pia ai J h LI PAGE TWO -_— THE POST, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1950 BROADWAY AND MAIN STREET Pierre, Great Hunter, Found Semething He Could Not Kill By BILLY ROSE From the province of Manitoba in Canada comes the strange tale of Pierre Montevilain, the hunter. Your acceptance or rejec- tion of it will depend on the kind of pixies under your hat. . . . For many years, Pierre, a man with the strength of a caribou, lived In almost medieval splendor in a chateau overlooking Lake Winnepeg. Only two things interested him—hunting and drinking, and the measure of the man was that he was more concerned with the potency than the taste of his liquor, and cared little what it was he shot as long as he made the kill: When he was forty, he married Emilie d’Arbesine, a girl of good family from the Winnipegosis dis- trict, and when she presented him with a son a year later he toasted his heir in Hudson Bay rum and pre- dicted that he, too, would some day be a great hunter. His wife, how- ev», hated the continual killing, and as the child § g ew older she # was happy that he © showed no inclina- ok Billy Rose tion for the hunt. To encourage his love of wild life, she gave him a silver medallion of St. Francis of Assisi, patron saint of birds and beasts, and hung it around his neck on a thin gold chain. “I've heard it said that when people die their souls enter other living things, some- times an animal,” she told him. * - * A FEW MONTHS before the boy’s ninth birthday, his father found a new-born fawn in the forest and presented it to his son. The lad named it Francois, bottle-fed it until the shakiness went out of its legs, and trained it until it fol- lowed him around like a puppy. On bis birthday a few weeks later, Pierre gave his son another present, a specially - constructed rifle, small enough for a boy to carry but in all other respects an efficient instrument of destruc- tion. “Tomorrow,” he said, “we will go hunting.” The youngster said nothing, but later asked his mother what he should do. “You must go with your father,” said Emilie, “You told me that when people die their souls go into animals,” said the boy. “Wouldn’t it be like killing a person?’ “Your father thinks differently.” “I won’t shoot to hit anything,” said the lad. Pierre, who had been drinking on the porch, overheard the conversa- tion. Addressing himself to his son, he said, “There will be no more women’s talk. You will become a man and a hunter like your father. Tomorrow we go to the woods, but your first lesson will be tonight. Take your rifle and “shoot the fawn.” Terrified, the boy nodded and went to the barn. He prodded the fawn with a stick and tried to frighten it into the forest. but the pet, thinking it was a new game, took a few playful leaps and then frisked back for more sport. Finally, the boy placed the medal- lion of St. Francis around the fawn’s neck. It ‘needed divine pro- tection more than he. * s = HALF. AN HOUR later, Pierre back on the porch, was roused from his rum by a shot and walked out to the barn, certain that the boy, like a true Montevilain, had obeyed his order. Instead, on the earth floor he found his son’s body, blood ooz- ing through the shirt, while the fawn, the medallion dangling from its neck, stood near by. i Crazed, Pierre picked up th rifle and pumped the remaining bullets into the animal’s heart. Then he tore the talisman from the car- cass. Next day the boy was buried with the medallion of St. Francis again around his neck, and after the funeral Emilie went back to her own village. From then on, the great hunt- er became the great butcher. Day after day, he killed as if bent on exterminating every animal in the forest, and at night he drank and cursed bis wife for her ideas about souls and animals, One evening the following sum- mer he saw a giant stag at the far end of the garden. He reached for his gun and followed it down to the lake. At the water's edge the animal’ paused and Pierre lifted the gun to his shoulder, but instead of a giant stag he saw a frightened fawn. Its eyes re- minded him of two other sets of eyes, but he fired, and the animal gave a little jump and fell dead. Attracted by something on its neck, he walked over to see what it Was ‘sie ee The villagers were not surprised a few days later when they learned that Pierre Montevilain had died of a stroke. But there was much talk about the object found in the dead man’s hand—a silver medallion of St. Francis of Assisi suspended on a thin gold chain. 2 for 29¢ (15¢ EACH) New! Different! Contains NO CAKE! 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Risley, Editor, Dallas Post In principle I commend the new school plan but not in some of the details as announced. The estimated cost, $275,000, to cover additions to the Borough building appears to be excessive if due consideration be given to ex- isting facilities. The framework of the present building consists of heavy steel “H” beams, two stories high, de- signed for the building of a rec- tangular addition at each side of the gymnasium. As originally planned each side addition would provide a shower-locker room and two classrooms on the first floor and three classrooms on the sec- ond floor with corridors on both floors. For each rectangle only one side, one end, floors and roof would be required. Any rooms in addi- tion to the original plan could be added end-to-end without chang- ing the basic plan. There is at the present time enough, boiler capacity to heat the proposed building. All main steam pipes are of adequate size and equipped with plugged outlets for the additional lead and return pipes. Sufficient radiation equip- ment for six rooms, modern type and fairly new, is now in use in the wooden buildings proposed to be scrapped. i Two additional toilet rooms are already provided on the’ second floor. Drainage pipes, etc., are al- ready roughed in under existing floors. Sewage disposal plant adequate for the completed building is in use. The present stage is a luxufy. This part of the building, larger than a classroom, could readily be converted into a full-time room by additional windows, to be cover- ed by a theatre drop when a stage is required, and a collapsible parti- tion on the side opening to the gymnasium. This is not my own idea but it appears all right to me. Since the proposed plan involves only a relocation and regrouping of present pupils, present furni- ture and equipment ought to be available for much of the new space. The estimate looks like a figure for an entirely new building of comparable size which is uncalled for in the present case. Bringing construction costs down ought to decrease rentals in pro- portion. D. A. Waters Babson Discusses Business For 1951 and 1952 In my recent Forecast for 1950, I stated that 1950 will be almost as good as 1949. This means that most industries and most localities will average nearly as well as for 1949. It is very possible—however—that 1950 may be the best year for some years to come. 1950 vs. 1949 It should be remembered that January 1949 enjoyed several stim- ulants which cannot indefinitely continue. For instance, 1949 bene- fited from a marked increase in military preparedness. Also, in 1949 the first installment of Marshall Plan Aid—amounting to $5,000,000, 000—was sent abroad, much of which helped U.S. industries. 1950 will — however — benefit from the large amount of insur- ance money to be rebated to G.I men. There will also be some other windfalls; but the European aid money will be less in 1950. The farmers will have less money to spend in 1950. All told, general business for 1950 need not be much below 1949. We surely live in a great country. Normal Conditions vs. Stimulants Readers should, however, realize the great need of INCREASING stimulants in order to hold bus- iness up to ‘normal’ and prevent declines. Those who have admin- istered to the chronic sick, know that in order for the patient to avoid more pain the dose of bro- mide must be increased. Those who depend upon liquor for a “lift” know that the amount used must be increased from year to year, in order to get the same results. The above illustrations apply to U.S. business. It is not enough for the government to expend “as | much” in 1950 as in 1949 in order to hold up business. The govern- ment or private enterprise must ex- pend more in 1950 in order to pre- vent a decline. The Republicans are wise in complaining about our ever increasing expenditures and defi- cits; but in order. to keep the na- tional income up to the 1949 fig- ures, it is not enough for Uncle Sam to contribute as much as in 1950 to the general welfare. He must contribute more than in 1949 unless the. Republican businessmen have more faith in the country and they themselves finance more new industries. : Bursting the Balloon Of .course there is a limit to all things. The present policy of going THE DALLAS POST “More than a mewspaper, a community institution” ESTABLISHED. 1889 Member Pennsylvania Newspaper Publishers’ Association A non-partisan liberal progressive newspaper pub- lished every Friday morning at the Dallas Post plant Lehman Avenue, Dallas Pennsylvania. Entered as second-class matter at the post office at Dallas, Pa., under the Act of March 3, 1879. Subscrip- tion rates: $2.50 a year; $1.50 six months.. No subscriptions accepted for less than six months. 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Local display advertising rates 50¢c per column inch; specified position 60c per inch. Classitied rates Minimum charge 60c. Unless paid for at advertising rates, we can give no assurance that an- nouncements of plays, parties, rummage sales aor any affairs for raising money 8¢c per word. will appear in a specific issue. In no case will such items be taken on Thursdays. Preference will in all instances be given to editorial matter which has not previously appeared in publication. Editor and Publisher HOWARD W. RISLEY Associate Editor MYRA ZEISER RISLEY Contributing Editor MRS. T. M. B. HICKS Sports Editor ; WILLIAM HART ONLY YESTERDAY The Post of ten and twenty years ago this week. From The Post of February 21, 1930 The arrest of eight youths by Capt. John T. Ruth of Harvey's Lake this week solved a series of petty robbéries in. this section over the last several months. Ziba R. Howell, who was injured in an automobile accident several weeks ago, died on Saturday after- noon at Mary Packer Hospital, Sun- bury. Mr. Howell, who was super- vising principal of Kingston Town- ship Schools, had shown marked improvement in his condition,but took a sudden turn for the worse at the week’s end. Two planes from the airport and that of Ralph Grey landed on Har- vey’'s Lake last Sunday, taxied around and finally stopped at Lake- ton. Several persons went up, among them Ben Rood, Carl Swan- son, Loren Crispell, and Bill Lop- asky. February 16, 1940 Under sunny blue skies which were in sharp contrast to the snow laden clouds of the day before, Dallas and vicinity labored tire- lessly to dig its way out of the drif- ted 14%-inch snowfall which rode into Northeastern Pennsylvania Wednesday on the wings of a 40- mile an hour wind. In many places drifts are ten feet high. Madge Space, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Space has been elected President of Dallas Borough Alumni Association. Taxcollector Herbert Lundy of Dallas Township has warned tax- payers to meet payments on deling- uent 1938 taxes or face prosecu- tion. Harry Harter has returned from Miami, Florida. Mrs. Harter and her parents, Mr. and Mrs. S. W. Hildebrant, will remain -in the south for a while. Rev. Harry Savacool has an- nounced that Richard Crompton of West Pittston will be a featured cornet soloist on the Epworth League program Sunday night at the White Church-on-the-Hill. Poet's Corner a nN “You can’t tell me God would have Heaven So a man couldn’t mix with his friends— That we are doomed to meet disappointment When we come to the place the trail ends “That would be a low-grade sort of Heaven, And I'd never regret a damned sin If I rush up to the gates white and pearly, into debt to keep up the national (Continued on Page Seven) And they don’t let my malemute in.” — Pat O’Cotter. | The Book Worm The Bookworm is conducted for and in the interest of Back Moun- tain Memorial Library. A BOOK LIST BR a Not all of the following books are new, but they are all valuable and all well worth reading. They can all be found on the shelves of the Back Mountain Memorial Library, and they are especially recom- mended by your librarian, Miss Mir- iam Lathrop. “Women are Here to Stay” com- piled by Agnes Rogers, is a huge volume containing cartoons, pho- tographs, and illustrations. The per- iod covered is that of the past fifty years. If you can bear to look at yourself as you appeared when sunning yourself on the beach, turn the pages to a portrait of yourself arrayed in long black stockings, skirt modestly reaching a point halfway between the knee and ankle, a sailor collar trimmed with three rows of white ‘braid, the en- tire confection topped by a knotted kerchief. For students doing reference work in English, there is a volume called “To Meet Will Shakespeare”, written by Frank Ernest Hill. “Open House in New England” by Samuel Chamberlain, will ap- peal to anybody who is interested in authentic Americana. It is pro- fusely illustrated with photographs on interior chimneys and fireplaces as well ¢s with pictures of land- marks of New England. “Young People’s Book of Atomic Energy”, by Robert D. Potter, an- swers the questions of the rising generation on this fascinating sub- ject. “The Christmas Cookie Book”, by Virginia Pasley, is conversational but explicit in its directions. It is sure to be out of the library when you want to consult it next De- cember, so draw it out now and copy down the recipes you want to use. “Handicrafts of New England”, by Allen H. Eaton, has a fereword (Continued on Page Seven) Do You Want To Cut Your Federal Taxes? Something For Nothing You know that you can’t keep drawing money out of your bank account without ever putting any in. The bank doesn’t play that way. This is also true of Federalifinanc- ing. Every dollar spent must sooner or later be collected in the form of taxes. Many of these taxes are hidden, such as the $2.44 you pay on a $30 radio, or the 62 cents on the average alarm clock. These are in addition to the direct taxes of which the average citizen is pain- fully aware. Tax money is necessary to run our government. But all too much of it is wasted by inefficiency, dup- lication of effort, overlapping ‘of Federal agencies or appropriations for services to pressure groups. Heretofore, no one has known how much these government ser- vices cost us through waste and inefficiency. But some strprising facts have been revealed by the Commission on the Organization of the Executive Branch of the Gov- ernment. This twelve-man, bi- partisan Commission was created by Congress with the approval of the President. At the suggestion of Mr. Truman, former President Hoover was made its Chairman. The Army, Navy, and Air Force asked for $30 billions of appropria- tions after being told that $15 bil- lions was all the Nation could afford. The Army applied for 829,- 000 tropical uniforms at $129 apiece and homes for military personnel in Alaska at $58,000 apiece. Yet every dollar spent in such activiti ss comes out of your pocket in the form of taxes. Fifty Federal agencies jostle each other collecting statistics at an annual cost to you, the taxpayer, of $43,000,000. Many of the statis- tics are of use only to small groups, or collect dust in government files. The Corps of Army Engineers and the Bureau of Reclamation are expert at selling the “something for nothing” idea to the American public. Underestimation of costs appears to be their specialty. The original price tag put on the Colorado-Big Thomson project was $44 millions. Its final cost was $131,800,000. Such discrepancies, the Commission wryly notes, “hard- ly can be explained by increases in labor and material costs.” You may obtain information about how you can fight waste and inefficiency in our government by writing to the Citizens Committee for Reorganization of the Exeeu- tive Branch of the Government, 1421 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia 2, Penna. Also write your Con- gressman! Tell him you want laws the suggestions of the Commission! : enacted which will put into effect > Barnyard Notes \ GROSBEAKS ARRIVE Two weeks ago Sunday a lone evening grosbeak landed at Mrs. Bob Scott's feeder on Mt. Greenwood road. She and Bob were so enthusiastic that they called to give us the good news. Evening grosbeaks have not been in this area in any numbers for about three years. Edith said she believed the grosbeak was a scout and that more would follow within a few days. Somewhere she had read that grosbeaks—gregarious birds—do send out scouts to find good feed- ing grounds. Within a week her prediction was proved correct. there were forty grosbeaks at her feeder. To add weight to her belief, Clint Ide called Monday night from Huntsville to say there were eight grosbeaks at his feeder. The first one appeared there a week earlier, then returned a few days later with two others. Finally the others arrived. Clint finds they pre- fer wild bird seed, although no grosbeak was ever known to refuse sunflower seed. They are gluttons and often stay at the feeders long enough to exhaust all food and the patience of the host. Their natural habitat is the area of the cone bearing frees in northern latitudes, but of recent years they have wandered further south, and are especially common in New England. On Monday One writer believes the increase in winter bird feeding during recent years has helped to attract them further south, and may have a marked effect upon grosbeak population; for in the past many in northern latitudes died for lack of food. : The rose breasted grosbeak, the pine grosbeak, and the brilliant cardinal are close relatives of the evening grosbeak. All are dis- tinguished by the heavy beak and are pretty much of the same size. The cardinal never migrates but stays in this area the year around. He may wander a few hundred miles, but that is all. He is difficult to attract to feeders. But those who are patient may after a year or two observe a flash of red at the feeder. He has found the way and is almost certain to return. His favorite feeding times are early morning or evening. Sunday around ten o'clock one stayed at our feeder for five minutes. We heard his chirp from the kitchen and thought at first that it was a chickadees He ate sunflower seeds ravenously until Buck walked: into the breakfast room and frightened him away. We have often seen him in the yard, sitting for fifteen minutes at a time in the same position, on a lilac limb; his mate, more difficult to distinguish because of her protective coloring, watches him at a distance from the lower part of the grapevine. At other times he flits among the barberry at the edge of the lot within a few feet of Murray Scureman’s back door. Screened by the shrubbery he will feed on the ground for half hour at a time. Any one familiar with the cardinal’s ringing notes will never mistake his song. Warming up with “pretty, pretty” he lets forth shortly with his whole soul. Almost any day winter or summer he can be heard from the top of some tall tree in the vicinity of . Lehman and Norton Avenues or Huntsville Road. A dreary day with a warm rain will send him into ecstasies. There may be several pairs in the area; but we suspect only one pair brings the same thrills to Joe Norton, Mrs. Billy Williams, Emily Besecker and the Risleys. A single pair is like that. It can bring joy to an entire neighborhood. Woe, are Charlotte and Joe MacVeigh! They have fed birds winter and summer for years and have yet to see a cardinal in their vicinity. : MAGIC MUSHROOM TRAYS Those Magic Mushroom trays Myra bought from Brecks, and which we belittled, really are tops. We've been eating our words and mushrooms for two weeks, a week earlier than Breck’s enthusi- astic literature said we would. The trays were in their place in the cellar just two weeks before we harvested our first crop of one pint. Then every morning for a week we harvested a pint of the prettiest cleanest mushrooms we have ever seen. The first flush is now over but hundreds of others are poking their heads above the surface. There’s nothing to it; just order as many trays as you want at ~ $1.50 each. Tear off the wrappings and put them somewhere in the , from the bottom of the bulbs. cellar where the temperature ranges between 50 and 60 degrees. Cover the ‘trays for about three weeks with a feed sack, sprinkle it lightly "every day and you’ll have mushrooms until you're tired of them. It's also a good idea to sprinkle the cellar floor so that there will be plenty of moisture in the air. WHAT'S AN OLEANDER ? Does anybody know what to do with an oleander? Mrs. August Czulegar and Helen gave us two just before they left for California. We'd never.seen one before. These are about five feet tall and ap- pear to be potted in ashes in paint pails. Their foliage is green and fresh. Mrs. Czulegar said: “Put them in the cellar and leave them there until spring”; but she got away before we could ask what to do about water. We've certainly got a lot of things in that cellar. TUBEROUS-ROOTED BEGONIAS Don’t miss out on tuberous-rooted begonias again this year. Now's the time to order them and now’s the time to start them in flats of peatmoss. They are simple to raise if you can distinguish the top top of the peat moss, sprinkle them lightly now and then, and for- get about them until they are three to four inches high and ready to transfer to pots. If you don’t believe it, try it. APPLE SPRAY First dormant apple tree spray should be applied as soon as possible to kill eggs of aphids, cankerworms, tent caterpillars and the fruit tree leaf roller. This is the easiest time to control them. Do a thorough job covering bark and branch tips. In each 100 gallons of water use either 1 pound of Dinitro powder or one quart of liquid paste type DN plus one-gallon of dormant oil, either supe- rior miscible oil or oil emulsion. For further information ask Jim Hutchison. 4 PRUNE GRAPEVINES Don’t forget to prune grapevines. They can be pruned anytime up until they start to bleed. February is the best month. Sally Moyer “just dropped in with our Valentine. We'll wait until next week to tell you about Buck's operation. Just set them right side upon the INCOME TAXES INSURANCE PREMIUMS EDUCATIONAL TUITION - MEDICAL-DENTAL BILLS et -HOSPITAL- OPERATION CHARGES Quick * Courteous STN EUE ay ~
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