Yi PAGE TWO Bin, Tr eather By William J. Robbins Jr. FACTS Many people have in their pos- session Indian-head pennies but few realize that the famous profile is not that of an Indian. It was gener- ally believed to be the face of a famous chief but the truth is she was a white girl by the name of Sarah Lonkacre, daughter of the head engraver of the Philadelphia mint back in 1835. Sarah was ‘ten years of age at the time, and the Government offiered a prize of $1,000 for an appropriate design [for the mew one-cent piece. Many artists competed for this prize for the ‘amount was indeed large at that early date. Records are 'to ‘the effect that a group of Indian chiefs from the west came east to visit their “Great White Father,” President Andrew Jackson, in Washington. They were also taken for a visit to the mint at Philadelphia where they met and were entertained by Mr. Longacre in his home. Sarah was' overjoyed: to meet real Indians and in her own home at that. It was during their acceptance of this white man’s hos- pitality that the little girl was per- mitted to play with the feathered head-dresses and other beaded or- naments. An artist who happened to be present on the occasion made a hurried sketch of her face set off by the Indian headgear. (Greatly admired by many of his friends, the antist’s sketch of little Sarah was among the hundreds of entries for the new ‘penny-to-be prize, and it was chosen for the new design. . Indian pennies are getting rarer and rarer, and if one has such in his possession, they are good coins to hold onto for they are increasing in value as the years roll on. fon Certain bees, dalled guest-bees or inquilines, are reared in the brood nests of other bees, and do mo work whatsoever. They live on the fruits of labor of their hosts. tl Pr, When winter sets in, the ruffed grouse ‘puts on’ snowshoes. These consist of a row of projecting plates on each side of each toe. Because of ‘this arrangement the bird can tread on loose snow without sinking mn. One type of ant, called the corn- louse ant, cares for the eggs of the plant-lice which feed on the roots of grasses and grains. The eggs are kept in the nest of the ant during the winter. In this way the ant colony is assured of a herd of plant lice for the following summer. The plant-lice supply the ants with honey-dew, a sweetish secretion. aE EL Cin There are certain bugs called the ambus-bugs, that conceal them- selves in flowers, and capture in- sects that come to the flower for nectar. The front legs of these bugs are very strong and wonderfully adapted for ~ gresping. They are greenish in color, with. a black band across the abdomen. A pr There is an egg-eating snake in Africa called the Dasypeltis which has only ja few teeth, for those stuc- tures are mot utilized in cracking the shell of an egg. The shell is cracked by la number of spines, tipped with enamel, located in the gullet of the reptile. In this way none of the egg is lost, as would be the case if the egg were broken in the mouth by means of teeth. The shell of the egg is alwalys thrown out. AO Ul hee Many enjoyable hours can be had in quest of the nest of a meadow- lark. ‘And what a treasure trove if such is found. This prince of sum- mer birds builds a roomy bungalow, roofed over with a door to the east. Eggs may be looked for as early as May, and earlier if you go south- ward. You may approach within a foot of a nest before lady lark will flush. You may then observe four or more cinnamon-spotted eggs. The worth of the meadowlark to the farmer can scarcely be over- estimated. He not only gleans over the surfare of the fields, but, as few birds can, he reaches down with his long, sensitive bill into the earth among the grass roots and removes offenders there. The Department of Agriculture estimates that a mea- dow-lark is worth at least $25.00 per season in the removal of grass- hoppers alone. If, however, when hardpressed, he takes toll of grain seeds, he is easily justified, like the hired man who eats the farmer's biscuits that he may wield the hoe against the farmer's weeds. pis Seis ~ % THE POST, FRIDAY, APRIL 25, 1952 8 : KEEPING POSTED JURY DUTY EDWARD H. KENT -. — 83 This actually happened. Our friend Jim was driving in a crowded down- town street of a city mot in this State. It was a beautiful June day, and the place was swarming with kids who had no other place to play. A car going too fast passed Jim, hit a small boy, and kept on going. Jim stopped, picked up the boy, and took him to the hospital. Jim was arrested, tried; and found guilty, several people swearing that he had struck the boy. Jim got off with a fine, hospital expenses, dam- ages, and the fact that he had in- surance was beside the point. Now if you found yourself in the situation that Jim was in, what kind of men and women would you like to have on ‘the jury that was going to bring in a verdict of guilty or innocent? You would want the very highest type of citizen in the community, of course. So the mext time you are called for jury duty, don’t go to the judge with some sad tale about being terribly busy, that you cannot pos- sibly be away from your business. If your business is so organized that you cannot leave it for five days, better take the office-boy in part- nership with you. Don’t tell the judge that you are sick, that you have a severe pain in the meck. He will tell you to run along and get a doctor's certificate, then either you or the doctor will be embarrassed. Certainly it will cost you money to serve on @a jury. Most anyone can make more money at his job or his business than the jury fees amount to, and often they don't even cover a juror’s expenses. So what! Jury duty is an obliga- tion of citizenship. You would like to have an intelligent, high-grade jury try 'you. So just make yourself one twelfth of a good jury to try the other fellow. Mrs. Merle Shaver Is Hostess To Bible Class Mrs. Merle Shaver, Idetown, en- tertained members of the [Serving and Waiting Class of Idetown Meth- odist Church last Thursday evening. Assisting her were Mrs. Emory Had- sel. Present were Mrs. R. B. Shaver, Mrs. [Chloe Spencer, Mrs, Jesse Boice, Ms. Elmer Huff, Mrs. Ernest Fritz, Mrs. (Corey Meade, Miss Hazel Gordon, Mrs. Helen Smith, Mrs. Emory Hadsel, Mrs. Raymond iSpen- cer, Mrs. Arthur Montross, and the hostess. Auto Loans Bank Drafts Banking By Mail Business Loans Cashier's Checks Christmas Savings Collateral Loans Farm Loans Free Parking HAVE YOU TRIED THE NEW FREE PARKING LOT AT OUR KINGSTON OFFICE? ‘Main Office Market and Franklin Streets Wilkes-Barre Bank Money Orders Certificates of Deposit Collections (Foreign and Local) Commercial Checking Accounts Depository for Withholding Equipment Financing Aecond in. Wame MEMBER FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORP. 30 Banking Services offered by our - Kingston Office Club Tax ———— Home Loans Home Improvement Loans Income Tax Loans Installment Loans Life Insurance Loans Metered Checking Accounts Mortgage Loans Night Deposits Personal Checking Accounts Personal Loans Safe Deposit Boxes Savings Accounts Travelers’ Checks Trust Services U. S. Savings Bonds Only Kingston Office Wyoming Avenue at Union Street THE DALLAS POST “More than a mewspaper, a community institution” ESTABLISHED 1889 Member Pennsylvania Newspaper Publishers’ Association A mon-partisan liberal progressive newspaper pub- lished every Friday morning at the Dallas Post plant Lehman Avenue, Dallas Pennsylvania. Entered as second-class matter at the post office at Dallas, Pa., under the Act of March 8, 1879. Subscrip- tion rates: $3.00 a year; $2.00 six months. No subscriptions accepted for less than six months. Out-of state subscriptions: $3.50 a year; $2.50 six months or less. Back issues, more than one week old, 10c. 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Political advertising $1.10 per inch. Advertising copy received on Thurs- day will be charged at 75c per column nch. Classified rates 4c per word. Mini- mum charge 75c. All charged ads 10c additional. Unless paid for at advertising rates, we can give no assurance that an- nouncements of plays, parties, rum- mage sales or any affairs for raising money will appear in a specific issue. Preference will in all instances be given to editorial matter which has pot previously appeared in publication. Editor and Publisher HOWARD W. RISLEY Associate Editors MYRA ZEISER RISLEY MRS. T. M. B. HICKS Sports Editor WILLIAM HART Advertising Manager ROBERT F. BACHMAN ONLY YESTERDAY From The Post of ten and twenty years ago this week. dress or new subscription to be placed § From the Issue of April 24, 1942 Faithfully serving as employee of Trucksville Post office since 1935, Mrs. Jane Lohman is now acting postmaster, following resignation of Nicholas (Staub. Francis Tondora, 7, was the tragic vietim of a strange accident on Saturday, dying almost immediately after striking his throat on the corner of a box. Eric Weber, Navy. a Salvage will be collected tomor- row in the Salvage for Victory drive. Arthur Dymond, undaunted by gas and tire restrictions, pedals a bicycle from South Carolina to visit relatives in Beaumont. Lehman (Commuters ask for a daily bus service to connect with Dallas bus. Mrs. T. M. B. Hicks, in Pillar to Post, goes to the mat with a raw- beef sandwich. Shiavertown Firemen launch drive for new equipment. Beef liver, 29 cents per lb; buck shad, 10 cents Ib; strawberries, two boxes for 29 cents; Ivory (Soap, three large cakes, 29 cents; rich sharp cheese, 33 cents per lb. x Ruth Boyer Howell becomes the bride of R. Newton Davenport in the White (Churchon the Hill. Aileen Connor was married to Lauren Dymond on Wednesday at Shavertown Methodist church. Mrs. Charlotte Swire, Loyalvilie was buried in Maple Grove Tuesday For rent, Dallas, six rooms, bath, steam heat, garage, all improve- ments, $25 per monith. Noxen, joins the From the Issue of April 22, 1932 What Dallas needs, editorially speaking, is to put idle men to work migking much needed repairs on houses and getting the place painted up. Labor costs are way down, and this is the time to invest in a more prosperous looking town. Tilden A. Dotter died suddenly of a heart attack while visiting at the home of his sister, Mrs. Charles Brobst, Dallas. Wardan Kunkle's hat is in the ring for County (Committeeman. Kingston Township reelects four- teen out of sixteen teachers, ap- pointing a teacher to fill one vacan- cy created. Rural Baseball League held a re- organization meeting in Dallas on Monday. Back Mountain Quoit League will meet at Idetown on Monday. SAFETY VALVE BUDGET ACCOUNTS Dear Editor: Tt is about time that an investi- gation be made into the aggregate interest charge against a customer’s account, under the so-called ‘‘Bud- | get Contract Setup”, as used by de- partment stores and other stores selling merchandise on a credit basis. Behind the ‘Budget Contract” is laparently one of the smoothest interest making (money making) systems now in operation. This is a method whereby the actual price quoted on an article eventually be- comes many times greater within a matter of mere months and looms up on the customer’s charge account to accost him or her at a time when dollars are tight and only part pay- ments are being made. In Wyoming Valley where coal mining and textile industries seem to be the leading attractions for the workers, it is a known fact that labor troubles are ever prevalent as well as seasonal interruptions. These conditions cause many well meaning people to delay in making full pay- ments on their Budget ‘Accounts. Most of these folks are honest and mean to live up to the very letter of the contract; but when unions become cantankerous and long, dis- couraging parleys take place, weeks and even months go by during arbi- tration when no dollars flow into the workers’ coffers. Call this per- formance by industries what you may, seasonal, temperamental, etc, or even accuse them of too frequent intermittent delays in operations, due to the foregoing troubles, but the fact remains that—where there is mo work there are mo dollars, usually. These workers have out- standing obligations which must be met and that is when storekeepers, extending “Budget Contracts”, begin to use the interest rate system on the original purchase and the amounit of interest charged for the few dollars worth of merchandise tied up, is breath taking. There is no set amount of interest it coa- tinues to igo on and on, indefinitely. ‘A constructive plan should be put into effect immediately to prevent further picking of the last dollar from the small wage earner, out of work from time to time due to work stoppage over which he has mo control. Although nothing more is added such as merchandise to the original contract account by the pur- chaser the store will continue to add its “interest charge” and a “carry- ing charge” each month and the balance, possibly a hundred dollars or so, will continue to grow in [favor of the creditor while the wage earner is out of work desperately trying to meet his obligations. These stores, these credit establishments go right along advertising in the newspapers, over television, radio, etv., how easy it is to settle your new home, your apartment on your “credit buying”. Youth today has a very poor sense of value, due mostly to the era in which he or she lives finding it so easy to get things on credit, things which must be paid for eventually. The price of the articles is one thing, but when the interest rate and the carrying charge are added and a few months slip by ‘the purchaser is unable to reconcile his existing account with the contract figure agreed upon. This is the part not dwelt upon too thoroughly in making ‘the contract. Some years ago thousands upon thousands of loan sharks moved into our communities in many states in the union charging unmerciful in- terest rates on the small amounts borrowed. A borrower had to sign away almost life itself, as collateral, for the few dollars loaned to him. It took many years of hard work on the part of level headed business men and women such as bankers, industrialists, insurance specialists, heads of educational institutions, etc., to drive these unwanted un- scrupulous manipulators from our midst. Today a counterpart of these same slight-of-hand-artists, these loan sharks sit behind desks in tie so-called Credit Bureaus of big des partment stores. and other stores throughout the credit extension selling, on a large scale. They operate much on the same order as those manipulators of yesteryear, because if the purchaser should fall ill, or his factory close its doors a few months, he is paying an unmerciful rate of interest and a carrying charge tacked onto the existing balance which grows, grows and grows upon his temorary inter- ruption of work, upon his ill luck. This practice is ‘most unscrupulous as the small wage earner is nearly always honest and fif given a chance will pay his debts, but during the page the number of dollars mow owing the store has become an amount with which the purchaser is wholly unfamiliar. Credit buying is rapidly becoming a menace to our land. Young people are so far out on paper that they must plan upon work for years ahead to meet standing obligations; and during thes. perilous days of war, union grumblings, etc., it would be hard for a learned sage of the land to predict our economic standards of tomorrow. Tvah M. Mitchell Elmcrest Drive Dallas, Pennsylvania Lod \ land engaged in | months of setback and work stop- | § Barnyard Notes ie 4 He who has lived fifty summers has learned that “Good Morn- ing” is a_far better greeting than, “How Are You?” The latter salutation lays open to a recital of every ache, pain and pressure in the human body. I promised Mort Connelly my lawn roller for last Saturday after- noon but the boy who was to roll my lawn first failed to show up, so I called Mort and told him he’d have to get the roller Monday morning unless I could find somebody within the next hour or so to push it. “I'll get you a fellow right away,” said Mort confidently, “Be there on the next bus out of Luzerne”. Mort hasn’t rolled his lawn yet. I pity the kids now-a-days. They're so exhausted with planned recreation that in most cases the old man would rather mow the lawn or carry up a scuttle of coal than to oppress the younger gen- eration with a few home chores. Can’t say as I was any great shakes as a kid, but I peddled show bills every Saturday all over Tunkhannock to earn a free ticket to the nickelette, and I got hell lathered out of me if I walked across the street in front of a one-lung automobile, hung around the railroad station or went down to the river. About that age today a kid is driving his old man’s car ninety-miles-an-hour after midnight—and folks wonder what's wrong with the younger genera- tion. : No self-respecting employer would send his help home on Fri- day afternoon as tired as they come back to work on Monday morn- ing. : Oh, hum, it's a great world. Even the guys in prison want it softer. If a man can get away from the visitors and the women in the house long enough, a lot of his worries about the state of the world will disappear. : A chipmunk scampers just as always. A daffodil blooms as pertly. A wood thrush has the same liquid song. Arbutus is as sweetly scented. The stars mount the heavens as quietly. The red buds burst on the maples and the peepers call as wist- fully as they did before the atom bomb and Roosevelt. Only the old spring yearning for romance and adventure is gone. April mornings are as electric. Evenings are laden with the fragrance of apricot and nectarine blooms, but instead of a date with a pretty girl—any girl, we've got one with a shovel transplant- ing young hollyhock plants under the barn floodlight. The Library Auction must be coming earlier this year. It is already almost impossible to drive the car in the barn without cracking the mirror to a dresser or running into a toboggan. Four deer heads are piled neatly in the angle of a first floor support so that they nicely cover the barn light switch. I learned that late the other night when I reached for the switch and thought I was strok- ing a fox. TL DOLLARS BUILD A WALL AGAINST THE RISING noe OF CANCER 4 \ THI ILLLRY ~Ny D GIVE To THE SX AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY Ao. ® ® od ® - Enjoy Alben's DELICIOUS ICE CREAM Gal. $1.15 BOWMAN'S Early American RESTAURANT Lake St. Phone 9092 ° Dallas: > Richard H. Disque Funeral Service DALLAS, PA. Dignified — Efficient — Considerate Friendly Recommendation from families served. Phone Dallas 474-13 7
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