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: You Kuow Me
Al Himself
This is an open letter to our
daughter, June. She wrote and
asked her Mom what we thought
of the MacArthur incident, and
would we please tell her, as she is
a little confused.
Dear June Bug:
You are not the only one con-
fused, we all are, even including
| the two principals, General Mac-
Arthur and President Truman, but
here it is a week or more since
MacArthur has been removed and
the world hasn’t come to an end
yet, which I was told might happen
anytime now. That thought was a
threat of many the day: the big
news broke.
You must remember that
both Truman and MacArthur are
just a couple of human beings with
their failings and good points just
like other persons. Above all, you
can’t beat the emotion of the
people of this country. They are
always for the underdog, they al-
ways line up with the one who.
gets fired. It was this strong
emotion that forced the president
to go on the air the night after
he removed the general. This he
did not plan to do. One could tell
that by the terrible way he fumbled
around with his speech.
Let's take MacArthur's side of it
first, and when you do that con-
sider your three brothers are over
in Korea fighting. They have
~ reached a point of futility, they
cannot see any end to it. Mac-
Arthur wants to keep morale and
courage up. He wants to take care
of his fighting men. He wants to
show them that there is a way to
end this mess. Let's go in and
slam hell out of the enemy any-
where in the world and get it over
with and then your three brothers
can come home. That is what I
would want if I were an Amer-
jcan soldier or marine fighting in
Korea. I'd say use the atomic
bomb and everything we've got,
I want to get home.
Now, let’s take the President’s
side. Under the Constitution he is
Commander-in-Chief. He can re-
move any general or admiral at
will. That's the law. We have
a ,State Department that decides
policy. We have a Chief-of-Staff
that carries out - that policy by
force or by peaceful methods. We
can’t have every general all over
the world changing our foreign
policy. Suppose MacArthur de-
cided a foreign policy and acted
on it, then Eisenhower decided
another and enforced it, and then
Marshal came along with another
idea and tried to put it into effect,
why, we'd be more confused than
you or I am now.
So, therefore I think that the
President is right. but he could
have removed MacArthur in a
' better manner. .He could have sent
for him and instructed that he
appear before Congress with his
ideas, as the Republicans are ad-
vocating, and then never send him
back.
In my opinion Truman wants to
do exactly what MacArthur wants
to do, but he can’t because we are
not vrepared for an all-out war.
Whose fault is that? Well. the
Republicans blame the administra-
tion and those in power blame the
Republicans, which ‘is just a Jot of
hooey politics. That is what licked
France in the second World War.
There were about fifteen political
parties over there and they could
not get tosether. The fault of our
unpreparedness is mine and all the
rest of my fellow Americans.. When
the Second World War ended I
shouted to heaven to get your
three brothers home. Every one
else in this country thought the
same thing. We put so much pres-
sure on the administration that the
army was disbanded. Then we
complained about taxes, so one
battleship after another was junk-
ed. Our planes were sold and no
more were built. Yes, it is my
fault, June Bug, that we are not
prepared but I have awakened. We
are preparing as fast as. we can
now and when we get ready Mac-
Arthur will have his wish., We
will tell those Reds to get out of
Korea or there will be an all-out
war.
In the meantime, sweetheart,
don’t listen to a Democrat criticis-
ing a Republican, or visa versa.
We've got to get those two parties
together by supporting the best
men of both.
Remember, June, these are mere-
ly my ideas. If you become con-
fused again, ask your husband his
opinion. That's part of your job
now.
Good luck to you,
Love from
Pop
Blue Ridge Chanter FHA
Publishes 6th Annual
Blue Ridge Future Farmers of
America, Lehman-Jackson High
School, have brought out their
sixth annual FFA News. The yel-
low cover shows a picture of Vo-
cational Agriculture students with
their instructor, Russell Ruble.
Inside, fat little pigs cavort over
the pages, indicative of the club's
interest in Duroc Swine. Cartoons
abound, with jokes finishing off
a publication devoted to the year’s
happenings, prizes won at Harris-
burg, projects carried through,
more projects to come, and special
| features such as selection of Club
Sweetheart and accounts of pic-
nics and tours.
Pages are mimeographed and as-
sembling done by students, covers
printed commercially.
Poet's Corner
8 — RS
Golden Jubilee
(Dedicated to my friends, Mr. and
Mrs. Alvah Evans)
The bride’s bright gleaming tresses
Have softened into gray
And her bridegroom’s eager foot-
steps
More slowly wend their way,
The years have touched them
gently
With joy and yet with woe
And mellowed youthful vigor
Into a tranquil glow.
The fervor and the passion
Of sweet young love have passed
And in their stead devotion,
As long as life shall last.
Within their eyes lie wisdom
To meet each dawning day
And accept with deep contentment
Whatever comes their way.
Their dreams have mét fulfilment
For in that long ago,
When she was just a maiden
And he her favorite beau,
They dreamed of years to-gether,
Shared sweetly as could be
And now at last they celebrate
Their golden jubilee.
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Dorothy Anderson has always en-
joyed writing better than anything
else, but instead of going to Colum-
bia to study constructive English,
she entered training at General
Hospital after graduating from G.
A. R. High School.
Graduated from General, she
once more contemplated entering
Columbia to study writing, but
again fate stepped in, offering her
a course in administrative nursing
instead.” This she did not want,
though much interested in Public
Health problems. An opening on
the Visiting Nurses appeared just
one week after she was married,
after she had remained on the wait-
ing list for three years of private
duty following graduation.
Now, twenty years, a marriage,
and two children after graduation
from training, she still breaks out
in an occasional rash of poetry,
reverting to her original tendencies.
For six months, some two years
ago, she did news-writing for the
Dallas Post, and more recently for
the Sunday Independent. Poor
health forbade further outside
work in October, so for. the past
few months she has done no regular
stint of writing.
But every once in a while she
is impelled to write a poem. The
April 13 issue of the Dallas Post
carries a scorching bit of verse on
the front page in the editorial box,
inspired by dismissal of General
MacArthur. Buried modestly in
the Poet's Corner in the same issue
is a set of stanzas on Spring. The
editorial poem, “An American’s
Prayer,” written at white heat and
completed at one sitting with very
little revision, uses not one surplus
| word. She goes straight to the
point in brutal couplets which leave
her readers no doubt of her feel-
The impact is terrific.
Mrs, Anderson would like to see
a constructive writing group formed
in the Back Mountain, attracting
people who enjoy writing and
would be willing to work hard
on assignments, accepting contruc-
tive criticism without annoyance.
Wilkes, she feels, is too hard to
reach for evening courses, and most
people who would be interested in
a study group are folks who are
busy during the day and unable
to attend regular classes. The way
to write, she says, is to write. It
is easier to write if there is com-
petition. Only the genuius sits
down to write without the spur of
necessity. A definite course in
writing provides incentive, a dead-
line, and a definite goal.
Mrs. Anderson is much interest-
ed in schools. Her husband is on
the Kingston Township School
Board, and she herself is secretary
of the Shavertown PTA. She con-
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An unusually good student, po-
lite and cooperative in everything
except one, a small member of
Jehovah's Witnesses is posing a
problem at Dallas Borough School
by refusing to salute the flag.
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Council” at the annual dinner,
April 28.
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Florence Hazletine, Main Street,
and William Monk, Pinecrest Ave-
nue, will be united in matrimony
today.
Janet Miles, Plymouth, and An-
drew Kuchta, Alderson, were mar-
ried April 5.
Marriage of Jeanne Hayden,
Ridge Street, and Gerald Snyder,
Dallas Township, was solemnized
on Saturday.
Future Farmers of Lehman held
their second annual banquet on
Wednesday.
Little Colonel Wins
Two Points on Champion
Little Colonel, 8 month old
Welsh Terrier, sired by Champion
Licken Run’s High Circuit, out of
Robinson's Cresheim Catch Penny,
took first in the puppy class. at
the Kennel Club Show of Northern
New Jersey, at Teaneck, April 1;
at Lackawanna Kennel Club Show
in Scranton, April 14, first in puppy
class, winners dog, and best of
opposite sex, winning 2 points to-
ward championship.
The Thomas Robinsons will show
him next at Wilmington, Del., April
28, and at Penn Treaty Kennel
{ Club at Booth’s Corner, Pa., April
29. :
He could not be entered in Back
Mountain Show on Sunday, as en-
try is barred to the secretary of
the club.
1951
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The Book Worm
Henry Gross and His Dowsing Rod
by Kenneth Roberts
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There
Roberts
tion at
are two books by Kenneth
in the Book Club collec-
Back Mountain Memorial
Library, both of them recent addi-
tions. The earlier one is ‘“Trend-
ing Into Maine”, the most recent
one “Henry Gross and His Dows-
ing Rod”.
The first book explains why
Maine is the only state the author
could possibly live in and be happy,
his only problem the selection of
the one perfect spot among so
many prospects. It goes back into
the history of the state, touches
lightly upon the making of a fish
chowder, and gives a recipe for
tomato catchup. It is readable
| and gives an unwitting picture of
the author and his foibles as well
as characteristics of Maine. But it
doesn’t come up to ‘Henry Gross
and his Dowsing Rod.”
Everybody has heard of water
dowsers. . Most people view dows-
ing with a tongue in the cheek.
But after reading this volume, most
people will wonder whether Ken-
neth Roberts has been taking them
for a ride; or if it would be a good
idea to send a map of their prop-
erty to Henry Gross before en-
dowing the well driller.
After reading the book at one
sitting, with midnight far to the
rear, I still do not know whether
I have been sold a bill of goods or
not. People get music out of the
air, heat from a wire, a prize fight
from a ringside seat by remote
control. Why not believe that
underland water sets up a reaction
that can be felt by a sensitive
enough person, with or without
. benefit of a dowsing rod?
The trouble is that Henry Gross
has refined the art of dowsing to
the point where he can dowse for
water without leaving his easy
chair or removing his feet from
the desk.
He looks at a map, twirls the
dowsing rod—a forked stick—and
asks the rod where the water is,
how deeply it is buried, how many
underground veins converge and at
what preferred point. The fork,
eager to oblige, rubs off its own
bark and occasionally a bit of
Henry Gross’ skin when it tilts
in answer.
Henry marks on the map where
water is to be found, and drops
it in the mail. The property owner
digs where Henry recommends, to
the depth which the drowsing rod
designated, and there is the water.
It is when Kenneth Roberts tells
his readers ‘that the dowsing rod,
dipped in any specific substance,
will turn toward that material,
that we begin to wonder if he is
doing a bit of leg-pulling. And
when he avers that in sensitive
hands a dowsing rod or a swing-
ing pendulum will determine the
sex of the unborn child, except in
cases where the mother .is RH neg-
ative, the reader suspects that he
is being taken for a ride.
But here are the records, with
sex determined in an over-whelm-
‘ing percentage of the tests.
And there is Bermuda, with rain
water its only water supply, sud-
denly provided with fresh water
from deep wells, with another tre-
mendous offshore supply coming
up from the depths, already dowsed
and waiting only to be harnessed.
‘Whether you believe in dows-
ing or not, you should read the
book. You might be astonished.
President of Council
Joseph LeGrand, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Lewis LeGrand of Baldwin
street has been elected president
of Student Council at Millersville
State Teacher’s College. Joe is also
a member of the Industrial Arts
Society and Page Literary Society.
He is a member of the Junior Class.
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Back Mountain 4-H Dairy Calf
Club which enters its third year
of organization will be sponsored
by Dallas Kiwanis Club. This an-
nouncement by IL. G. Yearick,
Assistant County Farm Agent was
made on behalf of the 4-H Dairy
Calf Club which voted to have a
sponsor nearer to the area where
many of its members. live. Ki-
wanis president, Clyde Cooper and
J Aptientoal Chairman, Kenneth
Rice plan a welcome for the club to
be held a little later in the spring.
Kenneth Rice has been active in
supporting the club since its be-
ginning in 1949.
William Clewell, Trucksville,
along with the directors «pf the
Trucksville Volunteer Fire Com-
pany, has given the club its perm-
anent meeting place in the Trucks-
ville Fire Hall. Meetings are held
regularly on the third Friday of
each month at 7:45 p.m. Any ex-
tra activities are announced to the
club members by the secretary.
From a modest beginning in 1949
with eight registered calves en-
rolled in three breeds, the club
expanded in. 1950 to eleven calves
enrolled in the same three breeds,
Holstein, Guernsey and Ayrshire.
This year the active membership
expanded to fourteen members at
the first meeting with others plan-
ning to join. These fourteen mem-
bers enrolled fifteen calves, heifers
and three-year olds in four breeds,
Jersey, Holstein, Ayrshire and
Guernsey.
New officers will be elected at
the April 20th meeting. Last year’s
officers were: President, Bobby
Rice, Dallas; vice president, Danny
Bell, Pittston, R.D.; Sec.-Treas.,
Frank Prutzman, Trucksville.
Unlike any 4-H Dairy Calf Club
in Pennsylvania this Back Moun-
tain Club has appointed breed ad-
visers. These are as follows: Hol-
steins, Ralph Sands, Wyoming,
George Shoemaker (deceased), Wy-
oming, Guernseys, Mary Weir, Dal-
las; Ayrshires, Kenneth Rice, Dal-
las. A Jersey adviser will be elec-
ted by the club at the next meet-
ing.
The charter members who are
still in the club are Frank Prutz-
man, Trucksville;
Trucksville, R. D.; Richard Lewis,
Pittston, R. D.; Danny Bell, Pitts-
Roy Evarts,,
¥ Barnyard Notes - RE
The type seems to be getting finer in the newspapers and Hunts-
ville Road is steeper than it was a few years back.
You can add this to the something or other department, but we've
All football players look like kids.
The really pretty girls now have a streak of gray in their hair.
Most of our friends’ kids have graduated from college.
Peppermint lozenges taste good.
Forty-five miles an hour is fast enough.
It’s quicker to call a mechanic than fix a flat.
Repairing the roof is more important than a new car.
Fellows our age and much younger are running the world.
It’s more fun to hire a boy than rake the leaves.
Getting out of the bathtub is hazardous business.
Life insurance agents are no longer a problem.
It takes a little longer to get started in the morning.
It’s pleasanter to wait for the morning paper than to stay up
and listen to the eleven o’clock news.
Overshoes aren’t such a nuisance after all.
It’s a little bit ridiculous to call our friends “the boys” or “the
A Tuxedo will last, but it won't fit for a lifetime.
We scan the obituary column before we read the sports pages.
We remember vividly the day Lindbergh crossed the Atlantic.
We're afraid of the answers when the family doctor makes a
Young folks give us a seat in the bus.
We no longer charge every mistake to experience.
Old photographs interest us—so do letters.
We count the years ahead in fives rather than twenties.
Those two-inch patent medicine ads in the newspapers attract
We no longer object to wiping dishes.
We'd rather row a boat than paddle a canoe.
We canspeak nicely about an old girl without Myra's getting
There are plenty of grown folks who can’t remember World War I
Most of our friends wives have been disorganized.
Dallas Kiwanis To Sponsor
Back Mountain 4-H Calf Club
R.' D.; Edward Oncey, Dallas R.D.;
and Bobby Rice, Dallas. New mem-
bers from 1950 are Thomas Marvin
and John Marvin, Shickshinny, R.D.;
Ronald and Robert Young, Shick-
shinny, R.D.; David ° Strazdus,
Shickshinny, R. D.; Helen Mikolai-
chick, Pittston R. D.; and Janice
Bertram, Trucksville, R. D.
Records are kept of feed costs
by each club member in books pro-
vided by the Pennsylvania State
College. Production records of
heifers are also kept on a monthly
basis.
The Back Mountain Calf Club
already has a good show record at
the Northeast Pennsylvania 4-H
ne Calf Show held annually at
Grounds, Tunkhannock®"
Membership is open to boys and
girls between ages of 10 to 21 who
have the necessary buildings and
equipment for calf care.
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Mystery
by Mary C. Gilbert
The young couple were Belgian
and had not lived in the United
States: long.
musician of ability, the wife a
bride of a year and they occupied
the apartment above us.
They were a devoted couple and
almost childishly pleased with all
the new and wonderful things to
be seen, had and done in this new
country.
We noticed them sitting on the
lawn one late June evening, whisp-
ering together and pointing to the
fireflies, that were winking at the
dusk with their tiny lamps.
Presently the young couple ap- .
proached us in some confusion and
asked hestitantly about the “lights”.
A firefly was caught in the hand
and shown them, and they were
told of the strange small insect’s
life.
Looking at us with awe and
gratitude apparent in her face, the
young wife said ‘Floremon and
me—we thought them the spirits
of the departed!”
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