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"The Totem Pole”
Harrisburg, September 30—We never saw a red-headed Indian
before—that is not until the other day when we ran into the good
skipper of the Pennsylvania Navy, one Governor James H. Duff.
We asked Grampaw Pettibone if he had ever seen such an Indian.
He scratched his head, thought intently for a few moments and re-
plied.
“No, son—can’t say that I have.
There was one down in Chester
County—but no he was a bald-
headed Indian. Harrumpf. What
are you trying: to do—kid me,
Bub?”
We assured him we were not
and then showed him a copy of
the column ‘Talks With The Edi-
tor”, appearing in the weekly
Leader-Vindicator, of New Bethle-
hem, written by Editor B. E. Phil-
lips, wherein Brother Phillips in a
most interesting fashion related
how Governor Duff became an
Indian.
It seems that during the recent
POW-pOW
Northwest Sportsmen gave a testi-
monial dinner in honor of Fish]
Commissioner Charles French, a,
passel (20) of Indians from the’
Seneca Tribe of Northern Penn-
sylvania were on hand.
"These Indians went through quite
a song and dance, according to!
Editor Phillips who witnessed the
affair, and in the middle of all the
commotion a young brave rushed
into the room to inform those pres-
ent that he had found two white!
men. These white men, according
to Indian tradition and custom
must needs be brought before In-
dian gentry and “put through their
paces to determine whether they
were worthy to become adopted!
Indians.”
Whisked into the Indian council
were none other than French and,
Governor Duff, who after being put.
through their paces were adopted
into the tribe. Hence we now have
a red-headed Indian as Governor of
the Commonwealth of Pennsyl-
vania.
The Leader-Vindicator’s Phillips
hit the proverbial nail on its well-
worn head when he commented on
the affair:
“I was a little disappointed in
the behavior of the audience while
these two white men were being
adopted into the Indian tribe.
There was much laughter, not
raucous nor ribald in intent or
effect. But really I thought of ‘it
as a most solemn occasion.
“All that these Indians have is
their past, and the present for
them i is, to live the past over and
over again, i To them the past is
in New Castle where
sacred. And so I thought the au-
dience of nearly a thousand white
people should have been quiet and
thoughtful as these earnest red
people, performed their dances and
ceremonies with a fidelity and in-
tentness that would shame the
most of us for the easy going ways
we have with things sacred and
holy.”
| Possibly one of the greatest
tributes to these and other Indians
who once ruled our land is the fact
| that both Commissioner French and
Governor Duff—forgetting politics
and other serious business at hand
—took the whole affair with deadly
seriousness.
The Governor is proud of the
honor bestowed upon him by these
! humble Indians. Even his oppon-
{ ents agree for the most part that
he has the courage and the stamia
of many an old Indian chieftain
, or brave—which gives him the will
| to do what he thinks is right re-
| gardless of political stress. He is
one of the few such Governors
Pennsylvania has had—and it may
bring the wrath of political destruc-
tion down on this red-headed
! adopted Indian.
Mrs. Harold Payne Is
| Hostess To S. S. Class
Mrs. Harold Payne entertained
members of the Durbin Sunday
School Class of Dallas Methodist
Church at her home at Harvey's
Lake Friday evening. Plans were
made for the bazaar to be held in
the Church Social Rooms November
12. Next month's meeting will be
at the home of Mrs. John Roberts.
Present were: Miss Josephine
Stem, Mrs. Thomas Cease, Mrs. Jack
Barnes, Mrs. Philip Cheney, Mrs.
Daniel R. Richards, Mrs. C. S. Wile-
man, Mrs. R. E. VanHorn, Miss Mil-
dred Devens, Mrs. Joseph Schurz,
Mrs. Lettie Culver, Mrs. J. G. Maza,
Mrs. Richard Sowden, Mrs. David
Jenkins, Mrs. John Yaple, Mrs. Del-
la Thompson, Mrs. Rose Lewin, Mrs.
L. L. Richardson, Mrs. Alton Sprout,
Mrs. Norti Berti, Mrs. R. E. Kuhnert,
Mrs. R. M. Bodycomb, Mrs. Harry
Snyder, Mrs. James Huston, Mrs.
Willard Hoover, Mrs. Howard Bailey,
Mrs. Milford Shaver and the hostess.
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Mrs. Edward Elston of Lehman
entertained members of her card
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Lewis, Mrs, Clyde Cooper, Mrs. Al-
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Thomas Swire, Guest
At Birthday Party
Thomas Swire was guest of honor
at a party given by his sisters, Mrs:
M. A. Scott, Mrs. Harry Becker, and
Mrs. Oscar Culp at the Scott home
September 25 to celebrate his birth-
day anniversary. Present were: Mr.
and Mrs. Henry Swire, Mr. and Mrs.
Thomas Swire, Mrs. Edith Steltz,
Mr. and Mrs. George Swire, Mr.
and Mrs. Herbert Boston, Mr. and
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SAFETY VALVE
WANTS LOCAL TEACHERS
Editor The Post:
Have we no teachers in the Back
Mountain Region competent to
teach first grade? I am impressed
with the fact that we are able to
find them in Lee Park, Plains and
Wilkes-Barre, but I also know that
there are competent women in our
midst who can teach first grade, and
who take an interest in our own
community by serving on commit-
tees, taking active part in our wo-
men’s clubs, library, church and
other community endeavors.
We go outside to hire teachers
when we have competent teachers
here who will remain on the job be-
cause their homes are here.
Many of those from outside who
teach in our schools are interested
only in a job. They take no part
in our community life and they
never will. They will leave us just
as soon as they get a better job
elsewhere,
I'm all for hiring local people as
teachers when we have competent
ones in our midst. It seems to me
that people who have lived here
most of their lives deserve that
break.
Respectfully—A. P.
UNSELFISH CITIZEN
Editor The Post:
Regarding recent article on Joe
MacVeigh. May I compliment you
on the subject. Joe has repeatedly
aided the U. S. Navy and as Ad-
miral J. L. Kauffman’s personal rep-
resentative I should like you and
others to know that the work of
men like MacVeigh who accept
jobs without salary such as Draft
Board assignments, Community
Chest. drives and scores of other
community activities does not go
unnoticed.
Lt. John F. Kenny UNR.
Mrs. Leon M. Fredd
Entertains Club
Mrs. L. M. Fredd of Shrineview
entertained members of the Har-
mony Club of Demunds at their re-
cent meeting. Present were: Mrs.
Weldon Carle, Mrs. Ira Frantz, Miss
Margaret Malarky, Mrs. Dorothy
Lavin, Mrs. Carl Smith, Mrs. J. J.
Voitek, Mrs. John Perry, Mrs. Will-
iam Rozelle, Mrs. Henry Phillips,
Mrs. Byron Kester, Mrs. Harry A.
Sweppenheiser, Sr., Harry Sweppen-
heiser, Jr., and the hostess.
Next Meeting will be held Octo-
ber 14 with Mrs. Willard Race and
Mrs. Russell Race as hostesses.
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a) Barnyard Notes §
* 0, it sets my heart a clickin’
like the tickin’ of a clock,
When the frost is on the pumpkin
and the fodder’s in the shock”
—James Whitcomb Riley.
Sunflowers furnish their own reward, beside providing a shield
for the weekend gardener. Saturday morning as we walked from
the house to the shop, a cheerful chirping greeted us from the high
stalks along the edge of the garden. A flock of goldfinches had
settled there and were busily feasting on the sunflower heads that
Myra had planted. From now until snow covers every available
seed, the sunflowers will be the picnic table for flocks of migrat-
ing songsters. If you are interested in attracting a variety of birds,
plant sunflowers next season.
The fifteen pullets we bought a week ago from Jack Richardson
have also learned to fly over the chicken coop fence to feast on the
ripening sunflowers that surround ‘the chicken yard; partly, we
suppose, because the old hens won't yet allow them near the grain
feeders. Evenings neighbor Scureman and Sandy help us to find
the stragglers in the blackberry thicket and put them back safely
on the roost. One of these evenings we’ll have to clip their wings.
Brisk night air reminds us that we’ll have to order some birch
logs from Norti Berti. They'll burn brightly in the fireplace and
provide wood ashes for next season’s rose bed. :
All the begonias have been carried into the hot house to save
their remaining brilliant blossoms for a few short weeks beyond the
frost date. They will bloom no longer than that no matter what
we do. Then we'll withhold water, turn the pots on their sides,
let the stems wither and die, and save the bulbs for planting next
January and February. Nothing can beat tuberous rooted begonias
for variety and color of bloom; but they are fragile and break easily
if set out in a spot unprotected from sweeping winds. If you order
them, be sure to insist on bulbs one and one-half inch in diameter
—and don’t buy cheap ones. They aren’t worth planting.
Wednesday, Mrs. Clifford Fink sent us a beautiful bouquet of sweet
peas from her garden. If there are other sweet pea growers who
can beat that, we'd like to hear about it. Ours died down in August.
Saturday, Sunday and Monday were beautiful fall days. Just the
proper amount of sunshine and tang in the air, with the maples
turning crimson along Huntsville dam below Fred Brokenshire’s
farm. If we could only grow old as gracefully as, the seasons, old
age would be the most beautiful period of life.
“Why is it” Samuel Taylor Coleridge once asked ‘that so many
persist in thinking that autumn is a sad season? Nature has merely
fallen asleep, and her dreams muts be beautiful, if we are to judge
by her countenance.”
John Reedy’s pruning system and our modern spraying schedule
has produced a bumper crop of grapes on our vines. John did a
dandy pruning job last February, but we couldn’t find time to apply
a single spray all season. Year before last we sprayed diligently
and regularly. Result—black spot spared us only a third of a crop.
Last year we followed the same schedule. Result—we had a bumper
crop on the vines, but the heavy frost ruined the harvest. There
wasn’t a single grape fit to eat. This year without benefit of any
spray and left to their own resources the grapes have produced a
bountiful crop. The ways of nature are strange, indeed.
Sunday afternoon John proudly showed us his flock of fifteen
turkeys raised on a wire roost at the Wyckoff place where he spends
the season from March until mid-November. The turkeys are such
pets that we don’t see how he’ll have the heart to kill them for
Thanksgiving tables. Joe Peterson was along, and stuck his finger
through the wire. He learned something about turkeys. He'll
probably be glad to help John with the slaughter. Especially since
a few minutes later he found a i, nice turkey feathers near the
pen. A young Indian is Best in fall when he can find a few featlers
for his headdress.
Indian summer. Do you remember McCutcheon’s famous cartoon
in the Chicago Tribune? Two panels—one depicting a shock of
corn against an autumn moon with two little boys wistfully looking
at it; the other depicting what they saw in imagination—an Indiam
tepee with savages doing a war dance around it. Indian Summer
has a different meaning after you’ve passed childhood.
Nothing has made him happier or cheered Ralph Rood more since
‘he has been ill than two cards he received a day or so ago. One was
from the sophomore class of Dallas Borough High School signed by
every one of them. The other was from Barry and Faith Elaine
Edwards and THUNDER. Ralph hasn’t seen Thunder since the Sun-
day afternoon Dewey loaded him in the rear seat of his open
Hudson and with Barry following astride Flicka drove over to Mrs.
Schooley’s place to put them out to pasture for the summer. Thunder
would remember Ralph even if he has grown into a strapping colt
by now. Kids, colts and dogs have a way of remembering Ralph.
At mealtimes, Mike, his Gordon setter, refuses to go into the din-
ing room with the others until he has made three or four trips up
stairs to his master’s bed to see why he, too, doesn’t come down to
meals.
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