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went to school.
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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
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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
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Ten Years Ago In The Dallas Post
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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
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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. Strangely, five of these
six bucks lacked the right antler.”
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