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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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SCHOOL ESTIMATE TO HIGH
February 13, 1950
Mr. H. W. 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
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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
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“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.
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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
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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
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