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Harrisburg, April 15—The amber fire in the red brick fireplace
simmered and crackled fitfully.
A spark of burning chestnut glowed
and shattered as it zinged against the black mesh screen before the
fireplace opening.
The dying fire crackled again.
There was a slight stir from the
easy chair on the right side of the fireplace, beside the poker, mina-
ture shovel and brush.
A pair of sheep-skin slippered
feet uncrossed slowly and then
resignedly, re-crossed. Silence for
a moment, and then:
“Harumph! Can't understand it
—seems as though everything is in
a mess. Harumph! Harumph,”
grunted Grampaw Pettibone from
the depths of his sagging-seat chair.
He paused for a. moment,
stretched his wiry legs, and scratch-
ing his head as though just coming
out of a sound slumber, turned
and said:
“Yep, things are in a fine kettle.
The Republicans have so many
presidential candidates they can’t
decide who to run — and the
Democrats can’t seem to get enough
together to make a decent con-
test.”
Well, some interesting things a-
long this line are developing in
Pennsylvania,
Republican leaders in the Key-
stone State are in somewhat of
a quandary. They're so scared of
having a repetition of the fiasco
that occurred during the 1940 con-
vention when they persisted in
sticking by Governor Arthur James
as the presidential candidate over
Wilkie, that now they are afraid
even to begin to submit them-
selves.
Two of the leading presidential
contenders they have been shying
away from but who are among
the most widely-recognized are
Harold E. Stassen, former Governor
of Minnesota, and Governor Thomas
E. Dewey, of nearby New York
State.
Many of the gents who loiter
about State GOP headquarters here
posing as Republican leaders, tacit-
ly admit between cigar-clenched
teeth that the situation is awk-
ward, what with Stassen piling up
strength in some mid-western states
where Republicans are electing con-
vention delegates on the basis of
candidates to support.
Grampaw Pettibone recalled, as
he thumped the fireplace wall with
his smouldering pipe, that during
previous visits of the venerable Mr.
organization leaders were rather
cool towards him.
“Looks as though someone will
have to build a fire under a few
of the boys unless they want to
be left on a limb,” growled Gram-
paw Pettibone as he rose from his
chair, stretching his varicose-veined
legs. :
He tickled an itching spot under
his leathery chin for a moment
and, squinting at us in the nervous
firelight, declared in his best
political voice:
“Son, the boys down by the old
village pump aren’t too impressed
with the campaigns. There's a
sample of your grass-roots and
down-to-earth viewpoint. They
point out that Dewey lost out the
last time; that General MacArthur
ought to be back home here to
conduct his campaign, and not sit-
ting under cherry trees in far-off}
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THE LOW DOWN
FROM HICKORY GROVE
For something refreshing, you
know, I kinda believe it would
be great to just squint over
the front page some morning,
and not see a story there,
where Uncle Sambo is fixing
to ‘dive into a few more 100
million buck ventures, projects,
uplifts, programs. That would
be, sure as shootin’, a novelty.
It will take a lot of different
kinds of vitamins to get us
back half-way on our feet and
in fair health, once we discover
and decide we are getting too
near the money barrel bottom.
Spending has gone chronic.
There in Congress—also at the
City Hall and Court House—
we gotta tell ’em we have a
wish for a change. We need
a “New Look” in public offi-
cials. We need folks who
savvy what 6 bits looks like
and understand how sometimes,
to get same, you may have to
perspire a bit. Tell ’em lots of
other voters are commencing
to get a little agitated too,
about this spending, and won-
dering where we will come out.
That kind of talk will make
them listen—voter talk.
It will be a great day—and
refreshing—when more gents
in public office stand up and
say, “no, boys, we can’t do
that—too expensive.” Sisters
and brothers, for a ' “New
Look,” that would be champion.’
Yours with the low down,
JO SERRA
— Ry
State Police Active
State Police have been active in
this area checking up on thoughtless
drivers. Three local drivers were
arrested for not having inspection
stickers and four for passing stop
signs. Five were arrested at the
_ Stassen to this State, Republican] intersection of Main and Huntsville
streets for passing the stop sign
and three were fined.
around a little more here in the
East.
“As far as anyone can see, they
might just as well run Pennsyl-
vania’s Ed Martin — he’s one of
our Senators, you know — and
wrap up the whole outfit in the
Keystone State. Ed declined the
endorsement of the Pennsylvania
Congressional delegation but — h-
u-m-p-f — you wait and see what
happens. If it looks like he stands
a chance at the convention, he'll
run and the Keystone delegation of
73 will be hootin’ and hollerin’ all
over the convention floor just like
they did in 1940 when James was
defeated for the nomination.”
There are 169,027 farms in Penn-
Japan; and that Taft should get: sylvania.
THE POST, FRIDAY, APRIL 16, 1948
Noccan
The more A.B.’s, the fewer babies.
Childlessness is more prevalent
among married women graduated
from college with Bachelor of Arts
degrees than among any other class
of women.
What this country needs is more
maternity even with less matricu-
lation.
Approximately seven per cent of
married women in this country re-
main childless throughout their
lives.
City life and higher education
do not appear to encourage mother-
hood.
More than half of the married
women who live in cities and have
had at least one year of college
education remain childless up to
the age of 25.
Contrast this with the fact that
three quarters of married women
who live in rural farm areas and
who have had less than five years
of grade school education have chil-
dren at the age of 25.
The margin between these two
groups narrows with increasing
years.
By the end of the reproductive
period, at ages 50 to 54, ‘eighteen
per cent of women who have had
some college training remain child-
less, as compared with twelve per
cent of women with minimum
schooling.
Pennsylvania’s birthrate is below
the nation’s average, being 190 per
10,000 of population, while the
nation’s birthrate is 196.
There are five states with a lower
birthrate than Pennsylvania's, al-
though there are only two states,
New York and California, that regis-
ter more births per year.
DO YOU KNOW?
The average medical care expend-
iture for rural families in the
United States increased sixty per
cent during the past five years,
while expenditures for beauty par-
lor, barber shop and other personal
care, increased one hundred per
cent in the same group.
TWA Hostess Commended
By Company President
A Misericordia College graduate,
who has been hostessing aboard
a Trans World Airline Constellation,
was among the airline’s crew mem-
bers recently commended by TWA’s
President, LaMotte T. Cohu, for
helping make possible the company’s
outstanding record for winter flight
completions.
She is Miss Helen Donohue, who
was graduated from Misericordia
before beginning her career with
TWA.
TWA’s Constellations had a re-
markable over-weather flying record
this past winter, completing 97 per
cent of scheduled mileage for the
period. The Constellations, which
carried 117,000 passengers along
TWA'’s transcontinental routes since
November 1, 1947, flew a total of
4,337,000 miles.
Mr. Cohu said that over-weather
characteristics of the Constellations,
together with the use of safety de-
vices in airplanes and on the
ground, contributed to the accom-
plishment. \
KILOWATT
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No chained-to-the-range days for me. I just set the automatic
It starts, regulates, turns off cooking while I'm away.
And it gives me fast broiling, simmer or fast top-of-the-stove
cooking just as I want it.
Why Don’t YOU See The New Electric Ranges At Your
Dealer's—And Ask About Our Liberal Wiring Allowance
LUZERNE COUNTY GAS & ELECTRIC CORP.
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State Wide News
Gathered through the facilities
of Pennsylvania News Service
Philadelphia— An unknown doc-
tor at the University of Pennsyl-
vania Hospital here is credited with
possibly having given the medical
profession one of its best weapons
in its fight against cancer by his
risking his life to swallow chemicals
used in the battle gainst cancer.
Media—A sentence of 22 months
in jail was suspended against Mrs.
Evelyn Page, of Chester, when the
court directed that she repay the
money she had stolen from her
nearly blind employer, Harold
Green of Swarthmore.
Hazleton— For alleged irregular
activities in the 1947 primary elec-
tion, 13 of 15 Hazleton election of-
ficials indicted by a Grand Jury,
have posted bail to await their trial
by the State Supreme Court. Bond
was set at $1,000 per defendant.
Pittsburgh—The State Supreme
Court sitting here has awarded Dr.
Frank F. D. Reckord, of this place,
$2,738 for treating a woman for 16
years without presenting her with a
bill. Upon the death of his patient
in 1943, he presented the estate
with a bill for $9,410.
Bethlehem— Investigators are
probing the death of five steel work-
ers who died at the plant of the
Bethlehem Steel Company here
when hot coke accidently engulfed
them. Officials of the steelworkers
union charged criminal negligence.
Pottsville—His scarf catching on
a sharp edge of a board as he was
going down a coal breaker near
here, Donald Faust slipped and ac-
cidentally hung himself. The boy
was reported to have spent con-
siderable time playing around the
breaker.
Beaver Falls— 22-year-old Jack
George, a blind Marine veteran,
whose hearing has been accentuated
as a result of his handicap, has
been credited with officials for prob-
ably saving the Pennsylvania Rail-
road’s speeding Admiral from pos-
ing detected a broken rail as an
earlier train clicked over the road-
bed near his home here.
Norristown— Six-year-old Judith
Minnig was a happy participant in
a neighborhood children’s show un-
| til her grass skirt caught fire as
she danced too close to flames. She
died shortly after being taken to a
hospital.
Vernon Church Sponsors
“I Remember Mama”
Mrs. Elizabeth Conrad will read,
“I Remember Mama’ at the Vernon
Union Church, Thursday night, May
27 at 8 o'clock. Men, women and
children are invited. Music will
be furnished and refreshments
served.
sible disaster when his sharp hear-| |
SAFETY VALVE
Trenton, N. J.
April 12, 1948
Howard Risley, Editor
Dallas Post,
Dallas Pa.
I am in Trenton tonight, will be
in Camden tomorrow night, Glous-
ter City the following day, and
Millville, N.J. on Thursday on work
for my company.
While I am here under the dome
of the State Capitol of New Jer-
sey my thoughts are back in King-
ston Township, and I have written,
and am enclosing some of the
things I would like to tell every
resident of Kingston Township, per-
sonally, if that were possible.
Perhaps you can suggest how it
would be possible to get this infor-
mation into the hands, and minds,
of the people of Kingston Town-
ship, and to impress upon them
the need for these improvements
in our schools.
Sincerely,
Bob Currie..
Kingston Township School
Bond Issue Question
There is much talk about im-
proved schools, and many theories
advanced as to how to attain the
desired improvement. Every com-
petent advocate of improved schools
rates child health in top place, and
considers aids to health first in
any improvement program—in this
connection a hot lunch program for
school children is a must on the
list of every local, state and Federal
agency dealing with improved
schools.
For a number of years the Fed-
eral Government has subsidized the
school lunch program, where an
approved type of program has been
instituted and where an approved
type lunch is served to the chil-
dren. Some of the schools in the
Back Mountain Area are operating
under this plan, and are receiving
considerable financial aid, in ad-
dition to large stocks of surplus
food, for operating their cafeterias.
Kingston Township has been
operating under a partial plan for
the past two years, in which our
school children get a bottle of
Grade A whole milk for 3 cents
instead of the 5 cents they pre-
viously paid. Under this plan the
parents in Kingston Township have
saved 10 cents per week for each
child drinking milk with their
lunch, and while this seems like a
trifling amount it adds up to a
total of $3.60 per school year for
each child, or could amount to
$2,520.00 per year for our school.
It actually has amounted to less
than this because many of the
children do not drink milk with
their lunch, and many of the chil-
dren go home for lunch.
The Federal Government pays the
difference between the actual cost
of the milk, 5c, and what the child
pays for it, 3c.
We have been urged, for the
health of the children, to establish
an approved type of cafeteria in
Kingston Township Schools, through
which the Government will subsi-
dize the school lunch program to
the point where a complete, nour-
ishing, hot lunch can be served
to every child in ‘our schools at
a cost that would be less than the
cost of making one meat or cheese
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Two events make Dallas a beautiful place this spring—even
with all the rain.
One is the opening of the daffodils on the sunny bank below
Mrs. Clyde Lapp’s home on Machell Avenue, and the other is the
arrival of the purple finches.
We have enjoyed the daffodils for the past ten years, ever since
Clyde put them there.
as a lovely tribute to his memory.
Annually Mrs. Lapp adds to their number
The finches have given our orchard a pink glow. They arrived
in a flock along with an assorted collection of all kinds of song,
swamp, and white-throated sparrows—not to mention a few of Eng-
lish origin for good measure.
But the finches steal the show even from the busy chickadees
and scampering nuthatches.
delight in singing.
The harder it rains the more they
The person who hasn't yet erected a bird feeder near his win-
dow fails to appreciate the cheerful spring songs he misses or the
variety of birds that visit this area.
Spring Poems
This has been no week for farming but it has been a week of
anticipation of events about to happen.
So we stole a few hours
- rambling through some of our favorite April poems.
The first one we learned to love when Prof. Trebilcox read it
over and over in English class at Wyoming Seminary. To him, and
to our Dad, we owe whatever appreciation we have of poetry. Associ-
ation with those who understand and love verse is a privilege that
pays dividends throughout a lifetime.
Here they are, two favorites.
April, ad infinitum.
You can expect them April after
THE DAFFODILS
I wander’d lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o’er vales and hills, .
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host of golden daffodils,
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the milky way,
They stretch’d in never-ending line
Along the margin of a bay;
Ten thousand saw I at a glance
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.
The waves beside them danced, but they
Outdid the sparkling waves in glee—
A poet could not but be gay
In such a jocund company!
I gazed — and gazed — but little thought i
What wealth the show to me had brought;
For oft, when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash across that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils.
William Wordsworth
HOME THOUGHTS FROM ABROAD
Oh, to be in England
Now that April's there,
And whoever wakes in England
Sees, some morning unaware,
wo
That the lowest boughs and the brushwood sheaf
Round the elm-tree bole are in tiny leaf.
While the chaffinch sings on the orchard bough
In England—now!
And after April, when May follows,
And the whitethroat builds, and all the swallows!
Hark, where my blossom’d pear-tree in the hedge
Leans to the field and scatters on the clover
Blossoms and dewdrops — at the bent spray’s edge—
That’s the wise thrush;
he sings each song twice over,
Lest you should think he never could recapture
The first fine careless rapture!
And though the fields look rough with hoary dew,
All will be gay when noontide wakes anew
The buttercups, the little children’s dower—
Far brighter than the gaudy melon-flower!
—Robert Browning
Country Flavor
WHITTLING
The countryman believes one
reason for the unrest and whirlpool-
ish currents that fritter away a
sense of serenity is the almost com-
plete disappearance of the comfort-
able, oldtime practice of whittling.
True, a few men still nurture the
art but by and large whittling has
joined the goodly company that
includes buffalo robes, bustles, high-
laced boots and iron gem pans.
Only those who remember the days
before horseless carriages, exuber-
ant radio announcers and lurking
vitamins can appreciate the extent
to which life has increased its tempo
in half a century.
There are two kinds of whittling.
On a stormy March day it’s good to
putter along in the comfortable
farm shop at purposeful whittling.
A man’s jackknife is a prized pos-
session, as important as his favorite
axe, hoe or pitchfork. A fore-
handed countryman wants to have
a supply of teeth whittled for the
handrakes and bullrakes. He likes
to whittle angled holders for apple
picking baskets, a new head for his
bean flail and oak sticks for har-
ness pegs. A man can spend peace-
ful nerve-soothing hours working
on an axe helve.
But there's another and equally
important kind of whittling. True
whittlers cherish the opportunity
to. sit and whittle just for the fun
of it. On a sunny, warm day it’s
comforting to tip back in the open
barn doorway after dinner and
whittle for whittling’s sake. Shep
lies with his nose on his forepaws.
One can hear-the cows rattling their
stanchions and the horses stamp-
ing as they chew on good timothy
and clover. The hens scratch and
sing in the hay chaff and a long
string of black smoke unravels in
the air above the farmhouse chim-
ney. It’s good to see the slender,
thin shavings curl away from the
stick and to smell the pungent
fragrance of barn, wood, and yard.
As one sits and whittles he can
study the grain of the wood; or he
can pause to look across the fields
to distant mountains. He has a
feeling of peace with the world. If
you will do some research you will
discover that whittlers are men of
sound qualities. They are philoso-
phers who have a foundation of
tolerance and understanding; they
have perspective to make meaning
of the sharp-angled currents of con-
temporary life. ~The countryman
smiles as he thinks it, but he wishes
there were a law to compel all law-
makers, statesmen and big business
men to spend an hour whittling
after each midday meal.
Quilt At St. Paul's
Members of the Ladies Auxiliary
of St. Paul's Lutheran Church
quilted at the church yesterday,
Thursday. Next Wednesday they
will quilt in the morning and hold
their meeting at 1 o’cleck. Every-
one is welcome.
W.C.T.U. Meeting
The Dallas District W.C.T.U. will
meet on Tuesday, April 20 at 2:00
P.M. at Lehman M. E. Church. Mrs.
H. R. Riley will have charge of ser-
vices. Mrs. E. R. Parrish will preside.
Members of the Lehman Group will
provide the program. ;
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