; We have the nicest report to
make this week that we have every
given to our readers. This may
~ not be news to most Lake Town-
ship citizens,, but from letters we
have received in the past,we learn-
ed that we have a few followers
out-of-town who used to live here
and they like to know what is
going on.
It was announced by Principal
~ George Taylor at the meeting of
the executive board of Luzerne
~ County Teachers’ Association at
~ Hoetl Redington last Monday night
that the school board of Lake
~ Township had given the teachers
a $200.00 a year cost of living in-
~ crease. This increase was given
voluntarily by the board after a
teacher representing the faculty
~~ appeared at a meeting and proved
~ that the salaries of teachers set by
the state laws was not sufficient to
keep the average American family
these days in the common necessi-
ties of life. We wish his same
~ argument could be placed before
the state legislature.
: Of course, we know that teach-
ers’ salaries were raised by the
State two years ago. The minimum
salary was fixed then for an in-
~ structor, holding a college certi-
ficate, at $2,200 a year with a
$200.00 raise each year for eight
years, A teacher holding a Master's
Degree getting $200.00 additional,
but the State had no way of know-
ing when it passed this law that
the cost of living was going to rise
to such heights that a teacher who
is head of a family could not live
within that amount without going
into debt.
The average salary at our school
prior to this raise’ was $2709 a
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year. Now it is $2909, or a little
less than $56.00 a week. Take
out of that around four bucks for
retirement and income tax and it
leaves a net of $52. Try living
on that with a wife and a couple
of kids to support. The average
salary for teachers throughout the
State is $3177.00.
Of course that may be a lot of
money to some who haven't been
fortunate enough to have a college
education, but to the average union
rian $52 is less than three days’
pay.
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The trouble with teachers com-
pelling us to pay more of a living
wage, as we see it, is: 1. They
are not organized. 2. There are
so many of them that are not
heading a family so do not have
to make a living wage. 3. They
are so wrapped up in their busi-
ness of helping us raise our chil-
dren, and doing such a good job
of it, that they haven’t the time
to lobby for their rights.
We are happy that at least one
school board in this state has seen
lits way clear to note the helpless-
ness of the teacher and partly
rectify a wrong that has existed
for years. Now, if the school bus
drivers and other help will receive
an increase we will be happier.
Of course, we may be accused
of being prejudiced as we have
two school teachers in our family,
but we have ne preachers and we
feel the same way about them.
We never could understand why
a man should become so enthused
saving our souls that he would al-
low us to forget that he has to
eat, buy coal, pay rent, and have
the same hundred other uses for
money that we have, but with so
THE POST, FRIDAY, MAR
H 9,
1951
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By Phyllis Smith “More than a mewspaper, The Book Worm
a 8 || a community institution”
That fearful and wonderful day
known as the day before Christmas
arrived in due time and by nine
o'clock the Battle of The Baggage
or the cold war between Smith
versus Greyhound was in full
sway. The turkey was by then
worth its weight and then some
in phone calls but Sherlock Smith
was determined to have his turkey
for Christmas dinner or else. Our
phone did ring once and one small
Smith was almost trampled to
death by Norm as he rushed to
the ringing phone only to find
out it was the wrong number.
Norma and I were busy in the
kitchen and Wade kept the boys
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amused and it was lunch time
before we realized it. After lunch
Norm told us to go ahead and
make the filling and all of us had
the presence of mind to question
the orders. If he wanted to pre-
tend he was going to have a tur-
key dinner the next day we de-
cided to let him. I asked Norm
for something I knew was out in
the barn so we got him out of
the house for a little while.
Punchy was in a tizzy to decide
which church program to go to
that night. Since we moved here
he has been going to two churches
each Sunday and when we think
back on how he used to fuss about
going to one we wonder whatever
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much less an income.
Paying the teacher a living wage
is. a matter to be taken up with
the tax collector. Paying a
preacher a living wage is a matter
to be taken up with our Maker and
He is so much easier forgotten
than the former.
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OUT OF THIS WORLD
Across the Himalayas to
Forbidden TIBET
by Lowell Thomas, Jr.
Dan Waters
As you pick up this rather thin
travel book you will notice the
shadowy lines showing pictures at
the edges of the pages.’ And pic-
tures there are, over one hundred
of them, about a third of them in
color. If you like pictures of far
away places with strange sounding
names and of the people who live
there, you will not be disappointed
in this book.
Tibet lies about half-way around
the world from Texas, roughly in
same latitude, and is about twice
as big. It is the highest big plateau
in the world buttressed by the
mighty Himalayas on the south and
the Kunlun Mountains on the
north. It is high and dry but not
arid, a land of high mountains,
deep gorges, swift rivers and many
lakes. The Hwang, Yantgze, Mek-
ong, Salwin, Irawaddy, Brahma-
putra, and Indus all rise in Tibet.
The passes crossed by the author
and his father, The Lowell Thomas
of books, newsreels, and radio,
were all from 15,000 to 16,000 ft.
above sea level with overlooking
mountains 24,000 ft. high.
The column is too short for de-
tails of their journey over the
Himalayas from India and across
the valley of the Tsangpo (Brahma-
putra) by pack train to Lhasa and
can mention only briefly some of
their impressions of the people.
While some tribes are very large,
most Tibetans are short and sturdy.
For hundreds of years foreigners
have been excluded and time has
stood still with relation to activi-
ties elsewhere in the world. There
are no railroads, highways, or even
roads, no wheeled vehicles being
permitted. The walled cities are
dirty with the accumulated refuse
of centuries and heavily infested
by rats. Here is what the author
says about his first experience in
a native two-story stone house.
“As in most homes in Tibet that
are not’ Yak-hair tents, the ground
floor + was reserved for caravan
animals, plus the owner's Yaks,
cows, goats and chickens. The
usual vicious, snarling mastiff that
guards a Tibetan household lunged
at us from the end of a yak rope
in the courtyard. To reach the
living quarters we mounted a
rickety ladder which landed us in
an upper patio, with dirt floored
rooms on all sides. One was a
smoke-filled kitchen with a hole in
the roof for a chimney; another, a
dark, cell-like compartment with
Tibetan Buddist images surrounded
by metal dishes, holding the yak-
butter lamps that are lighted during
‘devotions. The living quarters were
devoid of furniture, except for two
low divans and a low red-lacquered
table in each cubicle. The plumb-
ing? It was of the outdoor variety
— a slit in the floor over the man-
ure pile downstairs”.
The favorite ceremonial and
other drink is yak-butter tea made
with boiling water, tea, soda, and
yak butter, mixed in the consis-
tency of thick gravy. Ancient eggs
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INDIAN LEGENDS
Editor, The Barnyard
Dear Sir:
I noticed that you printed the
Indian version of the 23rd Psalm
in last week’s Post. I have a feel-
ing that Mrs. ‘Herbert Williams
sent this to you, — she read it at
the Trucksville Church Sunday
night service sponsored by the W.
S. C. S. at which Mrs. William
Parsons of Kingston showed slides
of the Laguna Indians in New
Mexico.
At the regular W. S. C. S. meet-
ing the previous Thursday, several
squaws sat around a wigwam and
campfire in blankets and told
Indian legends — which I dug up
out of a number of books. In each
case I shortened the story. I didn’t
bother to keep bibliographical re-
ferences because I didn’t see any
point to it. I didn’t confine my ef-
forts to the legends of any par-
ticular tribe. For example, there
are nearly as many versions of the
creation story as there are tribes.
Perhaps you might like to use
these, or some of them, anyhow.
To me, they are very beautiful.
Loretta Oliver
Why Spring Comes Every Year
Star Boy was the offspring of a
mortal maiden and a star. Often
he fought for mankind against the
fearsome North Wind. After a des-
perate battle between the two in
which first one would win then the
other, they declared a truce. While
resting Star Boy continued to fan
himself with his great fan of eagle
feathers and the snow melted so
fast that North Wind was forced
to arrange a treaty of peace by
which he was in control only half
of the year. This brought about the
orderly arrangement of the seasons.
Over and over again, Star Boy with
his fan of eagle feathers, sets in
force the warm winds that usher in
the spring. — from the Sioux
How God Made Different Men
" Having resolved to create man-
kind, the Great Spirit made first
a man whose skin was black;
which, on contemplation, did not
please him. His second effort was
more successful; this creation
proved to be a red man. But al-
though gratified at the improve-
ment in the color of the second
man, the Spirit felt constrained to
make another trial. This time, the
man he created was white; this
was satisfactory.
| Calling the three men before
him, he. exhibited ' to fthem three
: boxes. The first box contained
books and papers; the second was
filled with = bows and arrows and
tomahawks; the third held spades,
axes, hoes and hammers. The Great
Spirit then addressed them in
these words:
“These, my sons, are the means
by which you are to live; choose
among them”. The white man, the
youngest brother, being the fa-
vorite, was allowed the first
choice. He passed by the working-
tools — the axes, hoes and ham-
mers — without notice; but when
he came to the weapons of war and
hunting, he hesitated, examining
them closely. The red man trem-
bled; he desired the hunting weap-
ons and he was afraid he might
lose them. But the white man
passed them by, and chose the box
of books. The red man’s turn came
next; he seized upon the bows and
arrows and tomahawks, and his
soul was glad within him. Then
the black man, the Spirit's first
offspring, having no choice left,
/
humbly took the box ef tools. —
from the Seminole. t
An Indian Prototype Of Christ
(This legend predates by many
years the coming of the first Chris-
tian missionary to these people).
A great many snows ago, there
lived a young Hupa whose name
was Gard. He loved the paths of
honesty and clean was his heart.
His words were not crooked or
double. He went everywhere teach-
ing the people the beauty of meek-
ness. He said ‘Love peace and es-
So shall ye prosper greatly and the
Great One above shall build you
up like a rock on the mountains.
The forest shall yield in abundance.
The red-fleshed salmon shall never
fail in the river. Ye shall rest in
your wigwams in great joy, and
your children shall run in and out
like the young rabbits of the field
for number.”
And the fame of Gard went
through the land. Gray-headed men
came many days’ journey to sit at
his feet.
Now it chanced that young Gard
was absent from his wigwam for
many days. His brother was griev-
ously distressed and his heart died
within him. He assembled together
a great company of braves, saying
to them “Surely a wild beast has
devoured him, for no man would
lay hands on one so gentle”. Day
after day they searched through
the forests and the mountains and
shouted through the gloomy can-
ons. They listened with bated
breath. No sound returned to them
but the broken echo of their own
voices. One by one they returned
to their homes, but still the broth-
er wandered on. As he went
through the forests he exclaimed
aloud. “O Gard, O my brother! if
you are indeed in the land of
spirits, then speak to me at least
one word .with the voice of the
wind, that I may know it for cer-
tainty and therewith be content.
Then one day, Gard suddenly
appeared to him. He came as it
were out of the naked hillside or
as if dropping from the sky, so
sudden was the: apparition. The
brother of Gard stood still before
him and gazed at him as upon one
risen from the dead, and his heart
was frozen. Gard said: “Listen! I
have been in the land of spirits.
I have beheld the Great Man above.
The Great Man has sent me to tell
the Hupa that they must dwell in
woancord with®8ne anb#her and wsth
neighboring tribes." "Put away
thoughts of vengeance. Wash your
hearts clean. Redden your arrows
no more in your brother’s blood.
Then the Great Man will make you
to increase greatly in this land.
Ye must not only hold back your
arms from warring and your
hands from blood-guiltiness, but ye
must wash your hearts as with
water. Then when ye are clean and
thirst no more for blood, ye shall
keep the Dance of Peace which the
Great Man has appointed. When ye
observe it, if ye are clean in your
hearts, there shall be the sign eof
smoke ascending. But if in your
hearts there is yet a corner full of
hatred that ye have not washed
away, there shall be no sign. If in
your secret minds ye still study
vengeance, it is only mockery that
ye enact, and there shall be no
smoke ascending.
Having uttered these words, Gard
was ‘suddenly wrapped in a thick
cloud of smoke, and the cloud
floated up into the Land of Spirits.
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chew war and the shedding of.
blood ...... Dwell together in love.
Let your hearts be as one heart.