EA PAGE TWO _ “The Totem Pole” ° By M. William Denison Editor, Pennsylvania News Service Democratic leaders in Pennsylvania have been raising a great rumpus and commotion over the meeting in Philadel- phia Tuesday of Republican leaders with chieftains of the powerful and moneyed Pennsylvania Manufacturers’ Associ- ation. “The great tumult’—as it might be called, reached a high pitch in the Legislature last week when Grampaw [Pettibone’s snores were drowned out by the loud moanings of the Democratic minority in both the Senate and House, But what's it all about? Here it is in a nut- shell: The Democrats have ing for these many years that the Republican party in Pennsyl- vania is dominated by the financial interests of Pennsylvania manu- facturers rather than the dictates of the people as a whole. The Democrats claim further that the Pennsylvania Manufacturers’ Association wields a heavy hand over the Republican party. Two of ‘the big names in the association which Democrats have [been prone to pick upon as the more or less invisible guides of the GOP party are Joseph R. Grundy and (G. Mason Owlett — two former Republican State Senators and both officials of the association. And ‘twas Tuesday in Philadel- phia that the association held its “annual meeting”’—with the list of “guests” including none other than Governor Duff, US. Senator Edward Martin and the Republican leaders of both the House and Senate. Dembocratic [State Chairman, J. Warren Mickle, roaring at startl Griampaw Pettibone over the wee! end, declared 'that “the bold effron- tery with which the Pennsylvania Manufacturers’ Association has taken over and apparently appro- priated for its own uses the Gen- eral ‘Assembly would be an alarming development ‘anywhere except in Pennsylvania.” “But Warren, I didn’t have any- thing to do with it—,” Grampaw Pettibone spluttered after he had recovered his adam's apple, only to be interrupted by the Demo- cratic [State Chairman, who com- mented with considerable heat: “Apparently the hour of decision is- near at hiand. The entire Repub- lican” “membership of the [General Assembly has been commanded to adjourn to Philadelphia ,where an extraordinary session will be held on Tuesday under Pennsylvania been chant- Manufacturers’ Association auspi- | 2 ces. Budget May Come Now Warily ‘Grampalw Pettibone re- called that [Senator John H. Dent, Democratic floor leader, remarked slyly on the floor of the Senate last week that it may even be pos- ' gible for a State budget to be drawn up after the meeting, and address- ing his Republican colleagues in the upper house, Senator Dent com- mented with amusement: “We'd like you to write us (the Democrats) la letter after the meet- ing with Mr. Grundy so ‘we can find out just what ‘the problems are here in Harrisburg.” Recalling that he was a member of the Joint Legislative Finance Committee asked for by Governor Duff to scan ‘the financial picture for Pennsylvania, the dark-haired Senator from Westmoreland (County continued with a glint in his eye: ‘Maybe I could come in to the dinner-meeting on the side—not to eat—but after all I am a member of the finance committee and I'm supposed to know about finances.” And in the House, aging Rep. Hiram G. Andrews, Democratic floor leader in that body, picked up the cudgel and told his colleagues that he would like to apologize to the House for his suggestion the. week before that the [Legislature recess until after ‘the legislative program had been mapped, asserting that after yesterday's meeting no such recess would (be mecessary because a program and budget would prob- ably be forthcoming without delay. Borothy RK. Worth’s : Country-Made EASTER CANDY fx F<’ °% GIFT BOXES Ny $1.25 = EASTER EGGS By Brrothy RK. Worth’s Assorted Flavors 10c—50c—$1.00 LeGrand’s Restaurant Main Street, Dallas > @ THE LOW DOWN FROM HICKORY GROVE Well folks, ithe topic today is, “Should we make the Govt. better versus just bigger land showier like we been doing for a dog's age.” [if folks were" getting happier and more con- tented under Big Govt., I would say, okay. But as fit is, with more murders, more ‘taxes, more divorces, ‘more delin- quency, less tranquility, fewen Kansas (City steaks—it is time to look under the covers. And that item of K.C. steaks, I hark back to when the Santa Fe served a ©6-bit dinner at fits scrumptious eating houses. The hotel manager himself, with a platter of sizzling steaks on the crook of his elbow, asked you which one—a big one or a smaller one. Govt. is now so big that it is stumbling over its own feet. Take housing. One Top Kick says rents should come down 10 per cent. Uncle Harry says, tut-tut, ‘taint so. And right here at Hickory there are itwo weather outfits. One says, fto- night it will rain and be warmer. The other gent says for the fruit and vegetable folks to get their heaters going —it will frost. And next day we find neither rain nor frost —and both gents are in ‘the weather dog-hoouse. And in. your own affairs, there is some Govt. guy watch- ing you or telling you whiat is (best to do or vice versa, land you know for sure that he is just guessing—or reading out of some book. My proposal is, cut 50% off all budgets— see what happens then to the Govt. and us. (Steaks might even get bigger. And the wea- ther does as it pleases anyway. Yours with ‘the low down, JO SERRA! = Hd “The Bookworm Mrs. Grace Livingston Hill, one of America’s best known authors, and one loved by young and old, died Monday at her home in Swarthmore, after an illness of six months. She was 81. Mrs. Hill, who had lived in Swarthmore since 1902 had suf- fered a general breakdown due to her advanced years and to hard work according to her daughter, Mrs. Wendall H. Walker, who was at her bedside when she died. [She was however, able to give lectures before religious groups, and to .conduct a ‘Sunday School Class near her home up until last year. Most popular of her books was “The Enchanted Bar,” published in 1937. Other best-sellers included “Crimson Roses,” “Tomorrow About This Time,” “Recreation’, and “The Tryat.” Mrs. Hill's 79th novel, ‘Where Ways Met,” was published only last January 8, by J. B. Lippincott (Co., Philadelphia, for whom she guar- anteed to write two or three books a year. She hlad written two books a year recently. The company reported nearly 4,000,000 copies of her works had been sold in the United States and thousands more abroad. Her novels were transplanted into almost every modern language. Religion and writing were mingled in her heritage. Her aunt, Isabella Alden, was a popular novelist. When she was ten, young Grace ‘wrote ‘The Esseltynes or Marguer- ite and Alphonse,” a tale of two for- lorn orphans adopted by a wealthy lady. [She wanted to be an artist and studied at the Cincinnati Art School and Elmira College, N. Y., for such a career. Later in life she recalled that she never did consciously pre- pare for the writing profession. In 1892 she was miarried to Rev. Thomas G. F. Hill of Pittsburgh, a Presbyterian minister, Mrs. Hil] explained she found her plots in “little incidents at home or in the street.” Mrs. Hill’s books have been called “sugar coated tracts,” a description she never disputed. She had been asked to tone down her evangel- istic messages, She had been known to vent her disapproval of a person by writing a book about him. She never lived a cloistered life. In her youth she played tennis and rode horseback expertly. And in later years she kept a busy schedule of lecture engagements, for which she declined a fee. THE POST, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1947 YOUR HEALTH From the Medical Society of the 'State of Pennsylvania and the Luzerne County Medical Society. = Tt is viands—nots glands—thalt cause obesity. Overeating, not some endocrine abnormality, causes overweight. [Strange that an individual when told thalt his overweight will shor- ten his life, keeps right on eating more food than he needs. What is ‘this great urge to eat, eat, eat ? Psychiatrists tell us that eating is an emotional outlet, ‘and may be under the influence of the sub- conscious mind. tensify the individual's appetite for food. Some of these he may recognize and control, but the unconscious tensions make it difficult for the person to restrict his intake of food. Unconscious drives are some- times so powerful that even [the threat of early death cannot induce the patient to refrain from ‘over- eating, Obese patients have been heard to remark, “I would rather die than starve!” The repentant alcoholic addict who realizes he is a social disgrace, but who cannot control his appe- tite for alcohol, displays a similar attitude. Treatment of the fat patient is based on an understanding of the psychological reasons for his over- eating. Certain drugs are at times pre- scribed bby ithe physician to suppress the desire to overeat. Education of parents in proper eating habits for their children is an ideal approach to the problem. Psychological training can be of benefit to the individual who sin- cerely desires to control his intake of food. DO YOU KNOW ? The 1945 production of sleep- 582,000 every man, woman and child in this country to sleep for each night for two weeks. A move is on to place barbiturate drugs under the Federal Narcotics ‘Act. From Pillar To Post (Continued from Page One) a = i the land and the direction of the wind, complicated by a devilish ingenuity in searching out the most undesirable spots for the depositing of snow. My guess at the begin- ning of winter was that the snow would race horizontally across the open prairie at the back and plaster itself sill-deep against the house, insulating it against draft while blocking entrance by the storm door. But no such thing happened. The area around the back is scoured as thoroughly as if a broom had been applied to the situation, and the snow that should have acted as insulation funneled itself into the driveway, packing itself as solidly as any iceberg. Good for the muscles, but tough on the dis- position. What does an evening grosbeak look like? [Common sense suggests buying a bird-book and boning up on local wildlife, but native inertia, combined with a lack of three dollars and ninety-eight cents, is against it. Besides, it is more fun to visualize birds from their names. An evening grosbeak sounds like a bird with an iridescent breast and neck, softly rosy and as beauti- ful as a quiet sunset, ‘with ‘a muted song like that of the mourning dove, And anybody who takes pen in hand to disillusion me ‘will reap nothing in the way of a reward for such statistical information but a Bronx cheer. Nobody can fool me on a robin, nor on a swallow, nor on a crow. On those three species I am letter perfect. Robins hop around on the lawn in search of elastic and re- luctant worms, swallows teach their young fo fly from the telephone wires just outside my window, and crows caw. A chickadee is prob- ably that globular little party who desgends in force upon the barberry hedge to gobble the red berries, while the black cats sit hopefully and with slavering jaws just beyond the prickles, praying for a miscalcu- lation 'and singing softly for their supper. There is another round little bird with a striped cap and a flirty tail, whose identity the birdbook would clear up in a min- ute. ; : I'm thinking of starting an As- sociation to Buy Mrs. Hicks A Bird- book, a volume profusely illustra- ted in color. 'A thin dime per person would entitle all and sundry to membership, all extra dimes to be donated to some Worthy Cause, such as the purchase of red flannel > Various psychological factors in- producing barbitufate drugs was | pounds—enough to put : THE DALLAS POST “More than a newspaper, a community institution” ESTABLISHED 1889 A non-partisan liberal progressive newspaper pub- lished every Friday morning at the Dallas Post plant Lehman Avenue, Dallas Pennsylvania. Entered as second-class matter at the post office at Dallas, Pa., under the Act of March 3, 1879. Subscrip- tion rates: $2.50 a year; $1.50 six months.. No subscriptions accepted for less than six months. Out-of state subscriptions: $3.00 a year; $2.00 six months or less. 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Unless paid for at advertising rates, we can give no assurance that an- nouncements of plays, parties, rummage sales or any affairs for raising money will appear in a specific issue. In no case will such items be taken on Thursdays. Editor and Publisher HOWARD W. RISLEY Associate Editor MYRA ZEISER RISLEY Contributing Editor MRS. T. M. B. HICKS undershirts for the moral uplift of the F iji Islanders. Come to think of it, there would be points about expanding the as- sociation to cover the purchase of fifty strawberry plants and a few {Too of asparagus, as on the whole more edible, and a hopeful fore- shadowing of the coming of spring. PIS. There is a small shoot pricking through the ground in the sheltered area to the south. We planted crocus bulbs in that spot late last fall, and the black cats may have overlooked a few. Per- haps we, too, may report a crocus in Barnyard Notes, given a few sunshiny days and a little less SNOW. Red Cross Workers Named For Trucksville Mrs, A. C. Baltimore, captain, and Mrs. Edward V. Hartman, co-cap- tain, have announced the following list of workers for the Red Cross drive in the Trucksville area: Mes- dames IC. F, Kresge, Albert Blase, Burdette Crane, Jacob Beline, Al- bert Williams, Edgar Sutton, Dana Sickler, William Gregory, Samuel Miller, ‘Alfred Webster, ‘A. iS. James, ‘Leon W. Beisel, Ben. Post, Neual Kester, 'S. D. Finney, Cedric Grif- fith, Joseph Cannon, Donald Miller, Lloyd Evans, Wilbur Nichols, Verna Isaacs and Esther Saxe. When Killers Meet By ROLAND BELL SHOEMAKER Trucksville, Pa. Tartu, the big reddish-brown spider, stretched his hairy legs and admired himself. Each leg the length of @ man’s finger, these eight members held up a fuzzy body the size of a thumb. Tartu was a powerful fellow and quite sure of himself as he ambled forth from his deep lair to blink in the bright sunlight. He was a bird- eater and frequently roamed (the trees or hid in the banana bunches, ready to spring like a tiger 'on his prey. Tartu’s bright eyes - suddenly focused; he tensed with a swift gathering in of his powerful legs. Directly in his path stood Skull, the whip-tailed scorpion who was his most deadly enemy. His eight walking legs were firmly planted on Tartu’s pathway, while his two claws waved menacingly. His tail, with its poison barb in which the black drops plainly showed, quiv- ered and danced in anticipation of Tartu’s next move. It was not slow in coming, for Tartu was noted as a speedy mover. He flashed quickly to the left and moved straight in to seize Skull, wrapping his many legs around him in an enveloping tangle. His ven- omous-looking mouth tore at ‘Skull’s unprotected underparts with skill and precision, leaving several gap- ing wounds. Meanwhile, Skull had not been idle. His poison barb struck again and again into Tartu’s body. Now the poison drops were no longer visible. Tartu released his hold and staggered back: [Skull never moved. Then slowly he settled down where he was, quivered and lay still. His limp form relaxed as death came to claim him. Tartu looked on uncertainly, for Skull’s powerful poison was doing its deadly work. Then slowly his many legs closed round him in a ball. + As they folded, his bright, beady eyes glazed over. Tartu rolled forward a little—dead like his enemy. The fight was over and won by the unseen third presence, Dea hol. had conquered them both. Rotarians Hear Talk’ On Natural Resources Rotary Club held its regular weekly meeting at the Irem Temple Club. ‘Guest speaker of the even- ing was Steven Emanuel, principal of Dobson School Wilkes-Barre, and president of the United (Sportsman. Mr. Emanuel talked on ‘‘America the Beautiful”, and ‘IConservation of our Natural Resources.” Movies were showned on game and wild life. President John (Corliss pre- sided. Present: Don Evans, Oswald Griffith, Charles Lee, Doc. Ruther- ford, Mead MacMillan, Dan Rich- ards,Harry Ohlman, Jim Besecker, Sheldon Mosier, Don Ide, Nes Gar- inger, Ralph Hallock, Floyd Cham- berlain, David Jenkins, Dan Robin- hold, Warren Taylor, L. L. Richard- son, Dr. Bud ISchooley, Harold Payne, Jim Huston, James Lacey, L. F. Kingsley, George Metz, Warren Yeisiey. 3 Expresses Gratitude Members of the family of Baby Keith Wagner wish fo express their gratitude to the many friends and neighbors who so kindly assisted them in their recent bereavement. feeds. to chickens. Trucksville They Are Started Right! The hen can be no better than the chick and the chick can be no better than the feed it is raised on. For guaranteed good results every time use Purina Complete rations for your flock, from chicks TRUCKSVILLE MILLS “STANLEY MOORE, Prop. Pennsylvania NY Barnyard Notes SJ February thins away. The days lengthen. low in the western skies. A new moon hangs F In ‘the cold, frosty winter evenings, the constellations march across the early evening heavens in their great- est glory. The great hunter, Orion, sweeps to the kill midway on the horizon beyond Huntsville Dam, while high above College Miseri- cordia and over Chestnut Ridge the Great Bear and the Little Bear The Twins—Castor and [Pollux—{first magni ride almost overhead. Far chase cach others tails. tude stars in the constellation, Gemini, 4 to the southwest The [Seven Sisters dimly carry their lights toward od North Mountain. The seasons turn as do the stars, bolore another new moon in the western sky March will be nearing its end, and spring peepers February, shortest of months, passes on leaving its trail of beauty onthe brown hillsides, among the pine thickets and over all the land. The blanketed meadows, the frozen ponds await ‘the roar of March to release them from their chains, and the refreshing rains of |April to awaken them from their sleep. Beneath the frost of February the forsythia and maple buds will be calling from the lowlands. await the touch of Spring. This is the time to prune grape vines and to study plans for Brush up on the subject by consulting Luzerne County Agricultural Association or reading a couple of improving spring lawns. Do It Now ° good books jon the subjects at Memorial Library. Tuberous begonias, barely covered in flats of damp peat- moss, will soon spring into life indoors to brighten many a shaded spot this summer with their colorful camelia and carna- tion-shaped blooms. After studying those great works of the printer’s art—the seed catalogues—especially those of the Wayside Nurseries, Flowerfield Bulb Farm and the old standard, Burpees, Myra and I have bought: enough flower and vegetable seeds to plant the state of Texas, or if Catalogues Pile High not the Lone Star state, then Rhode Island, ‘at least. A hundred catalogues pile on our library table. the seed companies get you on their mailing list just as soon as you order a package of zinnia seed or Russian sunflowers from ‘one of . those bargain ads in the Rural New Yorker. folder from a fellow named Robinson in Connecticut who will send his plan on how ‘to become independet on an acre for a dollar. Let the evening grosbeaks look to their laurels. Scott has had two red-winged blackbirds at her feeding tation on Mt. Greenwood Road for the past week. That's one for Frank Jack- son to explain. Mrs. Scott says the reason no grosbeaks have stopped in our orchard is because we've failed to provide sunflower seed. Two quarts a day fis the allotment she provides at 30c per pound. are hearty “eaters and so far have consumed ‘We remember George Dean told us last spring that the Shrine View grosbeaks kept him busy hauling feed and sunflower The grosbeaks also love hot cakes The grosbeaks 125 pounds. seeds. one reason she Red-winged Blackbirds them to ribbons. Red-winged blackbirds in February! it. No bird guide gives a clue to their premature arrival on the dry hillsides of Mt. Greenwood but Bliss Carmen’s poem below gives a hint that they are among the first to awaken the swamps and low- iands in April. Received a lovely little book of verse “Woven Of The Bky,” mvrit- ten by [Sister Miriam of (College Misericordia. Boston, Mass., it is a beautiful volume in its simplicity. ‘We ied THE ED NE erald t e April pomp’ isa First of 'the moving vanguard In front of the spring you come, Where flooded waters sparkle ‘And streams in the twilight hum. You sound the note of the chorus By meadow and woodland pond, Till, one after one up-piping, A myriad throats respond. I see you, Brother, I see you, ‘ With scarlet under lyour wing, Flash through the ruddy maples, Leading the pageant of spring. Earth has put off her raiment Wintry and worn and old, For the robe of a fair young syibil, Dancing ‘in green and gold. —Bliss Carmen. Sister Miriam especially her poem: 'GIVE ME THE.SUN Give me the sun, a bird, a flower And I shall ‘spin you a song That will live an hour. Give me a heart, a joy, a tear, But give me a love death cannot sever, And T shiall weave you a song That will Jive a year. And I will build you ‘a song To live forever. Funny how And now comes a big Mrs. Robert Mrs. Scott says that’s and Bob have so many of them these winter morn- ings; but there is no sugar or syrup on them when the birds tear We could hardly believe Done by Mosher Press, The first great human value in a refined funeral ser- | vice is reverence, which definitely is a part of our, | ALFRED D. BRONSON service. Funeral Director Phone Dallas 363-R-4 “As Near, As The Telephone”
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