fditerially Speaking:
House Cleaning
Due In Colleges
James B, Conant, president of Harvard, recently said: “The
nation has a right to demand of its educational institutions that
the teachers dealing with controversial subjects shall be fearless
seekers of the truth and careful scholars rather than propagan-
dists.
But granted honesty, sincerity, and ability, there must be
tolerance of a wide diversity of opinion.”
No one can quarrel with that dectrine, and it could well
serve as a model for any university in a free country. However,
it is evident to anyone who has even, a cursory knowledge of
modern teaching that much of
problems is warped and biased.
individual teachers who are trying to sell some ism or other.
the instruction on controversial
This is done, in many cases, by
And
it is done in many other cases by text books which bend the truth
in order to hew to what amounts to the party line.
It is pone thing, for instance,
to show the student what social-
ism and communism and the nationalization of industry involve,
as contrasted with a capitalist or free economy.
It is a very dif-
ferent thing to deliberately make it appear that the super state
(is the ‘answer to the ills of mankind, and unfortunately that is
‘an impression that emanates from many colleges today.
It is all
JL well to discuss what may be wrong with the American sys-
| at the same time, we must honestly teach what is right
for the masses of people,
“In the” American system, as proved by the results it has achieved
Academic freedom is as basic as any other freedom. It must
be protected from fanatics on either the right or the left wings
of political and economic thought.
But it must justify itself, as
Dr. Conant said, by fearlessly seeking the truth — not by tearing
down the principles which make possible the freedom of some
professors in American universities to promote political and eco-
nomic philosophies which, if adopted, would destroy the liberties
and opportunities on which our nation was built.
FROM.
PILLAR TO POST
By Mrs. T. M. B. Hicks, Jr.
There is a course which I should like to see incorporated into the cur-
riculum of the High Schools in the Back Mountain area, one which is
given in some of the more advanced schools in the United States.
This
is an orientation course in Family Relations, covering all phases of normal
family life, and seeking to reconcile the varying demands of a growing
family with fairness to all parties
concerned.
There are too many families in
which the children are at logger-
heads with the parents, or where
the parents make no effort to
understand the child’s point of
view and to satisfy his innate sense
of justice, which in point of fact
is usually sharper than that of
an adult.
The other side of the coin is the
growing child’s inability to put him-
self in his parent's place and to
understand what the adults of a
iamily are up against in providing
food, shelter, clothing, and in curb-
in, dangerous social tendencies on
the part of their young.
ailing to
realize that they are the product
of hard work and sacrifice on the
part of their parents. Parents won-
der why their children seem un-
grateful, not taking into account
their actual ignorance of what it
takes to make a household tick.
Adolescents feel that they, and
they alone, invented youth. To
them, their parents are completely
ageless and have had no background
of similar turmoil. Parents forget
their own growing-pains and are
prone to skip lightly over the
period extending from twelve to
fourteen to complete maturity.
With the marriage of the children,
parents find to their boundless
amazement that increasingly over
the passage of years they no longer
own their children, but their chil-
dren own them. If they are un-
able or unwilling to make the neces-
sary adjustments, they are on the
well-beaten path to an embittered
old age.
It is to bridge the gap between
the generations that the course in
Family Relations is given. One age
passes into another age so imper-
ceptibly that human beings must
be prepared for the closing of one
door and the opening of another.
There must be resources that can
be drawn upon, inner strength and
understanding, a willingness to
relinquish, an ability to put away
childish things, a determination to
mature and then to age gracefully.
There are too many adults who
feverishly cling to youth, long aféer
youth is past. There are too maay
twenty-year-olds who refuse to ac-
cept responsibility.
An impersonal course in Family
Relations, with an open forum for
free discussion, case histories cited,
every-day problems assigned for
study and analysis and possible
solution, might be the answer to
many vexing questions. Such a
course has brought excellent results
.in some of the more progressive
schools.
It would probably be difficult to
find the right teacher for a course
of this sort. It would need some-
body with a warm human under-
standing, somebody who could com-
mand real respect combined with
affection from the students, a per-
son in whom confidence would bel:
placed. A person who probably
would not know all of the answers
off hand, but who would be willing
to work them out.
Probably, in the words of the
ye who gazed for the first
ime upon a giraffe, “Shucks, there
ain’t no sech animile.”
Klinetob Will
Leave Church
Was Former Principal
In Dallas Township
Rev. Corey B. Klinetob, pastor of
Luzerne Methodist Church, announ-
ced that he will retire to make his
home on Cape Cod at the annual
session of the Wyoming Conference
opening. in Wilkes-Barre on April 7.
of Miss Bess Klinetob of Sweet Val-
ley. He'resigned that position when
he entered .Prew Theological Sem-
inary to study for the ministery.
He was ordained a deacon in 1909
by Bishop Moore and joined the
conference that spring. While in
Dallas he boarded with Mr. and
Mrs. Ralph Rood.
He has served charges at Eaton-
ville; Rendham, Firwood, Clarks
Summit, Dunmore, Nanticoke, Peck-
ville, Embury of Scranton and Lu-
zerne.
For eight years he was manager
of the Institute at Sidney, N. Y.
and for more than twenty years he
has been a member of the Board of
Ministerial Training of which he is
now chairman.
His wife is the former Miss M.
Frances Jacobus, Tawasco, N. J.
whom he met while on a preaching
assignment while he was a student
at Drew.
They have four sons, one of
whom, Rev. Hugh G. Klinetob, is
pastor at Moscow, Pa.
Two Teams Ask
To Join League
Bi-County Group, Will
Meet On Monday Night
Re-organization oe and elec-
tion of officers of the Bi-County
“seball League will be held Mon-
de , night at Monroe Township
} _h School at Beaumont.
Last year there were seven teams
in the League: Beaumont, East Dal-
las, Noxen, Vernon, Orange, Car-
verton and Mill City. Applications
for franchises from Shavertown and
Harding will be acted upon at Mon-
day night’s meeting.
George Gay of Tunkhannock is
League president and Arch Austin
of Beaumont is secretary. After
the election oi rofficers, schedules
will be drawn up. Each team will
play fifteen games.
All managers have been requested
to submit their rosters of players
and to come prepared to pay their
franchise fees.
All players must live in the Back
Mountain area in order to be eligi-
ble for team membership.
Back Mountoin League has been
in operation more than fifteen years,
the only interruption in its activities
coming during the war years when
few communities were able to put
teams on the field.
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Back Mountain Highway Deaths and
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Vol. 58, No. 14
Drive-In Movie
Will Be Erected
At Sandy Beach
Wilkes-Barre Grocer
Purchases Property
From Margaret Pugh
Harvey's Lake will have a new
drive-in motion picture theatre that
will accommodate 500 automobiles
and 300 seated patrons according
to an onnouncement made by Sam
Slomowitz, Barney street, Wilkes-
Barre grocer, who has purchased
approximately 785 feet of Sandy
Beach from Margaret Pugh of Ed-
wardsville. e purchase price was
not disclosed. Pd
Slomo imer resident at
the La that purchase, com-
pleted arch 19, includes a part
of the beach front, a restaurant and
bath houses.
Contracts for work on the prop-
erty and theater have been let, and
it is expected the screen for the
theater will be constructed within
the next week or two.
Arrangements have been made
with Harvey’s Lake Light Company
to supply electrical current so that
the entire area and theatre can be
brilliantly lighted.
Slomowitz said he plans to im-
prove the beach front and buildings
on the grounds. The restaurant,
will be renovated and new equip-
ment installed.
He said the theater will be in
operation by May 30.
Miss Pugh purchased Sandy Beach
Amusement Park, located in Lake
Township, from Kingston National
Bank on August 18, 1936, for
$70,000.
She is a sister of Thomas Pugh,
Edwardsville merchant, who man-
aged the park for his sister.
Pugh, at one time, was part
owner of the park with William V.
Davis, brother of Mrs. Warden
Kunkle, Edwardsville.
At the time Miss Pugh purchased:
the property there were four tracts
of land, the largest being the amuse-
ment park and beach.
The sale included riparian rights
at Harvey’s Lake and West End
Creek.
Carverton Farmer Gets
Suspended Sentence
Michael Riaubia, Carverton farm-
er, charged with obstructing an of-
ficer in the execution of a process,
was given a suspended sentence of
three to six months in the county
jail when he was convicted before
Judge Frank Pinola Monday morn-
ing after he had waived a hearing.
Riaubia was convicted also of
pointing a deadly weapon when the
constable visited the Riauba home
to serve a legal process.
Defendant claimed he interfered
with the officer and displayed the
gun because his three small children
were frightened by the officer's
presence.
Mother Virginia BeBerus
Has New Song Published
“Don’t Say Goodbye, Say. So
Long!” is the title of a new song
written by Mrs. Virginia Harding
BeBerus of Trucksville and pub-
lished by the LaMarre Music Com-
pany of Canton, Ohio. Pat Finley
of Plymouth wrote the music.
It was broadcast for the first time
this week over station WBAX with
Jerry Lemo doing the vocal and Bob
Allen playing the organ accompani-
ment.
“Dusk and Perfume” is the title
of a second composition which will
be published shortly by Mrs. De-
Berus.
Named Supervisor
T. R. Jones of Shavertowsn, fore-
caster for Wyoming Valléy Chamber
of Commerce for the last year, has
been named forestry educational
supervisor of the Pennsylvania De-
partment of Forest and Waters.
Working out of the district for-
ester’s office in Scranton for the
present, Mr. Jones’ work will be
devoted chiefly to development of
a forestry course for use in 300
schools in the State. He is married
to the former Miss Irene Hicks,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ben Hicks
of Shavertown.
Businessmen To Meet
Dallas Borough Businessmen’s As-
sociation will meet Monday night
at First National Bank.
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FRIDAY, APRIL 2, 1948
Effect of DDT On
Studied In Gypsy
Harrisburg, April 1.—Although
surveys in the past four years have
shown no ill effects on wild life and
beneficial insects through spraying
DDT to wipe out the gypsy moth
caterpillar in Northeastern Penn-
sylvania, another and more exten-
sive check is now under way, ac-
cording to Miles Horst, State Sec-
retary of Agriculture.
An open air “laboratory” of 18,-
000 acres of forest, farm and ur-
ban territory has been laid out in
Luzerne and Lackawanna counties.
Surveys have been started by rep-
resentatives of the United States
Army and six Federal and State
agencies to observe conditions be-
fore airplane spraying starts shortly
after April 1 to eliminate gypsy
moth caterpillars. Spraying is to
be at the rate of one pound of DDT
per acre.
Largest Program In East
The area is but a part of the
150,000 acres or 250 square miles
to be treated between April 1 and
June 15. Federal and State De-
partments of Agriculture are co-
operating in the spraying program,
largest DDT operation in the East-
ern United States this year.
Army and State Department of
Health officials are particularly in-
terested in the ability of DDT to
control mosquitoes, black flies and
other insect pests of man and ani-
mals. The State Department of
Forests and Waters will have ob-
servers check the value of DDT in
protection offered trees in keep-
ing down leaf-feeding insects, in-
cluding the gypsy moth caterpillar.
State Game Commission observ-
ers will check for possible effects
on game and song birds and wild
life in general. State Fish Com-
mission specialists will see if DDT
affects growth of fish in the streams
of the 18,000-acre area.
eral and State Departments of Agri-
culture will observe effects, if any,
on bees and various: beneficial in-
sects.
Each agency is checking con-
Veterans Oppose
Traffic Hazards
Highway Officials Will
Be At Meeting Tuesday
Second in a series of ‘meetings
designed to safeguard pedestrians
and minimize traffic hazards in the
Back Mountain area /will be held
at Kingston Township . Veterans’
home at Trucksville, Tuesday at
8:00 P.M.
At the first meeting held on
March 2nd, Harradon Smith, county
superintendent of Pennsylvania De-
partment of Highways, gave a con-
structive talk and assisted in plan-
ning the proper method of arriving
at the desired goal.
Next Tuesday evening, Bernard
J. Harding, District Engineer for
the Department of Highways, will
speak and advise procedure for
eliminating obstructions and usur-
pation of the right-of-way which
now cause great danger to pedes-
trians, forcing them to walk on
the improved surface of the roads
with hazard to themselves and
motorists. Mr. Harding will be
accompanied by Harradon Smith
and Kenneth V. Potter, District
Maintenance Engineer, who will
discuss problems peculiar to their
positions, regarding these adverse
traffic conditions.
Recognition of these traffic haz-
ards was attested by the attendance
at the previous meeting of several
civic, church and service organiza-
tions. All organizations are cordial-
ly invited to send representatives
to this meeting, along with any
citizens who are interested in mak-
ing Back Mountain Highways safer
for all who use them. Kingston
Township Veterans’ Association is
convinced that these hazards can
be remedied. With the support of
the residents of this area a greater
measure of safety upon the high-
ways can be attained.
New Enterprise
G. Harold Wagner, Pen Lake Park,
and Harry N. Fagely of Mauch
Chunk have filed an application
with the Secretary of the Common-
wealth for registration under the
fictitious names act for The Cobbs
Sales Company of . Pennsylvania
with principal offices at 709 Brooks
Building, Wilkes-Barre.
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The Fed-|
Wildlife
Moth Area
ditions in the vast Luzerne-Lacka-
wanna proving ground before the
spray applications start. They will
make thorough examinations at the
close of the spray program in June.
At a preliminary conference of
representatives of the various
agencies it was reported that a
test in Maryland, using two pounds
of DDT per acre for three successive
years, had no visible ill effects on
any kind of wild life, including
bees, birds, fish, game qr vertebrate
animals.
No Effect On Wild Life
Secretary Horst said that this
year’s DDT program in the gypsy
moth area will cover 150,000 acres
and include the three cities of
Scranton, Wilkes-Barre and Pitts-
ton, 23 boroughs and 11 townships.
The .entire area will receive the
DDT treatment which is expected
to bring relief from houseflies, mos-
quitoes, black flies and other
bothersome insects to approximately
half a million people. Freedom
from the pests should extend into
early summer, and the effectiveness
of the project will be observed as
an aid to the possible future use
of the war-developed insecticide in
man’s fight against harmful and
bothersome insects as a health and
economic measure.
In addition to the city of Scran-
ton, boroughs and townships in
Lackawanna county that will be
sprayed with DDT some time during
the month of May, include the fol-
lowing: Boroughs—Taylor, Moscow,
Old Forge, Elmhurst and Dunmore.
Townships — Covington, Madison,
Roaring Brook and Ransom.
Cities in Luzerne County to be
sprayed are Wilkes-Barre and Pitts-
ton. Boroughs—Duryea, Hughes-
town, Avoca, West Pittston, Exeter,
Wyoming, West Wyoming, Maltby,
Swoyerville, Forty-Fort, Kingston,
Luzerne, Pringle, Laurel Run, Du-
pont, Yatesville, Courtdale, and Laf-
lin. Townships— Jenkins, Plains,
Wilkes-Barre, Bear Creek, Kidder,
Buck and Lehigh.
Legion Elects
Grose Manager
Legionaires Will Hold
First Meeting Sunday
Kenneth Grose was elected man-
ager of Dallas Legionaires baseball!
team at a meetidg of the Athletic
Association of Daddow-ISaacs Post,
American Legion, Sunday afternoon.
Kenneth replaces his brother, Don,
who expects to leave Dallas shortly. |
Harold Brobst and Robert Price
were appointed to attend the re-
organization meeting of the Sus-
quehanna League at Lawson’s in
Larksville on Tuesday night. The
Legionaires have not definitely de-
cided to enter the League this sea-
son.
Manager Grose has announced
that there will be a reorganization
meeting of the team this coming
Sunday afternoon at 2 at the Legion
Home on Huntsville road. All of
last year’s players as well as any
new candidates are asked to attend.
All uniforms are to be returned so
that they can be repaired and clean-
ed for the coming season and mem-
bers of the basketball team are al-
so asked to return their uniforms
for the same purpose.
If the weather is favorable after
the meeting, a practice game will
be played on Dallas Township Ath-
letic Field.
Roberts and Brobst will also re-
port on the League meeting which
they attended.
All members of the Legionaires
are invited to attend the Legion
Open House which will be held
Tuesday night at the Legion Home.
Junior Woman's Club
To Model Old Hats
An old and new hat show will
be the feature of the meeting of
Dallas Junior Woman’s Club Tues-
day night, April 6 at Lundy's at 8
o'clock. Mrs. Alva Eggleston, first
vice president of.the club, is in
charge.
Models will be: Lois London, Janet
Nash, Eleanor Montross, Audrey
Rogers, Adria Jones, Betty Varker,
Roberta Yeisley, Julia Richards,
Bettyanne Clark and Alice Stevens.
SPAGHETTI SUPPER
Mt. Zion MYF will serve a spa-
ghetti and meat ball supper in the
‘Expect Sell-Out
Church Friday evening, April 2.
TOT
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Body Of Soldier,
Killed In France,
Being Returned
Funeral Services For
William Stritzinger
To Be Announced Later
The body of S/Sgt. William F.
Stritzinger, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Peter Stritzinger of Fernbrook, is
among those due to arrive in New
York City on April 2 aboard the
United States Army Transport
John L. McCarley. :
Sgt. Stritzinger was twenty-one
when he was killed in action at
Blosville, France on July 9, 1944
while serving with an infantry unit.
He took part in the initial in-
vasion of France and engaged i
some of the most stubborn fightifig
at the fall of Cherbourg. A numiber
of his comrades in his own Com:
pany B were killed in action or re-
ported missing at that time. Among
them two Wyoming Valley boys,
Pvt. Thomas Purvis, Lee Park, miss-
For Band Concert
More Than A Hundred
Students To Take Part
A sell-out performance is expected
tonight when Dallas Township High
School’s seventy-five piece school
band presents its annual spring con-
cert in the high school auditorium
under the direction of Alfred-Milli-
ner-Camp.
An added attraction will be the
appearance of the school chorus of
sixty members.
Proceeds will be used to purchase
new uniforms for the band.
Band members are: Trumpets—
Harry, Belles, John Roberts, Earl
Lamoreaux, William Whipp, Robert
Winters, Nancy Martin, Betsy Bun-
ny, Dana Race, Irene Shultz, Don
Evans, Jessie Carey, Anthony Yur-
chak, Dorothy Prutzman, Karl Land-
messer, Bobby Rice, Jerry Elston.
Clarinets: Joy Lamoreaux, Phyllis
Kunkle, Calvin Miers, Edward Kraft,
Barbara Brace, Peggy Martin, Lor-
raine Wasser, Jacqueline Mahoney,
Nelson . Ashburner, Mary Louise = Sa Jadeieh Nicholi,
Lipp, Marilyn Mosier, Mary Ann 5 gre ; eg.
Polachek, Lois Ward, William Hen-| Sgt. Stritzinger was born in
Kingston and came to this area
in 1927 with his parents. He at-
tended Dallas Township High School
where he was guard on the football
team and before entering service
was employed by General Cigar
Company. He had a natural bent
for mechanics and drawing and was
| taking a special course in the latter
when he enlisted in the army.
ninger, Nancy Carey.
Saxophones:
John Shields,
Updyke,
Trombones: David Parsons, Shep-
herd Moore, Donald Wiedner.
Kenneth Martin.
Drummers: Elton Brace, Harold
Swank, John Hope, Carolyn Morris,
Kenneth Sedler, Allan Watkins, Ly-
man Moore, Sonny Sutton, Lee
Lamoreaux, Robert Roote.
Virginia Brungess,
Jerry. Miers, Julia
Lawrence Shupp.
Baritone Horn:
at Camp Lee, Va., and was subse-
quently stationed at Camp Pickett,
Va., and Camp Blanding, Fla. He
was one of nine cousins overseas.
At the time of his death he was
engaged to be married to Miss Al-
bertinia Van House of Jamestown,
N..Y.
He was a member of the Salvation
Army and attended its services
regularly and also played on the
E Flat Horns: Lois Klein, Regina
Klein, Barbara Stephens, Marion
Parsons, Theresa Polachek, Mary
Kozick.
Bell Lyres: Janet Hess, Elizabeth
Calhoun.
Bass Horns: Raymond Kuhnert,
Robert Henny, Thomas Stash, Fred
Brown. ee School” soft ball
x 3 wunday ochool soft ball team.
igs: Winiired Decker.’ Paby]” Wiis hody will he brought Wy-
: ; oming Valley for burial. Exact date
Piccolo: Augustine Haraden. of funeral services will probably not
Twirlers: Wilma Hess Nancy|be known for some time.
Hessler, Mabel Miller, Patsy Van- Beside his parents he is survived
Campen, Nancy Faheringer, Naomi
Veitch, Louise Trimble, Rose Ann
Rogers, Lois Trimble, Rose Ann
Patner, Gloria Davis.
by two brothers, George of Fern-
brook; Peter Jr., of Kingston; and
a sister Mrs. Edward Bartow of
Fernbrook.
3 Managers: Leona Wassel, Bar-| -
ara Hope.
New Book Tells
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Tale Of Azylum
Gilbert Gabriel Is
U. S. ARMY TRANSPORT
ARRIVES IN NEW YORK
WITH 2,619 WAR DEAD F N
The United States Army ormer Newspaperman
Transport, the “John L. Mec- The upper Susquehanna River in
Carley,” is due at New York the days of the French Royalist
this week with the bodies of
2,619 Americans who died in
the struggle for the liberation
of Europe, the Army announced
today. Aboard the vessel are
the remains of 240, many of
them from the Wyoming Val-
ley area, being brought to the
United States under the pro-
visions of a 1946 congressional
act at the instructions of.next-
of-kin residing in Pennsylvania.
Virtually all the remains
aboard the “McCarley” which
is scheduled to arrive /from
Cherbourg, are being returned
from the “D-Day” military cem-
settlements is the scene of Gilbert
W. Gabriel’s novel “I Thee Wed”,
published today by The Macmillan
Company. :
The story concerns the log-cabin
village of Azylum at Wyalusing,
built by French and Americans as
a refuge for Marie Antoinette, and
various of the novels leading char-
acters are historic figires whose
descendants now live in. Pennsyl-
vania and who are responsible for
such place names as Dauphin, Mon-
tour, Luzerne and Fayette, or Du-
pont, Dushore, Jeannette and La-
plume.
As the author of The New York-
eteries at Saint-Laurentsur- er’s first Profile, a Hollywood scen-
Mer, Blosville and LaCambe, ario writer and former newspaper-
Normandy. man, Gilbert Gabriel makes “I Thee
Next-of-kin were notified | Wed” an accurate portrayal of a
shortly before arrival of the
vessel at New York and prior
to publication of the names of
the dead aboard the ship.
romantic period in America’s his-
tory.
The author was born in Brooklyn,
graduated from Williams College in
1912, and was later honored by his
alma mater with an M.A. He be-
gan his writing career as a cub on
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Kingston Township
Gets $144 From Fund
Kingston Township was one of
twenty-three municipalities in Lu-
zerne County to share this week in
the distribution of $20,000 made
by Luzerne County Institutional
District, from funds received by the| fiction for Vanity Fair, Colliers,
former Central Poor District for Town and Country, Harper’s Bazaar,
its office at West Union and North The New Yorker (he wrote The
Franklin Streets, Wilkes-Barre. The
amount Kingston Township received
was $144.
Sale of the building marks the
transfer of the last physical prop-
erty formerly owned by the Poor
District. The Retreat Infirmary was
sold to the Commonwealth some
time ago and the money obtained
then was likewise distributed.
few months became literary editor
and then music critic. Within half-
a-dozen years he had taken two
leaves of absence—one to study
music in Rome with Respighi, and
the other to serve in World War I as
a Second Lieutenant of Infantry.
He has written non-fiction and
New Yorker’s very first profile),
and other magazines. He covered
the theater a seasen or two for The
New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Town and
Country, The Stage, and Theatre
Arts.
He does his writing in his home
near Brewster, New York, where
he lives with his wife, Ada Gabriel,
the painter and lithographer.
He received his basic training
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the New York Sun, and within a L
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