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“The Totem Pole”
HARRISBURG— Activity here in the State Capitol has slowed
down to that of a rip-roaring mountain stream that has dried up with
the coming of summer,
. Most of the big wheels who keep affairs in a fluid running condi-
tion have departed for cooelr climes with the coming of hot weather.
Vacation-time is here and the,
postman and bank president —
politicos — like the village barber,
have packed their bags and left
for a spin in other regions,
A few of the major underlings
must still tread the heavy path to
their offices here atop Capitol Hill,
but in many respects they have
time for some lollygagging on the
home front.
Pressure is off. The absence of
the Legislature lessens the need
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for a spirit and picture of beehive
activity. The bosses have dashed
off to their $15,000 summer shacks.
the matter of acquiring sufficient
funds for operation for the com-
ing months has been taken care
of. &
About all that remains to do is
spend it. Even that is a chore, in
the opinion of many top-heavy
bureau heads.
But all in all an air of peace and
calm reigns over the little village
founded some years ago by John
Harris.
The squirrels and pigeons in
Capitol Park are lazily scampering
or flying — whichever is most fitt-
ing to the species involved—with
never a care or worry in the world.
Once in a while there is an out-
cropping of activity.
For example the other day the
good Governor took pad and pen-
cil in hand and after considerable
figuring, came up with the start-
ling—and disconcerting to some—
revelation that chances are good
taxes will turn up in a better light
than originally expected, by a few
odd million,
“Could be”, grunted Grampaw
Pettibone fanning furiously in the
shade of his old sassafras bush.
“Yep, could be, but I guess the
good people will still be working
just as hard in the salt mines. If
there's ever less taxes they raise
more. When there's more taxes
they just sit and grin. Could be,
though.” :
From now on until next year
there won't be too much activity
in open political circles.
In the fall about the only offices
at stake are local seats, which the
big lads give little more than a
glance. Yet these contests should
hold just an important part in
their scene as the big battles.
Local government is not some-
thing to be left floundering by
itself. It is from these local gov-
ernments that the big trees grow.
The people who select these indi-
vidual local officials are doing just
as important a job as though they
were naming a Governor,
On the surface it may not seem
this way, but it is irfiportant to
remember that without the local
units there would be no Governor
—or much of anything else for
that matter.
Mt. Rainier National park, in the
state of Washington, was estab-
lished by act of Congress in 1899.
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YOU KNOW ME :
BY “More than a newspaper, The Book Worm
Al, Himself a community institution” The Bookworm is conducted for
B= - ESTABLISHED 1889 and in the interest of Back Moun-
Well, this week we are just like
the woman starting housecleaning.
We have so much to write about
that we don’t know where to be-
gin. Many a time we have heard
that expression from our mother
and later in life from our wife:
“Dear! I have so much work to do
that I don’t know where to begin.”
We never could understand that,
because a man when he has work
to do always knows where to be-
gin, and if he stands around dumb-
like some boss will come up toot
sweet and tell him to get started.
But now we know.
Sam Humphrey. who lives on the
Perrigo Road at the Lake, called us
one day and said he had read our
column of last week in which we
stated we were interested in getting
some history of Harvey's Lake and
the Township. He said that he had
a book that would give us some
information. So we told him we'd
be right down.
So we told our wife where we
were going and she expresed a de-
sire to go along, which was al-
right with .us, except that she in-
sisted we dress up. We were clothed
in an old pair of pants and a shirt
that was daubed with paint and we
foolishly thought we could go just
like that, but no, we had to dress
up. .
We called on Garfield Jackson
first to find out where Mr, Hum-
phrey lived and Mr. Jackson filled
us full of tales about the lake
which will be told in later columns.
Bob Jackson kindly stated that he
would take us down to the Hum-
phrey’s and our wife stayed there
while we departed. We entered the
back kitchen door and greeted Mr.
Humphrey. If there is any room
where we like to meet a person, it
is in the kitchen. It is the homiest
room in the house to us. We feel
more comfortable there than any-
where else. There was Mr. Hum-
phrey dressed in an old pair of
pants and a paint spotted shirt, He
must have thought we were a sissy.
If we had our wife there we
would have reminded her of the
time we were down at St. Peters-
burgh, Florida. But she was calmly
talking to the Jacksons in a nice
cool dress while we were sweat-
ing in Mr. Humprey’s kitchen, so
we will relieve our mind by telling
the story to you. *
We were down in Florida in May,
long after every other sensible
northerner had left for home, We
had to stay there until June 1 as
our kids were going to school, and
Decoration Day was the last day
of the term. Our wife said that she
had heard that the Christian Sci-
entist Church was the most beau-
tiful church in the city and she
would like to attend a service so
we promised to take her. The Sun-
day we went was hotter than—
—well, it was the hottest day we
ever experienced. We dressed in a
clean pair of white pants and a
sport shirt and said, “come on.”
“Oh! Al,” our wife exclaimed,
“Surely you are not going to church
without a coat.”
“Sure,” 'we answered, “Why not?
We never read anywehere in the
Bible that anyone worried about a
person’s dress.”
“Well,” she retorted, “we are not
going.”
So we put on a coat.
Just the Saturday night previous
the St. Petersburg Chamber of Com-
merce had met and decided that
all of its members would wear light
pants and sport shirts in order to
advertise to northerners the proper
dress for that city in May, so we
THIS PROPERTY HAS—
Six acres of ground and
two houses, near center
of Dallas.
Over 950 feet along street.
One house has been used
as duplex, :
six rooms and bath on the
first floor and five rooms
and bath on the second.
All sorts of improve-
ments including stone fire-
place, vapor heat and
stoker.
Other house
rooms and bath.
has six
If you can use this sort
of place, it is a good
buy at
$32,500
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A TRIBUTE TO FATHER
In the process of creation
From His own image fair,
God placed on earth a father
To rule well for Him there."
With wisdom He endowed him,
With strength and mighty heart,
Of every family circle
A vital, vibrant part.
With firm and steady manner,
He guides our ships of fate
Across life’s troubled waters,
Where dangers lurk and wait,
He lauds us for our triumphs,
He's proud when we succeed,
He's always our companion
In happiness or need.
We may search the wide world over
And yet we will not find
A friend more tried and faithful,
More generous, more kind.
There is something in his handclasp
That warms and sets aglow
The spark of great achievement,
Because he loves us so.
—by Mrs. Frederick W. Anderson
Mrs. Thomas Landon Is
Hostess to Joy Class
Mrs. Thomas Landon entertained
members of the Joy Class of Kunkle
Methodist Church at her home on
Tuesday. Assisting her were Mrs.
Daniel Meeker and Mrs. Ralph El-
ston, Plans were made for a card
party to be held in Kunkle Hall
June 22 at 8 o'clock. Committee
Chairmen are Mrs. Calvert Birn-
stock, refreshments; Mrs. Fred Dod-
son, prizes; Mrs. Clyde Hoyt, tick-
ets; Mrs. Russell Transue, publicity.
Present at the meeting were Mrs.
Clyde Hoyt, Mrs. Fred Dodson, Mrs.
Calvert Birnstock, Mrs. Gomer El-
ston, Mrs, David Jones, Mrs. Allen
Brace, Mrs. Raymond Elston, Mrs.
Edwin Shoemaker, Mrs. Carl Lam-
oreaux, Mrs, Dan Meeker, Mrs.
William Eckert, Mrs. Paul Hilbert
Mrs. Wilson Maury, - Mrs. Thomas
Landon, and Mrs. Russel Transue.
were the only guy in the entire
congregation that had on a coat.
So, all next week when we come
home from work, we are going to
put on an old pair of pants and a
nice clean paint-spotted shirt and
sit in our kitchen and pour over the
history book loaned wus by ‘Mr.
Humphrey and try to get some-
thing out of it so we may tell you
about the first settlers here, the
first businesses and churches, and
if you wish to visit us that is en-
tirely O.K. Our wife, despite her
bossing around, always has an ice
box full of cold cuts, and cheese,
and kosher pickles, and you are
very welcome, but—and this is a
great big BUT—don’t telephone
that you are coming—just drop in
unannounced, as we don’t want to
be compelled to “dress up.”
—A.GXK.
tain Memorial Library.
By Mrs. T. M. B. Hicks
With all the new books con-
stantly flooding the market, there
is an understandable tendency to
side-track the well worn and dearly
loved volumes of an earlier period.
There are two books by Bess Street-
er Aldrich, both of them on the
shelves of the Back Mountain Mem-
orial Library, which in my opinion
should be required reading for all
mothers, old and young, for brides
to be, and for grandmothers, Their
titles are, “A Lantern in Her Hand”
and “The Cutters.” The sequel to
“A Lantern in Her Hand”, “A
White Bird flying,’ ’is also valuable
but like many sequels does not
compare with the original volume.
Probably Bess Streeter Aldrich
will never write the Great Ameri-
can Novel, Her style is forthright
and sincere, but she makes no pre-
tensions to ‘‘important” writing.
Her books are not fine writing.
They are human. Her characters
have three dimensions. They live
and breathe and rejoice and suffer,
they run the gamut of life as we
all know it. Mrs. Aldrich does not
deal in psychological analysis, a
trend in writing which has been
somewhat overdone of late and is
beginning to look a little shop-
worn, She tells the tale as she sees
it.
Abby, the mother in “A Lantern
in Her Hand”, lives a long life,
commonplace in character, rich in
experience. The book i$ a period
piece of the settling of the Great
Plains States, the final yielding of
the prairie sod to the plough, Abby,
with talents which she can never
develop herself, passes on to her
children the precious heritage. Born
with a song in her heart and a keen
perception of beauty, she. lives to
see one of her daughters paint the
sunset prairie landscape that she
has always yearned to paint, an-
other daughter thrill vast audiences
with her golden voice.
It is Mrs. Aldrich’s unique gift
in the telling of the tale that makes
the reader realize that Abby's life
was not wasted in the domestic
round, that her talents were passed
on to her children, and that it
was the lantern of inspiration
‘which’ Abbie always kept trimmed
and burning in her heart that
lighted the path before their feet.
The second book, “The Cutters”,
takes an everyday family in the
midwest through some of its ups
and downs. There is a hilarious
chapter in which the family contri-
butes to the White Elephant Sale.
There is the delightful account of
the Modern Woman's coming to
town and condescending to in-
struct the women in the latest
methods of bringing up their chil-
dren. There is the chapter where
all the children except the baby
leave home en masse, and Nell
Cutter’s - subsequent . struggles in
trying to cut down the waffle reci-
pe from a six-egg batter to a one-
egg mixture, enough to fill two
people, not very hungry ones, in-
stead of a multitude.
“A Lantern in Her Hand” es-
tablished a trend toward whole-
some writing at a time when it
was salaciousness that promoted a
book to the top of the best-seller
list. Mrs. Aldrich’s books are well
worth reading and rereading. They
have a sense of proportion, a rec-
ognition of the importance of every
small and inconsidered thing. They
leave a reader with th@ feeling that
home is the most important place
in the world, and that home-mak-
ing is the most rewarding career.
Bible School Enrollment
Rev. Howard Harrison has re-
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rolled in the Shavertown Methodist
Bible School and eighteen teachers
and helpers.
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oC Barnyard Notes § :
Unable to make headway in our effort to abate the noise from
whistle happy Deisel engines, we, nonetheless, did our small share
this week to reduce some of the traffic noises that disturb those
taking siestas.
We collared young Davy Estes long enough to oil three
wheels on his screeching velocipede! Lehman Avenue has now
settled back into its old sleepy ways except when some ass tears
down the street at fifty-five to sixty miles an hour in an automo-
bile.
There're two men and one woman in this town who are
courting tragedy. Their feet are heavy on the accelerator on streets
where little children play. One of them has had a close call but
hasn't learned his lesson. The other two are overdue. We've
written their names on a card and put it in a safe deposit box at the
bank. The day anyone of them has his appointment with tragedy,
we're going to take it out and give it to Russell Honeywell. Acci-
dents don’t just happen. 3
Mrs. T. M. B. Hicks brought in a basket of strawberries Wed-
nesday afternoon. We never saw larger ones. She tells us she waters
her fifty plants every day, has forgotten the name of the variety;
but is going to plant hundreds more of them this fall. Quite a
woman this Mrs. T. M. B. ,
A friend of ours has to wear a supporting brace. A few days
ago he went to Wilkes-Barre to be fitted with a new one. In the
course of the fitting he lost his wrist watch—or thought he did. No
amount of searching under counters or on tailor’s tables revealed
the missing time piece. Then he thought he might have left it at
home. A thorough search of the house produced no results. That
night when he undressed for bed he found the watch securely
strapped inside the old brace which he was wearing.
Our attention was attracted, as we were having lunch on Fri-
day to a flutter of song sparrows about one of our bird houses
fastened to a hollow limb outside the breakfast room window.
We thought there were young in the house and the old birds
wanted them to come out and try their wings. There was such a
hubbub, the birds darting from limb to the bird house, that
we got the field glasses to see what was happening.
We could see no young birds poised at the entrance to the
bird house. A tuft of feathers and nest materials blocked the hole,
Then two song sparrows flew to their station on an over-
hanging limb and remained fixed in their wrapt attention to the
bird house. Other song sparrows gathered on other limbs until
there must have been a dozen watching the nest. That excited our
curiosity. Every now and then a pair of the birds would dart over
to the house entrance as if to coax the young out. We couldn’t
understand why all the song sparrows in the neighborhood should
be interested in'the problems of a pair of parent birds with their
young.
We went about our meal and twenty minutes later decided
to make a more thorough investigation of the confusion outside
the window. Seemed to us that the old birds were foolish to
coax their young out if the fledglings didn’t want to fly. After all
we have cats looking for just such tender meat.
We took up the glasses again. There was a disturbance at
the hole in the bird house. Birds darted at it from all directions.
Then we saw the reason. A grey squirrel poked his nose and tiny
ears out, and every time he did it, the birds darted in and pecked
his snout with their bills.
After several more minutes of this he finally got the courage
to grab an overhanging branch in his paws and scamper over the
tops of the trees while birds darted at him from all sides until he
disappeared in a hollow limb half way across the orchard.
We were aware that red squirrels are nest robbers; but we
never thought it of grey squirrels until we saw the battle with our
own eyes—and the help of field glasses on Friday.
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WYOMING SEMINARY SUMMER SCHOOL
BEGINS JUNE 20, 1949
COURSES ARE OFFERED FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE
FOLLOWING GROUPS:
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1. Those who wish to avoid the detrimental influences
of the idleness of summer vacation.
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Students who wish to make up one or more subjects
in which they have failed,
3. Students in need of additional credits to maintain
class standing.
4. Students who wish to obtain a working knowledge
of bookkeeping and shorthand and typewriting or
who wish to continue studies in these subjects.
Instruction given by the regular
Wyoming Seminary Faculty
Grades from 8th to 12th will be admitted
Instruction in Piano, Organ, and Voice will be offered
LENGTH OF TERM JUNE 20th to AUGUST 5th
SEND FOR CIRCULAR OF THE SUMMER SCHOOL
Appress, WILBUR H. FLECK, President.