y went to school. ~ on that subject. i oc a You Lsioi Me Al Himsel Lakéton School Parent-Teachers’ ‘Association held a panel discussion last week. Teachers told parents about their jobs in the school. Having teachers in the family, we didn’t think they could say any- thing we didn’t know, but they did. Things have changed since we As a boy of eight, we wanted to follow our father’s ~ footsteps and be a printer. When we entered High School we had no thought of going to college so we took the subjects we thought necessary to make us the best printer in the world. We never reached that stage, but we would have a better chance today. Sub- jects taught in the schools now stress preparing students to go out in the world and make a living without a college education. Now, don't think we are against Academic subjects. We know that those in the higher salary brackets are college graduates, but we also know that there are many college graduates who make less than a tradesman, take teachers for in- stance. The idea is that educators have at last discovered that over 60 per cent of high school pupils either do not want to get a higher education or are not capable of absorbing a college education, so the high schools tailor themselves accordingly, and try to teach only what the pupil wants to know. - This is not easy, as many pupils don’t make up their minds as to their future, and also certain old fashioned state laws have to be obeyed. Now, we do not agree entirely with Professor Taylor's answer to a parent concerning a modern language not being taught in our school. He explained that the per- centage of graduating students who enter college is so small that teach- ing a modern language is not nec- essary. We believe that if only one student a year wished to further his education, an instruc- tor should be engaged to teach that pupil everything necesary so he would be eligible to enter col- lege. Of course Principal Taylor's problem then would be .to con- vince the majority of the tax- payers to think the way we do. ~ But'to get back to the teachers’ discussion panel. One instructor explained to us what he does with the boys in shop. How a study is made of each pupil to ascertain his future desires toward making a living. ‘When we went to school a cylinder was”an object so many inches high, such and such a diam- eter, now find out how many gal- lons of water it will hold. Now- ~ a-days the boys. really know what a cylinder is and why rings are grooved in ‘a piston. Others told us about the teaching of math, business, home economics. If any taxpayer in Lake Town- ship hasn't seen that Home Econ- omics room he is missing some- thing, and if parents whose girls take that subject haven't in- spected that room they should feel ashamed. Our school bows to none The music in- structor. told about her job with the band. Again we don't have to take our hats off to any one. You persons around sixty re- member how we had to study music in school. The teacher came once a week and fumbled in his vest for a little tuner and blew in it and out would come a sound that we knew from past experi- ences meant to be do,” and we'd go off singing do, re, mi, until even our home room teacher had to leave the room so her laughing wouldn’t be noticed. Now we have as good a band as there is in any school our size, and it is not com- pulsory to join the band. Can you imagine how many of us old- timers would have gone through those foolish do, re, mis if we hadn’t had to. Then the permanent nurse ex- plained her duties. We knew from experience with our own kids that schools long ago sent pupils home that had colds or defective eyes, but there is a follow up at the homes now to prevent epidemics. We have heard some criticism out- side the school of the cost of a permanent nurse, but if any one heard the explanation of her duties and how she attends to them, we are sure that criticism would sub- side. What interested us mostly was the commercial teacher's remarks on the magazine she is instructing her pupils to publish. Two issues have gone to press, or we should say gone to the mimeograph ma- chine. We have looked them both over from an angle in which we consider ourselves above the aver- age and we resolved that we are proud that some of our money is helping a work of this kind. . The pages are typed, the stories written and edited by the students themselves and we are sure that if any of them become printers, story writers, or editors later in life they will look back with a great deal of satisfaction on the basic training they got in school through printing this magazine. It is published every six weeks, has no name as yet, but a contest is now on to name it. Principal Taylor announced that the next panel discussion will be held soon with the faculty as the audience and the parents taking the center of the stage and doing the talking. So if any of us have any constructive criticism let's be there. We hope that every mem- ber of the Board of Education will be on hand as we'd like to ask why more of this up-to-date educa- tion can not be brought to our school. Of course without paying any- more taxes. What's that? Note Of Thanks I wish to thank all my relatives and friends for the beautiful flowers, gifts and cards which I received during my recent stay in General Hospital. They were greatly appreciated. Mrs. Gale Clark wy Hh \ (od (a 3 WY instill it deep.” GEORGE WASHINGTON SAID: “Nothing is needed but honesty, industry and frugality to make us a great and happy people.” “Economy makes happy homes and sound nations; George Washington, In a Letter to His Wife, June 18, 1775 - “As life is always uncertain, and common prudence dictates to every man the necessity of setting his temporal concerns while it is in his power, and while the mind is calm and undisturbed, I have, since 1 came to Philadelphia, got Colonel Pendleton to draft a will for me, by the direction I gave hum. Open Friday Afternoons Until 5:00 P. M. For Your Convenience “Ys KINGSTON NATIONAL BANK AT KINGSTON CORNER ‘SOUNDED 1898 Wade arrived home the Thurs- day night before Christmas. He had a ride home with ‘Paul from ' Putnam” so we didn’t have to | meet him at the train. It was good to see him again and he tried his best to hide his disappointment at not being home in Huntsville for the holidays. However he was full of plans for spending his vacation in Kingston. We broke open a bottle of rare old wine Wade brought home from his cruise last | summer and sat around the dining | room fireplace talking family talk | and speculating on how the small Smiths might turn out. If they turn out to be half as nice as Bob | or Wade I'll be satisfied but I haved my moments of doubt. Sometimes | I can visualize them in itorre | and by that I don’t mean the clean’ blue of Annapolis or the Coast Guard Academy. I was thinking in terms of black stripes and per- haps the tinkle of ball and chain if Norm moves the family to Flor- ida. What an age we are living in. Even Norm has a number now. If you aren't in the army you have a social security number. It’s all too much for my old non-math- matical bean. When Norm got out of the army and Bob was home from Annapolis in the summer our clothes line was really a sight. You haven't seen a wash unless you've seen one with endless num- bers of shirts and shorts all boldly numbered in black whipping in the | summer breeze. Then along came Wade to add his number to the array and two summers ago an idle passerby would have gotten the impression that I was awarded the laundry concession from the Luzerne County Prison. Ah, mem- ories, the very stuff that family life is made of. Friday we decended on Mother. | The family who came for dinner and stayed for the night. Norm was to arrive in Providence at six- | thirty Saturday morning and none! of us had the character to start’ out from here on Saturday morn- ing and be at the Greyhound ter- | minal that early. The only solu- tion was to get as far as Provi-! dence and then meet Norm early the next morning. Mother gave | us a good dinner and then sug- gested that we go for a drive around town and see all the Christ- mas lights and decorations. Mother belongs to the era which con- siders a car something to go for a drive in. I don’t know of any one who just goes for a drive ex- cept Mother and her contempor- aries. A car to us is a way of getting from one spot to another out of sheer necessity. That and nothing more. It was a cold icy night but we went for our drive “and after tour- ing down town Providence we de- cided to call on my brother and see his new little son. Mother thought it would be nice for our boys to see their little cousins and tree. We saw the cousins but the tree wasn’t there. Ken was to bring it home that night. About an hour later Ken arrived treeless smelling more like Four Roses than a hemlock bough. He just forgot the tree he declared. His wife thought they were the only ones who didn’t have a tree. Ken said not to get morbid about it, he’d get one tomorrow. I asked. Ken, who is a prolific reader, if he hadn't been reading all the warnings about the foolishness of office parties and he said, “Listen to the girl. So I drive a trailer truck and she thinks I go to office parties. What do you think I am a white collar worker? When Truman gets through with me in March I won’t even have a shirt.” I figured he had exhausted about (Continued on Page Three) LOOK For The Name REALTOR when buying or selling real estate. The principal interest of a realtor is to see that the transaction, large or small, is com- pleted in an intelligent, ethical manner. Your local realtor D. T. SCOTT JR. Dallas 224-R-13 D. T. SCOTT and Sons REALTORS 10 East Jackson Street Wilkes-Barre, Pa. 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. 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HICKS Sports Editor WILLIAM HART ONLY YESTERDAY From The Post of ten and twenty years ago this week. From the Issue Of February 28, 1941 Ten Years Ago In The Dallas Post Returns from a poll of 900 Lu- zerne County Farmers show that a cannery would be well received in this area and enthusiastically supported. Receipts from “Let Us Take Council”, the original play written by Fred Kiefer and presented by members of/ the Dr. Henry M. Laing Fire Company amounted to $514. National Defense shop classes held at Lehman and Dallas Town- ship schools are overcrowded. An- other’ class in woodworking at Dallas Township has been request- ed. Eddie Wallo, Huntsville boxer, returned from the British Boxing Gloves Tournament in Bingham- ton with $20 in cash, a wreath of faded roses, a pair of boxing gloves, and a new punching bag. Young People’s Bible Class, Shavertown Lutheran Church, has lost the last of its six boys to the armed services. Robert Dierolf left to join the 109th last week, follow- ing his brother William, Walter Thompson, Harold Thompson, Bry- ant Rinus, and Charles Girton. A convoy of twelve trucks and artillery pieces passed through Dallas early Wednesday morning under leadership of Captain Larry Lee, Battery B. en route from Tunkhannock to the Kingston Armory. Gerald Frantz, Huntsville, was appointed this week to the Board of Control of Fairlawn Stores. Friends of Mr. and Mrs. Ted Wilson gave them a house warming at their new home in East Dallas Saturday night. Miss Helen Elizabeth Holmes was married in a church ceremony to Earl R. Vivian, February 14. Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Cumm- ings, route 115, lost their home by fire on Lincoln's birthday. Dana Lee, aged 12, son of Cap- tain Lawrence Lee, Battery B. set up a display featuring toy soldiers and equipment in Add Woolbert’s window. Over it he placed a sign: “My daddy’s in the army now — so I'm decorating the window. How do you like my first one?” Joe Anthony’s cobbler shop on Main Street was redecorated during his recent illness by Albert An- thony, Ben Rood, and Caddy Bes- teder, who worked like beavers to prepare a surprise for their friend. Mr, and Mrs. A. A. Neely, Dallas Township, celebrated their 54th wedding anniversary on Washing- ton’s birthday. Read The Classified Column Connecticut Saga THE DALLAS POST By Phyllis Smith “More than a mewspaper, SAFETY VALVE = —88 | a community institution” || gs B SOMEWHERE IN KOREA Dear Howard: I have a few minutes so I thought I would drop you a line.’ It’s nice and warm here today, but at night it really gets cold, colder than I've ever seen it at home. My canteen freezes so I have to wait until during the day to drink water, I've never seen such a country, all mountains and rice patties on the low lands and they're frozen. You can almost ice skate on them. I can’t see why any country would fight and want this place. The houses are made of straw and mud and I think I could throw a stone through the walls. I really feel sorry for the children here. When the troops are fighting in the towns, the people leave with every- thing they can carry, but they leave the kids behind and we feed what we can. Some are running around without clothes. It's really a mess. I don’t know when this will end. It’s worse than World War IL There must be a million Chinese fighting here. When they attack they are like flies. The more you kill, the more they come. I think they must be doped because when the planes strafe and bomb, they go right through it. They climb over the bodies sometimes piled two and three feet high. I didn’t mind fighting the last war, but this really gets me, The only way you can get off the front here is get hit hard, but they won't get me if I can help it. Well it's starting to get cold, so I will close. Joe Wallo 3rd Infantry Division APO 468 Postmaster, San Francisco READS IT ALL To The Post: I just enjoy each copy of the Post. It's like a letter from home. I read every word of it, even the ads. Sorry to say many of my old friends are dropping away. En- closed is my renewal. Sincerely Mrs. Nina Davies 30 Hickory Ave. Takoma Park, 12, Md. FROM TURKEY Dear Myra and Howard: This is our fourth year in the land of the Moslems. I sometimes wonder if we will ever get home. | Life has been most interesting | and I wouldn't have missed it. Generalizing, I would say. every American has been used to so much and is so smug, they should have to spend some time in a foreign country to learn, that, whatever our faults, there is no other nation comparable. Turkey needs help! For a repub- lic only thirty years old, it’s growth is remarkable. How a man like Ataturk ever emerged to revolu- tionize it is baffling. Practically over night, he said, ‘no more fezs, the language will be changed, started communication systems, in fact, started everything and per- sonally supervised, then, died much too soon, with no one capable of carrying on. Turkey has most everything, but lack of transpor- tation and refrigeration, etc., makes products available only in localities grown. There are experts here, from the states in almost every field, so are progressing, however most men in a short time feel very much frustrated; time to a Turk is mean- ingless. The older generation like their country as it is, the younger men who have been sent by the govern- ment to our universities return, are pigeonholed at inadequate sal- aries and for the most part hope for the day when they can return to the better way they knew in the states. A pity, because they are needed here. One becomes used to the maim- ed, crippled and beggars as well as the pitiable peasant life. I roam about eski ( old ) Ankara. It is a walled city on a mountain over- looking modern Ankara. The wall is most interesting being built of columns, statuary and blocks from Greek and Roman buildings in ex- istance in Ankara at a time of emi- nent attack. Life goes on there as it did before Christ. Like people in Da- llas who have never been in a mine I find Turkish people who have never gone there and who say about things I buy, “where did you get it and what is it?” There are Kurds and Gypsies, Nomadic tribes in colorful dress — shops of all kinds of the most primitive type. Furniture is made with the earl- iest principles of the lathe. Hand- made copper utensils of all kinds — later tinned for household use — saddle shops, most anything. Actually the place is a squalid- little town, teeming with donkeys and people in native dress. The streets are narrow alley ways of cobbles. The houses are broken down affairs, some with upper stories projecting at an angle over the streets. There is an old Khan restored as a museum with Hitite and Bysantine statuary. In each archway of the front there is a huge jar which always reminds me of “Ali Baba and the Forty Thie- ves”. I can understand now how and lie down satisfied. gives me a staff to lean on. cup till it runs over. not. ades ago. fortune. ifornia oil lands. registration slip on their car. 6. Now, what I have been telling you is true. These roads that are “away ahead” good will stay with me through this life, and afterward I will move to the Big Tepee and sit down with.the Shepherd Chief forever. § Barnyard Notes INDIAN VERSION OF PSALM 23 1. The Great Father above, a Shepherd Chief is the same as, and I am His, and with Him I want not. 2. He throws out to me a rope. He draws me and draws me and draws me to where the grass is green and the waters not dangerous, and I eat and drink The name of the rope is love. 3. Some days this soul of mine is very weak and falls down, but He raises it up again and draws me into trails that are good. His name is Wonderful. 4. Sometime, it may be in a little time, it may be longer, and may be a long, long, long time, I do not know, He will draw me into a place between mountains. be afraid not, for it is in there, between those mountains, that the Shepherd Chief will meet me, and the hunger I have felt in my heart all through this life will be satisfied. Some- times this rope that is Love He makes into a whip, and He whips me and whips me and whips me, but afterwards He It is dark there, but I 5. He spreads a table before me and puts on it different kinds of food; Buffalo meat, Chinamen’s food, white man’s food, and we all sit down and eat that which satisfies us. He puts His hands on my head and all the tired is gone. He fills my I talk two ways Arranged by—Isabel Crawford. AN ACT OF KINDNESS BRINGS $100,000 Charles Babonet came to the U. S. A. from Austria, several dec- He remained a bachelor, lived frugally, and amassed a When he died on August 7, 1950, $300,000 in cash and bonds was found in his little shack on the east side of Los Angeles. Public Administrator Ben H. Brown said the estate might run to $500,000. Brown believes other income from oil has not yet been located. Babonet was believed to have invested his savings in Cal- A will, handwritten on a piece of wrapping paper, was filed by L. M. Giannini, president of the Bank of America, to dispose of Babonet’s estate. He mailed the will to Giannini, head of the world’s largest bank. $100,000 was willed to a family who had shown him a happy day at the beach and who had never seen him since. The story of his day at the beach was laboriously written: “I here- by give, devise and bequeath to a young party so kind years ago to pick me up on the highway going to the beach for, the day in their car; they had their little daughter they called Babe and her little friend all singing and so happy. ’ “This little friend she called Sue . . I will never forget that day and their happiness and kindness.” He learned the names of his friends by sneaking a look at the Mrs. Tyson was willed $60,000, Ty- son and their daughter $20,000 each. Sue was given $10,000. Believers may never be remembered in the wills of those whom they befriend, but it nevertheless pays to be happy and kind toward | all, for the Lord Jesus said: “Whosoever shall give you a cup of water to drink in my name, because ye belong to Christ, verily I say unto you, he shall not lose his reward.” (Mark 9:41) . If I live to be a thousand, Deer Are Travelers Checking with Pennsylvania authorities, George Werden, Cal- ifornia State Game Warden, re- cently wrote: “Am enclosing an affidavit made by Earl Nissley, of Pasadena, California. According to his affidavit, he killed a doe deer on November 28, 1950, in Cumber- land County, Pa., on a non-resi- dent license. It was transported into California on December 29.” The Pennsylvania Game Comm- ission has announced that this spring will see the largest libera- tion of pheasants ever in the his- tory of the Commonwealth when, under a new program, over 107,000 of these birds will be released in favorable habitat. In recent years, Pennsylvania's pheasant program has been vastly improved. The day-old chick pro- gram, carried on by sportsmen’s organizations, Farm-Game cooper- ators and individual farmers has played a definite part. So has that of the sportsmen who raised chicks and held the hens over winter, following which one cock bird was supplied for liberation with every ten hens held until spring. But a new feature that has in- creased the pheasant population has been considerably stepped-up. Under this program, pheasant hens are not released in fall as they formerly were. They are cared for during winter in large, state con- structed pens. This plan almost entirely overcomes winter loss due to predators, autos and other causes and results in a spring re- lease of lady birds that are in ex- cellent condition to produce flocks in the wild. All surplus male pheasants are. released in fall, preceding and dur- ing the open season. In the early spring, prior to the mating season, cocks are liberated in all pheasant territories in sufficient numbers to insure maximum natural propa- gation. Bucks Lost Antlers Early Numerous hunters reported that antlers pulled off bucks when they tried to move their kills in the 1950 deer season. Remarking on the prevalence of this occurr- ence, David Titus, game protect- or at Warren, says: “During the final two days of the last buck season I did not check a single deer that carried a normal set of antlers. Some bucks had one antler when killed. Hunters tied antlers to heads or carried them in their hunting coats to prove the legality of their kill. Some deer lost their racks when they fell. In other cases, antlers were pulled from the head when the hunter tried to drag his deer.” Raymond Shaver, Titusville, Farm-Game Area Leader, reports: “There seemed to be an unusually large number of cases of ,prema- ture loss of antlers in this vici- nity, among both large and small buck deer. I observed two bucks with one antler missing and checked four kills with one antler gone. 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