od
We wouldn’t care ordinarily—the
Julian Calendar is okay with us. As
to Pope Gregory's revision, we'll ac-
cept it—what else can we do? We
will even sympathize with those
people who celebrated the New
Year as the first year of the sec-
ond half of the century, although
we think that we could prove them
wrong if we had enough fingers and
toes to count up to fifty, but let's
let it go at that, Whether 1950
is the last year of the first half
of the century or is the first year
of the last half of the century,
doesn’t matter except that the con-
troversy reminds us so vividly of
the year 1900. It was the first
year that we remember of the cel-
ebration of a New Year.
Al, Himself, was born July 1,
1891, according to the records of
his mother, which he accepts, so on
January 1, 1900, he waé 8% years
old. He wanted so much to see the
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new century come in that he re-
quested on his birthday in July to
be taken to Manhattan next Jan-
uary, and that was all he wanted
as a birthday present. His request
was laughed at for a month and
then forgotten until he asked for
the same thing as a Christmas pre-
sent. Then his “parents decided to
give him ‘his wish.
We lived in a little community
called Windser Terrace, east of
Prospect Park, Brooklyn. Now-a-
days it takes just twenty-eight
minutes to get from there to City
Hall, Manhattan, via subway, but
in those days it took an hour and
a half to go by trolley. Our house
was four, big, long blocks from
the trolley station. It began to
snow,
We trudged out. As soon as we
grasped pop’s hand we sensed that
he was resentful of the trip. There
was our younger brother, Jimmy,
only 7, holding pop’s other hand
and gleefully skipping along, ac-
cepting as his right that he should
be with us, even though we did
all the appealing for the trip.
As we look back now we don’t
wonder that pop didn’t feel happy
about it, after working all day, but
in those days we didn’t think of
the comfort of parents much. As
we settled in the seats of the gold
trolley we shyly looked up at pop
and smiled and he looked back and
cuddled us both to him, putting our
coat qollars up, and then we were
happy for we knew that despite the
lack of heat, pop was enjoying the
trip with us. When we reached
the Manhattan end of the Brook-
lyn Bridge we didn't go up town.
No, that was where the few people
went to celebrate the New Year in
their way. We went down town
with the crowd. We pushed, shoved
and squirmed past people who
were going the same way, down
to Broadway and Wall Street to
hear the Trinity Church chimes
“Ring out the Old, ring in the
New.” We milled around for two
hours, Jimmy, pop and we, holding
hands, laughing with the crowd,
walking two blocks up town, then
turning back past the church, and
then two blocks down town, al-
ways hoping we would be right in
front of the steeple when: the
chimes rang out at midnight, It
was a game. People would slow up
as they neared the church wanting
to be right on the spot at the
stroke of twelve, but the good na-
tured police kept us moving. Then
at last we heard them—we were
just a few rods away—bong—bong
—bong—twelve times, then, “Hark!
The Herald Angels Sing,” and “Hail
To the World”, and we listened and
grasped pop’s hand and squeezed
it and he returned the grasp as we
“saw’ the new century come in.
As we passed St. Paul’s ‘Church
at Fulton and Broadway on our
way home, its chimes were ringing,
at half hour past midnight and we
asked pop why? He said that the
bells would ring longer this New
1950.
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THE POST, FRIDAY, JANUARY 6,
1930 »
You Know Me - By Al Himself
Year’s morning because a century
was being born as well as the year.
We didn’t get home till two o’clock
and mom was a little scared, but
we were all happy and went to
bed.
Next day the newspapers pro-
claimed that this was not the be-
ginning of a new century, and'those
that had celebrated it as such
would have to do it all over again
on January 1, 1901. Mom and pop
tried to keep those papers from us,
but we saw them and didn’t care,
because the chimes of Trinity and
St. Paul had rung in a new century
for us, even though the editors
stated that it was a year too soon.
Our three-year elder brother re-
minded us often that on January
1, 1901 at 12:01 a.m. we were
sound asleep and had missed the
real celebration, but by that time
we were no longer interested. We
were 9% years old and in love with
our Sunday School teacher. Her
name was Miss Fulton. We were
looking forward to June when
we could get a job and make
enough money to take Miss Fulton
out west and hunt buffalo,
New Year's Eve Party
Mr. and Mrs. C. W, Woodruff of
Pioneer avenue entertained a few
friends before the New Year's party
at Irem Temple Country Club Sat-
urday evening, Present were Mr.
and Mrs. Byron Mitchell, Mr .and
Mrs, John D. Johnson, and Mr, and
Mrs. Robert VanHorn,
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The Book Worm
The Bookworm is conducted for
and in the interest of Back Moun-
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Members of the Back Mountain
Library Book Club will be inter-
ested in knowing that thirteen new
books have been placed on the
shelves for their pleasure, Volumes
bought from funds raised by the
Book Club are reserved for mem-
bers for a length of time, then put
into general distribution,
For mystery-story fans there
are two new books, “The Cather-
ine Wheel” by the ever popular
Patricia Wentworth, its plot woven
into the history of an ancient
English inn, and “Honey for the
Ghost” by Louis Golding, featuring
a witch and a ghost, both of them
most convincing.
Two books with a medical slant
are a novel, “Medical Meeting”,
written by Mildred Walker, and
the incredible story of one of his-
tory’s greatest doctors, a martyr
to science and his own convictions,
“The Cry and the Covenant”, by
Morton Thompson.
Autobiographical and of value as
historical source - material is Ele-
anor Roosevelt's “This I Remem-
ber.” Well written and of the
keenest interest to the reader,
whether for or against the Roose-
velt administration.
“Zane Grey, Man of the West”,
a biography by Jean Zarr.
A novel of the time of the Ren-
aissance, “The Divine Mistress”, by
Frank G. Slaughter.
“Gypsy Sixpence”, by Edison
Marshall, a novel of Queen Vic-
toria’s England.
“House in the Sun” by Dane
Chandos, a sequel to ‘Village in
the Sun”.
“Family Fortunes”, all about the
Beechwoods of Kentucky whose
ancestral acres have suffered from
the post-bellum chaos following
the War Between the States,
A posthumous autobiography of
Will Rogers, selected columns from
his newspaper work, covering the
period from 1922 to his death in
1935, embodying his own life story.
“Killers of the Dream’, by Lil-
lian Smith. Philosophical, dealing
with the eternal dream that has
made men human, and the forces
that tend to kill it.
For lovers of Mary Ellen Chase
and readers who appreciate excep-
tionally good writing, “The Plum
Tree.”
Bill Compton, Surprised
At Birthday Party
A surprise birthday party was
held last Thursday at his home in
Fernbrook in honor of Bill Comp-
ton. He received many lovely
cards, gifts and a large decorated
cake.
Lunch was served to, Mr. and
Mrs.- James Knecht, Mrs, Harry
Bellas, Dorothy Belles of Dallas;
Mr, and Mrs. Herbert Munson,
Barbara Lee Munson, Sugar Notch;
Mr. and Mrs. Arnet Albee of Ash-
ley; Mr. and Mrs. Howard Speay,
Howard Jr. of Plymouth; Mr. and
Mrs. Albert Cross of Beaumont;
Mr. and Mrs. George Shaver, Sr.
of Trucksville; Mr. and Mrs, Fred
Lamoreaux, Freddy Lamoreaux, Mr,
and Mrs, George Shaver, Skippy
Shaver, Mr. and Mrs. George Belles,
Mr. and Mrs, Charles Seward,
Buddy and Jimmie Seward and
Mr. and Mrs, William Compton of
Fernbrook.
BROADWAY AND
MAIN STREET
the Hope Diamond . . . .
Now, a shooter, or “real,” as the
afficionados call it, looks a lot like
an ordinary mar-
ble, but any kid
who knows a heist-
shot from a knuck-
le-down can tell
you the difference.
The shooter is
heavier, truer,
more cunningly
fashioned than the
ordinary immie,
and, even more im-
portant, there
exists between it and the thumb
and forefinger of its owner a spirit-
ual affinity which makes it more
precious to him ‘than all the other
marbles he owns. When a player
loses in a “for-keeps’’ game, he
rays off with common, earth-bound
miggels—he would no more think of
parting with his shooter than a good
family man would with his life in-
surance.
Billy Rose
* * -
NOW, IT FIGURES that by this
time you're bustin’ to know some-
thing about the owner of the Hope
Diamond shooter, and how the
fabled marble happened to wind up
at the feet of a bunch of kids on the
day of the big tournament. Well, for
you to get the complete picture, it
is necessary for me to sketch in
some of the background of the
shooter—a story which, I might
add, in many respects, parallels
the history of its super-jinxed
namesake.
As the fen-everything set recalls
it, the Hope Diamond was first
brought to the Bronx by a player
who originally hailed from Chepa-
chet, Rhode Island. After a series
of backyard triumphs, he won the
right to participate in a semi-final,
but the morning of the contest one
of the ball-bearings in his skates
got stuck.and, in the header which
followed, his shooting finger was so
badly bruised that he had to with-
draw.
Then, for a while, the malevo-
lent marble was owned by Irv
Sondergaard, but shortly after be
acquired it, the boy developed a
game leg and was forever barred
by bis doctor from kneeling on
the damp earth.
Finally, Whitey Wizcoczki, re-
puted to have the most skillful
thumb north of the Harlem river,
latched on to the shooter, but two
days before the big tournament, the
jinx caught up with him and he
broke a couple of ribs falling off the
back of an ice truck.
The easiest thing, of course,
would have been to throw away the
hex-heavy shooter but, as you know,
the ways of men and urchins under
the spell of superstition are hard to
explain. Harry Winston's Hope
Diamond, too, is supposed to carry
Hope Diamond—
But a Marble Carrying a Hex
By BILLY ROSE
The members of the gang squatted in a small circle on a patch
of green a block away from the subway station at 242nd street.
Their eyes were in fixed focus on a shiny object at their feet—
Not a Jinx Gem
Let me end the suspense here and now by announcing that the gang
was made up of boys who had gotten together to decide the marble
championship of the Upper Bronx, and that the shiny object at their feet
was not the unlucky stone of great price you've been reading about for
years, but a legendary agate known to small fry from the Triborough
Bridge to Spuyten Duyvil as the Hope Diamond shooter.
a curse with it, but as you may have
noticed, Harry hasn't thrown it
away either.
LJ * *
AND SO, five minutes before the
contest, Charlie Hersch, Whitey’s
closest friend, dropped’ the Hope
Diamond shooter in front of the
contestants with the dire words,
“Wizecoczki says anybody wants it
kin have it, only he oughta make
sure his family kin afford the doc-
tor bills.”
Eleven of the players regarded
it with awe and distrust, but the
twelfth—a dark horse from the
swanky Riverdale section—was not
impressed. He picked it up, tried
a test shot, and said, “If nobody
wants the Diamond, I'll use it.”
“Ya be lucky if ya don’t bust
a leg,” said Hymie Michernick.
Well, for most of the contest
it looked as if the rich kid was a
cinch to win. Not only did the
Diamond connect with everything
it went after, but it seemed to
bex the other shooters that at-
tempted to hit it. Inspired and
made confident by its perform-
ance, the kid from Riverdale
sighted long and carefully, con-
sidered the topography of the
ground and, when the situation
called for extreme measures, even
shot from the stomach position.
However, as the match entered
the tenth and final round, a station
wagon pulled up and a hefty Swede
of a nursemaid got out.
“Ja-ackie,”” she shouted. ‘Din-
ner’s almost ready and look at your
clothes. You're a sight!”
“Wait a minute,” said the kid,
squinting at a marble four {feet
away.
“Albert!” yelled the nursemaid.
A chauffeur with big shoulders
got out and walked toward the cir-
¢! Jackie dropped the Hope Dia-
mond in disgust, said “Aw, nuts!”
and climbed into the station wagon.
And, as it drove away, the blood-
shot eye of the blue shooter seemed
to wink at the other players.
Hymie Michernick picked it up.
“This is the last time it’s going to
put the squitch on anybody,” he
said, and threw it as far as he
could. i.
Now, if the Hope Diamond had
been an ordinary shooter, the story
would end here. But, as I have gone
to some pains to make clear, it was
not. Propelled by the Michernick
muscles, the little ball of fire sailed
through the air for 50 feet, bounced
off a tin can onto the sidewalk, and
was picked up an hour later by an
intern on his way to the hospital.
“I know someone who'll get a
real kick out of tHis,”” he said, hand-
ing the Hope Diamond shooter to
one of the nurses. “Will you give
this marble to the patient in room
218. Whitey Wizcoczki—the little
boy who broke his ribs.”
smart sayings of ¢
Here are a f
and republished in
itan magazine,
“A man, gett
er editors,
telescope, isn’t it?’ ”
made good.”
atomic bombs.
the earth moist.”
“Having a part
had invited them.” ah
And here are sq
“Financing has
Do you ralize that
Son the trouble of
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another six months
“With “their sty
the world.” .
“A mixture of ¢
ways to reduce skid
consideration for the
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“More politicians
start imitating his actions.”
~~ B arnyard Notes
I had just settled down to write a column about the cricket
that has settled in the Dallas Post furnace room when my mother-in-
law remarked: “Don’t you ever write anything except about the
‘bees, bugs and butterflies?’ It all sounds alike.”
was the reply, except when I write about.
“Well, hardly ever,’
limburg cheese—fnd you don’t like that.”
So for a cha
gems culled from other small sod journals |
AIN STREET, a monthly page in the Cosmos! ’
“One of the reasons we have divorce courts is because manyj
husbands who promised they would die for their wives haven
“Six feet of n¥vist earth is said to be effective protection
So all you have to do to be safe after dea {
at’s movie talk for ‘You think he’s good for
“The Detroit Times,” Detroit, Mich.
e we decided to fill this week’s coltinn with the
g his first peek through the Palomar tolesins
exlaimed, “God!” A professor turned to him and said, ‘Pretty sod
“Republican”, Fairfield, Califor sia hs
“The older the man the more slowly he reads a contract.”
“Herald”, Plentywood, Montana
“There is much to be said for a college education. For instance,
it keeps the boss’ son from the business for four more years.” :
“Herald”, Fort Morgan, Colorado J
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“Journal”, Platteville, Wisconsin
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“Record”, Allenburg.
“One doesn’t have to have a great deal to be hbpy, just some- :
one to love, some work to do, and something to hope for.” 3 i
“Mercury-Chronicle’)#/ Manhattan, Kansas
”
os
so you can snub c értain folks by not inviting
them is okay, if yofi're entirely sure Atney would have come if you
“Tribune”, Fountain Inn, S.C.
taken from big city papers:
re become scientific down through the ages.
money order would have saved the Prodigal ;
ming home ?”
¢ Journal-American,” New York, New York
>
and our capital, Paris is the style capital of
e Philadelphia Inquirer”, Philadelphia, Pénna.
mon slag and rubber is being tried on high-
g accidents. A mixture of prudent speed and
ther fellow will do the same thing.”
| “Cleveland Plain Dealer”, Cleveland, Ohio
ught to stop quoting Lincoln’s speeches and
“Chicago Daily News”, Chicago, Ill.
Life and Teachings of Jsus. The
general theme, which is §aken from
Robert Browning's poe “Saul”,
will be, “See the Chriflt Stand.”
This Sunday’s theme will fe, “Find-
ing a Name for the Bab of Beth-
lehem.” {
Those uniting with the church
by transfer will be received into
membérship in this service.
Methodist Youth Fellowship will
hold a combined worship service
at the Youth Room on Sunday eve-
ning at 6:30. Attendancd at these
meetings is growing anh a fine
period of fellowship and} study is
being promoted by the MiYF Cab-
inet. All young people, 11-23, are
invited. Final plans for preparing
the script for participation in the
Youth Forum over radio station
WBRE will be made. Elizabeth
McQuilkin, Doris Hazeltine, David
Kunkle, Robert Stair, and Robert
McQuilkin will appear | in the
broadcast.
The Church Board of Education
will hold its monthly meeting at
the Church on Tuesday evening at
8 \
:
The Girl Scouts meet in the
church social rooms on Wi inesday
afternoon at 4. \
The weekly cottage Prayer Meet-
ing will be held at the home of
Mrs. Ray Shiber, Center Hill road,
on Wednesday evenihg at 730) We
shall continue our study of the
Advance For Christ Booklet, “Our
Faith in the Bible”. An invitation
is extended to all.
On Thursday the Junior Choir
will hold its rehearsal at 4. The
Youth Choir will rehearse at 7
and the Senior Choir at 7:45, The
Boy Scouts meet at the Church
at. 7.
The Church Morbo: dip Tritning
Class is now being formed for all
boys and girls who wish to unite
with the church or who wish to
know more about the church. The
first session will be held on Sun-
day evening, January 22, 6:30. All
boys and girls are invited.
Sunday School classes are being
asked to make plans for the ob-
servance of Lent, which begins on
February 22. As in other years
the classes are required to secure
speakers and to conduct the Wed-
nesday evening services.
SHAVERTOWN
METHODIST CHURCH
Comunion will be administered
at the Sunday morning 11 a.m.
service,
Monday evening—Official Board
meets at 8 p.m,
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363-R-4
Alfred D.
“As near as your telephone”
ANSILANCE SERVICE
Bronson
FUNERAL DIRECTOR
SWEET VALLEY, PA.
IT will PAY
o be THRIFTY in 1950.
Follow Tioga’s Time-Tested Feeding Programs
BUY TIOGA FEED.
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