritz
Pennsylvania,
known as Buttonwood
don this fall.
and Laura K. Fritz, his wife, and
The TRADING POST
A POST CLASSIFIED AD
RESULTS QUICKLY AND CHEAPLY
IS THE PLACE TO GET
PHONE DALLAS 300 ® TWO CENTS PER WORD @ 25c MINIMUM
For Sale— : ;
Weekend special—two dozen full-
sized eggs, 75c. Bring own con-
tainers. Howard Risley’s Barnyard.
Call at Post. 6-1t
Pure bred Holstein heifers. Bull, 10
months. 12 nearest dams average
960 lbs., fat, 4 per cent test. John
Hildebrant, R. D. 2, Dallas. Phone
468-R-11. : 6-1t
6-room bungalow, chicken coop,
road from Demunds Corners to
Kunkle. Carl German. 6-1t
! Few shares of stock of First Na-
tional Bank, Dallas. $40 per
share. Write Box B, c/o Dallas Post.
6-3t
i Phone 158-R-13.
1
°
Trucksville, Pa.
Three-year-old stallion, sister two
years old. Riding and work horses.
Cows. Also baled hay, pony saddles,
and driving harness. Stolarick Bros.,
Lehman. 6-3t
Three high-producing young cows.
Two Holsteins, one Guernsey. One
produced 10,197 pounds last lacta-
tion on 3.8 test. Am replacing all
grade animals with pure-breds.
Ralph Sands, Carverton. Phone
Dallas 424-R-O. 6-1t
111 Church street, Kingston, one
fine large home, all modern, large
lot, garage, $3700, with $2000 cash.
Balance easy. Elmer Parrish, Dal-
las. 6-1t
Four pigs. 75 to 100 pounds. Giles
Wilson. Call 298-R-16. 6-1t
Oak slab wood at mill, near Beau-
mont. Ruggles Brothers. 6-tf
Team of horses, weight from 27 to
28 hundred. Will sell one or both.
Also Chore Boy milking machine in
good condition. Philip Kunkle.
Phone Dallas 458-R-17. 5-1t
Fine selected breeding cockerels,
Barred Rocks, White Leghorns,
New Hampshire Reds. Henney’s at
Kunkle. 5-2t
Have a few New Hampshire and a
few White Rock laying pullets. |
40c per pound. Howard Risley’s
Barn Yard, Dallas. 5-1t
Large wooden packing boxes. Sizes
25x38 and. 32x44 jnches; 12 in-
ches deep. $1 each. The Dallas Post.
5-2t
Fire Wood: Stove wood, furnace
chunks, fireplace logs. Walter B. |:
Shaver, Pioner avenue, Shavertown.
4-tf |
|
Good laying hens, 500 White Leg- |
horns and 100 Reds, W. T. Payne |
Estate. Apply Irving Darrow, 471 |
Wyoming avenue, Kingston, Pa. l
3-3t |
Buy quality chicks direct from our
breeder Hatchery. All eggs pro-
duced on our own farm from high |
productive and blood tested breed- |
ers. New Hampshire Reds and Red |
Rock Cross. $13 per hundred.
Maywood Poultry Farms,
Benton, Penna. 3-3t
Black Scranton Coal Range. $25.
Dallas 300. 50-1t
1936 Plymouth Coupe.
Risley, Dallas.
Howard :
53-tf |
1
Coal—Raiph B. Lewis, 128 Shaver
Ave., Shavertown. Phone Dallas
253-R-8. 43-tf
Parts and service fer all makes of
washers and vacuum cleaners.
Rebennack & Covert, 267 Wyoming
Awve., Kingsten, Pa. Phone 7-4514.
Baby Chicks—Feb. and March New
Hampshire and Rock Red Cross.
Straight run 12c, Pullets 24c, Red
Cockerels 8c, Cross Cockerels 10c,
delivered. Fresh blood test and best
breeders. Joseph Davis, Leraysville,
Pa. Phone 31-R-11.
3-tf ;
For Sale—
Upright, mahogany, Baus piano.
Giles Wilson. Call 298-R-16. 6-1t
Buction Sale—
Saturday, February 19, 1 o'clock
sharp, at Wesley Cease Farm, on
road betwen Lehman and Sweet
Valley. All kinds of farm equip-
ment, household furniture, includ-
ing all kinds of old fashioned dish-
es. Mrs. A. McLaughlin owner,
Herman Sands, auctioneer. 6-1t
Lost—
Black leather fleece-lined, one-
finger mitten. Return to Dallas
County against Edward Wysocki
and Anna Wysocki, his wife, willl
be sold the surface of all that cer- |
being 25 feet in front on the West-
The annual Budget of the Dallas ( erly side of Rutter Street and 120
feet, more or less, in depth. Im-
proved with a two and one-half
story frame dwelling, and being the
property described in Luzerne
County Deed Book No. 667, page
391.
David C. Vaughn,
Sheriff.
Collins & Collins,
Attorneys.
6-3t
PUBLIC NOTICE
Public notice is hereby given by
The Town Council of The Borough
of Courtdale that the proposed bud-
get for The Borough of Courtdale
for the year 1944 is now and will
be available for public inspection at
the home of the Borough Secretary,
H. W. Edwards, 25 Hill St., Court-
dale, Pa., for a period of fifteen (15)
days following the publication of
this notice. February 4, 1944.
H. W. EDWARDS,
Borough Secretary.
5-1t
LEGAL
NOTICE is hereby given that a
petition has been filed in the Court
of Common Pleas of Luzerne County *
to No. 358 March Term, 1944, pray-
ing for a decree to change the name
of Francis T. Matukaitis to Francis
T. Mathus; Constance Matukaitis to
Constance Mathus and Mary Ann
Matukaitis to Mary Ann Mathus.
The Court has fixed Saturday, April
15, 1944, at 10:00 o'clock A. M., for
a hearing on said petition.
John R. Reap,
Attorney for Petitioners.
6-3t
LEGAL
NOTICE is hereby given that a
petition has been filed in the Court
of Common Pleas of Luzerne County
to No. 375 March Term, 1944, pray-
ing for a decree to change the name
of Charles Michael Visgaitis to
Charles Michael West; and Anne
Marie Visgaitis to Anne Marie West.
The Court has fixed Saturday, April
15, 1944, at 10:00 o'clock A. M. for
hearing on said petition.
John R. Reap,
Postoffice, Main street. 6-1t
Work Wanted—
Do you have a full or part-time job
for me? Not particular. Referen- |
ces available. Kathleen Keller, Eliza- |
beth street. 6-1t |
Help Wanted—
Housekeeper to take complete
charge of home while mother
works. Phone Dallas 317-R-3, or
58-R-2. 6-2t
Woman for housework, one in fam-
ily, $8 a week. Phone Plymouth
9-1586. ° 6-2t
Wanted girl or woman for house
work, no laundry. Sleep in or out.
Dallas 249-R-3 after 6 p. m., or Sun-
day. 5-tf
Wanted to Borrow—
We need badly sewing machines,
either treadle or electric, portable
or otherwise, full or part time for
Red Cross work shop. Will call for
them and give them best of care.
Mrs. J. C. Fleming. Phone 150. 5-tf
Wanted To Buy—
Fresh cows, calves, beef cows. Will
pay highest prices. Willard R.
Lansberry, Harvey's Lake 3276.
3-4t
Highest prices paid for butt oak
logs. Ruggles Brothers, Kingston
7-2181. 1-4¢
By Ike Mellner, Livestock dealer,
fresh cows and close springers
and all kinds of beef cattle and
calves. Will pay highest prices.
Write to Ike Mellner, 114 Second
Avenue, Kingston or phone Kingston
72746 and we will call on you. 1-1t
Personal—
Let Marguerite give you your next
permanent wave, if you like ex-
perienced workmanship. Right on
the bus line. Marguerite's Beauty
Shop, Main road, Fernbrook. Phone
3917. 23-tf
Who To Call—
We remove dead stock free of
charge. We refund telephone call
expense. Call Dallas 433-R-9. Las-
kowski Rendering Works. 51-1t
For prompt removal of dead, old
disabled horses, sows, mules,
phone Carl Crockett, Muhlenberg
19-R-4. Phone charges paid. 244
Reupholstering—
Lowest prices—guaranteed work-
manship write or phone 7-5636
John Curtis, 210 Lathrop Street,
Kingston. g
Attorney for Petitioners.
6-3t
Spring House Cleaning
Time Will Soon Be
Here!
We have a complete line of
house cleaning needs.
Genuine
0-CEDAR WALL
OIL MOPS
89c, $1.25, and $1.50 each
DUSTMASTER
Reversible WALL MOPS.
$1.50 each.
CLOTHES BASKETS
No. 2 WILLOW
with strong reinforced sides
and bottom. $2.89 each.
No. 3 size, $3.89 each.
WOODEN MOP STICKS
Common household size,
929¢. each. Janitor size, 55¢
each.
We have a complete assort-
ment of WET MOPS. in 12
o0z., 16 oz., 20 oz., and 24 oz.
sizes.
“RIDJID” IRONING
BOARDS
with strong metal braces
and extra heavy wooden
legs. $4.98 each.
IRONING BOARD PAD
and cover sets. From 59c to
$1.85 each.
We have a most complete
line of brushes for your var-
ious house cleaning needs.
“SUPREME” STEEL
WOOL
I 1b. package only 50c each.
BRILLO
Hotel size packages, 60c
each.
No. 7 Rong, well-made,
household corn brooms.
$1.10 and $1.25 each.
We have a complete stock
of
“Rerowax”’, “All-Nu”
“Johnson's” Waxes and
Polishes.
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~ Main Street Dallas
Telephone Dallas 121