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The Totem Pole THREE ACRES ‘ The Book Worm Barnyard Notes
And Six Dependents More than a mewspaper, ' ; 4
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Harrisburg—The Governor's tax program has run into difficulty, By Phyllis Smith 2 y The Botkyoe i stndseiot for Sls : :
‘but in the end it will go through—kit and kaboodle. : 1 ESTABLISHED 1889 and in the interest of Bac oun- Stopped in at Lehman High School last week for a few minutes
Greatest bone of contention is that part of the program calling for
an increase of one cent a gallon on the gasoline tax, and the continua-
tion of the soft drink tax.
~ Lobbyists opposing these two im-
portant measures have been sweat-
ing it out day and night with the
boys.
Little of this is apparent on the
surface, but the pressure that is
being brought to bear is amazing.
Tt is little wonder that the whole
program‘ is being held up. :
Actually the whole matter trans-
cends the pure public interest phase
and has settled down to the fam-
iliar battleground of private in-
terests. 2
These days are the hey-days of
~ the lobbyists.
Possibly one of the most ironical
aspects of the whole affair is that
opposition is building up within
Republican = circles—and not from
the Democrats.
Some of the haggling comes from
Senators who want little matters
attended to in their respective
counties, and who will not commit
themselves for the measure until
these matters have been cleared
up with the Governor.
The bottling interests are at work
as they never have been before op-
posing the. soft drink levy. The
Capitol today has more of the as-
pect of a circus, what with all its
busy-bodies bustling around, than
a law-making body. :
And this brings up one of the
biggest surprises of the "current
session. Most observers and dealers
themselves have been predicting a
series of heated debates on the part
of the Democratic minority in both
houses. So far this has failed to
materialize. Tos
Most of the conflict has been
‘within party ranks. That is, Demo-
crats have been screaming at each
‘other and Republicans have been
scrapping among themselves.
“Seerhs as though the Democrats
can’t find anything important to
growl about,” commented. Gram-
paw Petibone. “After all, their
program was very similar to the
“platform of the Republicans. But
they should begin yelling any day
for an investigation of the Milk
Commission, the Public Utility Com-
mission or the Liquor Board.”
Regardless of all this, the session
is running behind schedule and in-
stead of an April adjournment,
most now are looking toward going
home sometime in May. ?
Dallas District WCTU
' The Dallas District W.' C.'T.. U.
will meet at the home of Mrs.
Clarence 'LaBar, Norton Avenue,
Dallas, on Tuesday at 2 o’clock.:
Mrs. E. R. Parish will preside.
Mrs. Jennie Brown will have charge
of the program. 5
In keeping with St. Patrick's
Day, the one wearing the most
green will be rewarded.
Serving committee will be Mrs.
D. A. Waters, Mrs. Charles James,
Mrs. O. L. Harvey. :
All friends and members are
urged to attend.
Trucksville Auxiliary
Plans St. Patrick's Tea
Trucksville = Volunteer. Fireman
Auxiliary will hold a St. Patrick's
Day tea. at .the Fire. Hall Thurs-
day, March 17 at 2 o'clock. Mrs.
Wilson Cease is general chairlady.
Mrs. Norman Ringstrom and Mrs.
Kay Silverman will have: charge of
the tables and Mrs. John Kennan
the refreshments.
A silver offering will be taken.
Every one is welcome. Br X
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SAFETY VALVE
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Si Tupper Speaks
| Dear Editor;
A bunch of us men was sitting
in ‘the sunshine out in front of the
general store here in Hokum when
this feller .come by and told us
about the political mess going on
over in the more settled parts of
Luzerne County with all them
Washington fellers trying to get
an erosion district put in.
He explained all about it and
then he said, “There’s talk that the
state game commission wants in on
it.too.”
“How is that?” asked old Gram-
paw Masters. “What does the game
commission have to. do with it?”
“Well, the politicians has got the
sportsmen all riled up by telling
them that they need soil conser-
vation to keep up the supply of
rabbits.”
“I like rabbits,” Willie Simper,
the village idiot drooled. “They're
nice and soft. I had one oncet. But
I drug it around on a string and it
gotted dirty.”
“I think its plum foolish,” Gram-
paw. Masters said, spitting a mighty
squirt : of tobacco . juice into the
snow. “I've seen them sportsmen
hunting. How do they expect to
get rabbits anyways? It ain't that
there ain’t enough rabbits It's just
‘that them hunters don’t know how
to ketch them. Why, there ain't
never been a time I went hunting
but I got my limit. But you never
see me go stramming down the
middle of a field and expect to
chase out the rabbits. You got to
stomp them out.”
“Will you give me a rabbit, Gram-
paw?” ‘Willie Simper asked. “I
want a rabbit.”
“If them sportsmen would go
out any day before sunup they'd
see aplenty of rabbits. They'd know
there wasn’t any shortage of them.
Just cause they don’t see any in
hunting season they think they
ain't any left. I think it's all a
of foolishness. Can't they
figger that rabbits hole up as soon
as the guns start booming? Why,
this is gospel, but at the end of
last hunting season I went out after
dark, and there. in the moonlight I
counted twenty-two rabbits playin
and scamperin and makin love in
my yard. Does that look as though
the State game commission needs
to have help raisin them?”
Grampaw Masters figgered it was
time to go hound his wife to make
supper so he heaved himself to his
feet and started off. “The game
commission would do a sight better
if it would shet up this rigamaroar
and educate the hunters. Or else
raise ‘some stupid rabbits.”
Sincerely yours,
Si Tupper
Dear Editor:
At a recent meeting of Wyoming
Valley Beautification Committee,
comprising representatives from
Wyoming Valley Women’s Club,
Luzerne County Agriculture Exten-
sion Association, Chamber of Com-
merce, and Junior Chamber of Com-
merce, State Roadside Planting De-
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The Honeymoon
The summer passed all too quick-
ly and Norm returned to his teach-
ing job in Pennsylvania and I re-
turned to Providence to attend
school. We saw each other at
Christmas time then not until sum-
mer. At first we were like strang-
ers but one picnic took care of that.
We had taken Norm's three kids
along as well as Bob's best friend
Erving. After we finished our lunch
Norm managed to send the gullible
two, Norma and Wade, off in search
of violets; but Bob and Erving
stayed with us. Erving finally
became alarmed at being glared at
by Norm and backed off a few feet
and pretended to look for a four
leaf clover. Bob remained by my
side so Norm gave up and reached
over and stuck two big fingers in
Bob's eyes and proceeded to kiss me
for the first time. A few seconds
later we looked up to see four pair
of eyes staring at us in utter fas-
cination. The violet pickers had
returned, Erving hadn't found any
four leaf clovers and was standing
there wearing that “wait until I go
home and tell'my Mother” expres-
sion. Bob was jumping up and
down and howling and cussing at
having his eyes pushed into his
skull. Norm blushed and asked me
how I liked being kissed. Like most
men he considered his technique
above reproach; so who was I to say
it felt like being smothered to death
by a wet towel in a Turkish bath
with all the attendants looking on.
Instead I said, “I bet you're the type
that likes to swallow goldfish too,”
and all notions of romance fled.
Not too long after that picnic
word got around that I was setting
my cap for Norm and he confided
in some close friends that I could
run faster than he could anyway.
June 1937 found us married but
not ‘without a heated argument as
to weather young Wade should
accompany us on our wedding trip
Norm couldn’t understand
why I didn’t want the child along
and Wade's persistent argument
was that he had never been on a
honeymoon before. No one seemed
to realize or care that I hadn't
either; but I succeeded in bribing
Wade by promising to take him
along on my next honeymoon.
Norm: chose the twenty-second
of June for our wedding day as the
Red Sox would be in St. Louis and
he had our itinery planned so that
we wouldn't miss any of the Red
Sox home games in Boston. I used
to feel sorry for the poor souls that
went to Niagara Falls but after
spending two weeks in Fenway Park
I though more of Niagara Falls as a
newlywed's mecca. I felt better
accquainted with Jinny Fox, Lefty
Grove and Joe Cronin at the end of
two weeks than I did with my own
husband. The following week the
the Red Sox‘ left for Detroit and
there was no alternative except to
go back to camp and face life.
We stopped in Providence to see
Mother and pick the three children
up and Norm was in for a rare
treat. There was a strange man
sitting in Mother's living room and
Norm asked me, “Who's the stran-
ger?” and when I looked I gave a
squeal of recognition and exclaimed,
“That's my Dad.” I hadn't seen
Mr. Micawber (as we fondly and
otherwise called him) for almost
two years and it was a touching
reunion. Mr. Micawber was pos-
sessed with the rare talent of going
out for a walk and not returning
for a year or two and when he did
he always had the air of a man who
had just been out to get the Sunday
papers. Mother came in and greet-
ed us and said to me, “I just loved
the postcard from Norm.” = “What
card?” I asked and she showed it
to me. It was a garrish picture of
the interior of Fenway Park and
Norm’s greeting was brief and to
the point. It read, ‘No hits, no runs,
no errors,”
Mother asked Mr. Micawber how
long he planned to be in Providence
and he said a week or ten days so
Mother dashed to the phone and
called my aunt and uncle. They
decided that we would have a big
party just to prove to some people
| that Mother had a husband and I a
| father, plus the attraction of a new
husband and son-in-law. Fifty
people came and saw and departed
shaking their heads in disbelief.
lers for conversation but with Norm,
Mr. Micawber, my Uncle Sam and
| myself to contend with they had a
| rough evening. My father a hand-
some brute, was suffering with a
toothache, so every few minutes
he would leave the receiving line
and disappear into the back entry
to be comforted by my uncle who |;
would join him there. The three
kids were there and once during the
evening Wade placed a footstool in
the center of the living room, sat
down, removed his shoes and pro-
ceeded to scratch both feet with
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WILLIAM HART
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THE LOW DOWN
FROM HICKORY GROVE
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Just have a letter from an
old Longhorn editor over near
Waco, in Texas— wants to
know if here where I hang out
he could ‘get himself attached
to come nice State, or Govt.
or City pension or payroll—
and loll in the sun or shade,
as he chooses. Says he can’t
qualify for a handout there in
his home town on account he
has not boarded the Spending
Band-Wagon and come out in
his paper for free lunches, pen-
sions, rural electrification, farm
program, etc.
So 1 wrote the gent. Told
him I am anxious and dub-
jous, too. But told him to
work fast and try not be the
one taxpayer left in his com-
munity after everybody else
was sittin’ pretty—and for him
to reciprocate if he found any
clues on how to go about it.
And also, I got another let-
ter, this one from Vashon Is-
land, Washington State. A
reader there wondered if I was
in earnest a few weeks back
about asking everybody to
write their congressman quick,
and tell him to act his age and
stop his prodigal cuttin’-up.
And the Vashon ed.—Mr. Gar-
ber—told my fair admirer
reader that uncle Josephus was
in dead earnest, he was sure
—for once anyway—and if 51
of every 100 voters would
write, that we could yet save
our hides. So Mr. Garber, I
thank you. And you, Mr. Ed-
itor, there in Texas, be sure
and keep me posted if you
catch on to any good ideas.
Yours with the low down,
JO SERRA
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Among the thirty-four men and
one woman who were enrolled for
the Dairy Herd Improvement short
course which ends Saturday at
Pennsylvania State College was
Harold Swank, Dallas R.F.D. 3.
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tain Memorial Library.
LET THERE BE MUSIC
Dorothy Maitland Sanders
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Two and one-half short (but,
busy!) years ago a mite of a brown-
eyed girl, just turning five, came
to our house to live. As two young
nieces were visiting us at the time,
the change from our childless house-
hold to one with three little girls
whooping around was drastic, to
say the least, but fun. The ensu-
ing days were full to overflowing,
with numerous domestic duties, get-
ting the little arrival outfitted and
acquainted with her new surround-
ings.
There came a day, however,
when the nieces had departed, our
new addition (exhibit A as we
were calling her) was settling hap-
pily into her new life and I could
come up for air and a good look
around. One noon, Patsy, at her
little table, and I, at the ‘big
table”, were about to have our
luncheon, when I suddenly realized
that we had not turned on the
radio in ages, not since B. P. C.
(before Patsy came). A word,
thought I, from the outside world
would be most welcome at this
point, so I pushed a button and
we continued with our meal. There |
was some news, some commer- |
cials, then an orchestra swung into
melody. Little Patsy’s head popped
up from her absorption with her
food, her big brown eyes widened
another inch, her little hands flew
out, she simply beamed with ex-
citement and delight, and thrilled
out one word, ‘‘moosic’!,
Ever since then music has al-
ways given Patsy great pleasure.
We shall do what we can to de-
velop what musical ability she
may have and enlarge and develop
her obvious enjoyment of it. There
will be piano lessons in due time.
When she is able to read child-
ren's books easily there are a num-
ber of excellent books for child-
ren pertaining to music in the
Back Mountain Memorial Library
that I want her to read. There are
books on composers, pianists, vio-
linists, and a picture book of mus-
ical instruments that is fine for
young or old to browse through in
order to familiarize himself with
the various instruments. So that the
child may learn to realize what a
treasure house a library is I have
her pick out books in the child-
ren’s section to bring home to
read.
With the advent and prevelence
of radios, I wonder if many of us
take music too much for granted,
along with reading the daily news-
paper. We just let the sounds float
into our ears and flit around our
brains and make no effort to un-
derstand and study music. The
community offers many fine op-
portunities to hear good music,
other than the numerous splendid
radio programs featuring it. There
are the concerts, arranged in two
series, the Red and Blue, of usually
four concerts each, put on by the
Community Concert Association.
One may subscribe to one, or to
both series, A number of excellent
concerts are given each year, spon-
sored by various organizations; op-
ras are presented, there are the
Concordia Society concerts and the
Welsh sings; beautiful musical pro-
grams are given in. the churches;
the Little Theatre, as one of its
presentations, occasionally offers a
just some of the fine musical fare
we enjoy in our district.
How much more we would appre-
ciate the wealth of music offered
us if we took a little time and read
up on the subject. In the Back
Mountain Memorial Library is a
fine selection of books on music, |
ready to help us acquire greater
knowledge of the fine world of
music. “Stories of the Great Oper-
as” by Ernest Newman is especially
fine for you Saturday afternoon
Metropolitan Opera broadcast list- |
eners; “Listening to the Orchestra”,
by Kitty Barne, “At Home with
Music”, by Sigmund Spaeth, are
two good ‘‘music appreciation vol-
umes. For those of you interested
in the musicians and composers
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with Prof. Lester Squier and the yearbook staff of the Senior Class.
It's always a pleasure to visit Lehman with its beautiful school
grounds, attractive building, and clean, well-lighted classrooms and
corridors.
After we had transacted our business, Prof. Squier insisted on
our having luncheon with him in his office. Within a few minutes,
two trays were brought in by his smiling and efficient secretary,
Anna Havrilla. This is what we had for lunch; a chopped egg and
lettuce sandwich, hashed brown potatoes, stewed tomatoes, a bottle
of milk and a doughnut. This same menu was being served to 450
pupils at a cost of 15¢c per serving and to faculty members for 23c
The food was well-prepared and as wholesome and savory as
we get at home.
Mrs. Frances Culp, who directs the cafeteria, and Ruth Disque,
Alberta Foss and Vineta Moyer who assist her are doing a remark-
able job. The cafeteria is, of course, spotless.
Prof. Squier handed us a slip showing us the menus for the
coming week.
Monday the cafeteria would serve chipped beef on toast, creamed
peas, apple delight and milk.
Chipped beef is costly and being one of our favorite dishes we'd
like to have been at Lehman on Monday noon.
Tuesday, mashed potatoes with ham and gravy, buttered car-
rots, choice of peanut butter sandwich or raisin bread, choice of
fruit, milk,
Wednesday, lima beans, hamburg barbecue, celery curles, gin-
gerbread and whipped cream, milk. :
Thursday, spaghetti with meat sauce, buttered rolls, vanilla
pudding, milk. Mr. Squier said the spaghetti menu was really a de-
light and everybody always looked forward to the ample servings
with anticipation.
Friday, mashed potatoes with creamed peas and carrots, cheese
sandwich, doughnuts, milk.
The cafeteria is self sufficient and actually makes a small profit
which is used to purchase new equipment and supplies. The gov-
ernment, of course, helps out by paying 9c toward each meal.
Some one might ask why all of the 500 students do not eat in
the cafeteria. About 50 are what might be called transient cafeteria
customers. Some go home for lunch while still others among the
older boys buy their lunches at Kemmerer’s luncheonette, :
The cafeteria has been in operation at Lehman since 1945. Since
the day it opened, it has been an outstanding success and has jus-
tified the additional cost to the district for the room that had to
be built to house it.
Garden Club Notes
Adelia Stevens is doing a fine job of publicity in the mimeo-
graphed bulletins of the Garden Club of Wyoming Valley. If you are
not already a member you should belong to the Garden Club. And
that reminds us, our own dues are now payable.
Adelia reminds us that the New York, Boston and .Philadel-
phia Flower Shows are scheduled for the week of March 21 to 26.
Cleveland Grant will present his new lecture and suberb col-
ored movies on the ruffed grouse, bob-white and big game at St.
Stephen’s Parish House on March 15. ey :
Garden Club meets Thursday, March 17, at 8 at Wilkes College
Science Hall, 154 South River Street. x
F. F. Rockwell, editor of “Home Garden” magazine, former
editor of New York Times Garden Section, and writer on all garden
subjects, will speak at First Presbyterian Church House
day, April 21 at 8.
on Thurs-
Mrs. Fred Howell reports seeing at her bird feeder one morning
this week: Peewee, song sparrow, tree sparrow, brown creeper,
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cardinal, blue jay and nut hatch.
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Antoinette Mason who is doing a splendid job acquainting the
youngsters in the second grade of Dallas Borough Schools with the
habits of birds reports that a song sparrow has remained at her
home all winter.
Almost daily some member of her class drops in
at the Post to report on the birds he or she has observed. Young
them.
Dougie Cooper carries a bird book in his pocket to help him identify
Similar books with color plates of all summer and winter
birds of Pennsylvania as well as game and water birds, can be ob-
tained from the State Game Commission at nominal cost.
Country Flavor
CANTANKEROUS BUT HOPEFUL
One can say pointed things about
March—and many people do. The
Awakening Moon Month has a tem-
pery, unpredictable disposition. Day
begins with blue sky, white clouds,
gentle breeze and rising tempera-
ture. A man leaves his rubbers,
umbrella and second-best hat at
home. By midforenoon white
clouds change to ominous gray and
blot out the sun; the temperature
drops to match the sharp edge of a
gusty wind; cold rain’ and sleet be-
gin to lash the sodden, cringing
countryside.
That is March. ° A man should
learn to take it more or less philoso-
phically because this is Earth's
customary groggy awakening. Soon
the never-failing equinox will come
to pass; the sun will swing north of
the celestial equator. Countrymen
have learned by experience to take
the third month as it comes. There
are seasons when honest Spring
arrives early in the month; there
are years when cold, snow and ice
linger stubbornly through raw exas-
perating days until far into April.
But no matter. The human heart
has always found its greatest nour-
ishment in hope; when the third
month arrives one knows the stir-
ring story of resurrection will soen
be written again.
Go out on the land and you can
read the signs. There are heartening
mellow days when trickling waters
course down the slopes; blue-gray
smoke curls upward from old sap
houses in sugar groves. Icicles hang
like rows of dragons’ teeth from
barneaves in the morning; gray
ice sheets skim the flooded sloughs
and creek bottoms. But on a warm
March day when Nature's mocod is
benign one can be certain. The
pussy willows’ buds are opening and
you can see the ruddy hue of the
red maples’ opening blossoms in the
swamp. Toward month's ‘end the
golden color of the forsythia by the
garden wall is noticable and, the
lilac buds by the woodshed door
have started to swell
strip of brown bare soil along the
south side of the woodlot and spots
of glistening brown earth show
through the granular snow on last
Fall's plowing. March is always a
time of change. Sometimes it is
slow and man’s patience wears thin.
But the message is plain. It isn’t
Spring yet. But the signs are ap-
pearing and they have never failed.
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