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. . . Safety
DO SOMETHING NOW!
Editor
The Dallas: Post
Dear Mr. Risley
The horrible slaughter and maim-
ing taking place on the streets and
highways in your community can
be drastically reduced. 4
You would not sit still while
thugs roamed your streets killing
and injuring boys and girls and men
and women. You would not wait un-
- til some member of your family or
a close friend was a victim before
swinging your newspaper into action
to bring a halt to such lawlessness.
‘Why are you so complacent about
the murder and maiming done by
motor vehicles in your community ?
The people are just as. dead or just
as seriously injured as though at-
tacked by a thug.
Why don’t you and your news-
paper do more about this mass
murder that cost some 38,000 lives
last year?
This terrible crime is not going
to be curtailed until each communi-
ty gets down to business combating
it. National and state programs
pave the way, but the actual work
must be done on a community level.
Your newspaper must lead: the
way in your community, the same
as you do in any other:major com-
munity problem. Take off the kid
gloves ‘and get down to brass
kunckles in battling this vicious
problem. SAE
Each ' community has its own
problems, so tailor your efforts to
fit your own area. We urge. you to
give this project top priority. Even
if it means reducing the toll by
only one death or one'injury—re-.
member that one may be yourself
‘or a member of your family.
Sincerely,
Quinton E. Beauge, (Chairman
Penna. Newspaper Publishers
Safety Committee
SAME THING APPLIES HERE
Dear Editor,
Ernest Joiner, the free-wheeling
editor of The Ralls’ (Tex.) Banner,
has suggested a reform that might
well be appropriate in some other
communities also. In his column, “It
Sez Here,” Editor Joiner observes:
“When Lester Bownd’s haystacks
caught fire Tuesday, he had no idea
how popular he was when he turned
in the alarm. He didn’t know that
150 automobiles would overrun his
property, tie up ‘traffic for an hour,
have drivers make damned fools of
themselves.
“But he must have appreciated
the interest these 150 people took
in leaving their jobs to make such
nuisances. We never:learned wheth-
er the fire truck got through the
open-mouthed group or not.
“We do know that when 100 cars
answered the fire alarm - at the
Reese home last’ week, the building
was lost to flames because the fire
truck and its firemen couldn't
squeeze through traffic to tie hose
onto a proper hydrant.
“And for pure excitement, the
drivers of about 100 cars gave their
families quite a ‘thrill Wednesday
night when the fire boys were called
to extinguish flames at Roden’s
grocery.
“You budding pyromaniacs keep
on fouling up firemen’s attempts to
extinguish fires, and sooner or later
the law will be forced to lock you
up, or else some responsible citizen
will take an elm club and thrash
you within an inch of your life for
impeding the work of the fire de-
partment. And we want pictures of
it when it happens.” (The emphasis
is ours.)
There's something wrong some-
where when the same sort of horse-
power that makes it possible to fight
fires more effectively prevents to-
day’s highly efficient (and expens-
ive) equipment from getting to the
fire. Next thing, we'll have to get
decoy fire trucks to lead the 200 hp
drivers with 100 gnat-power brains
Valve . . .
to the other side of town when a
fire breaks out.
Bob Taylor
Sincerely,
EVEN SAINTS GET DISCOURAGED
26 Broad St., Pittston, Pa.
Saturday, March 17, 1956
Dear Howard:
Sports page headlines strike my
funny bone, principally because I'm
not a sports fan and take their vo-
cabulary literally. But I had to
laugh at March 16 Dallas Post page
9; “Saints Topple Prince of Peace!”
And then “Saints Stage a Come-
back.”
. Maybe you don’t know the saints
very well, but I've worked among
‘em for 37 years. Sometimes I think
they threaten to topple the Prince
of Peace but then the Prince of
Peace proves Himself equal to the
occasion. Of course the saints aren't
supposed to be opposing the Prince
of Peace in the first place, because
the Prince of Peace is sure to win
in the end.
Sometimes the saints get dis-
couraged and carry a sure-nuff de-
featist attitude, and then again long
comes something ‘that puts a little
more pep into them and “the saints
stage a comeback.”—After looking
over the paper I see the reference
is to sports teams after all, and not
to the saints and the Prince!
Charlie
(Rev. ‘Charles Gilbert)
ANSWERS LETTER WRITER
Dear Mr. Editor:
My hat is off to t newspaper
men. I didn't realize that they had
such superlative powers to judge
and analyze personal opinions as
Alan Kistler did in your last issue
of The Dallas Post.
In the first place my statements
or ‘news items,” as it was put, are
based on facts and not opinions.
When Mr. Kistler stated his opiniens
I wonder whom he consulted about
them for basis of fact? Certainly
not Swanson!
Any opinion Mr. Kistler may have
had was based strictly on hearsay,
because he did not attend the
meeting in question, neither was
anything mentioned or brought up
about any private garbage dump or
any other dump.
iCan you blame me; Mr. Editor, for
defending myself, especially when
one Mr. Al Martin, the Committee-
man incumbent for the South Dis-
trict of Lake Township and now
seeking reelection, was passing the
word around that a certain person
“had a nice speech prepared for
Swanson at this meeting, and they
were going ‘to put Swanson in his
place.” To use the expression ‘‘to
put Swanson in his place” to me is
an attempt to embarrass.
I had no intention of putting any-
one on the spot. I was just exercis-
ing my right to defend myself. Let
the chips fall where they may.
Very truly yours,
‘Supervisor Carl T. Swanson
WRITER WILL EAT HAT
Editor
The Dallas: Post
Dear Sir:
I see where “BOB” has stuck his
neck out again! First with a com-
ment about Oral Roberts, and now
in the issue of March 9 one about
the Autherine: Lucy case. I believe
he has been watching fighting edi-
tor “Steve Wilson” on TV too much
and it has given him a complex of
some kind.
The North didn’t want prohibition
shoved down it's throat—why try
to shove integration down the throat
of the South? Northern newspapers
would do well to clean up their
own back yards. If, for example, the
people of Wilkes-Barre (or any
other place for that matter) tried
to interfere with Back Mountain
problems, what publication would
be the first to put up the loudest
Babson Park, Mass. — Today's
news features on automatic factor-
ies, cheap automatic power, and po-
litical uncertainties are grist for the
labor unions. Their leaders are say-
ing these things will cause unem-
ployment and that the only cure for
unemployment is a shorter work-
week. Talk is of a 30-hour week;
but my guess is the first move will
be to a 36-hour week—then a 32-
hour week.
What About Automatic Factories?
Factories have constantly become
more automatic for the past fifty
years. The great advance, however,
has come with the development of
electronics. Some industries, such
as the oil-refining industry, have
already become eighty per cent
automatic; it has had no unemploy-
ment and is paying the highest
wages ever. Union labor leaders
cannot yet show that the automatic
factory is causing unemployment.
In the long run, automation may
bring a shorter work-week; but the
of a manufacturing plant to be self-
operating is very expensive. Thous-
ands of consolidations must take
place before such revolutionary
‘changes will come about. There,
however, will be more opportunities
for new companies which can start
from the ground up with the very
latest automatic machinery. How-
ever, my chief purpose this week is
to suggest certain industries which
should definitely benefit from a
shorter work-week.
Leisure Beneficiaries
Best known is Spalding (A.G.) &
Bros., one of the largest manufac-
turers of baseball, basketball, foot-
ducts. Headquarters in Chicopee,
Massachusetts. Last year their stock
paid $0.50 (and 5% stock) and now
sells at about $19.
Brunswick - Balke -Collender, larg-
est manufacturer of bowling alleys,
billiard tables, and gymnasium
equipment. Main office in Chicago.
Common paid $0.25 (plus 5%
stock) last year and sells around
$28.
Stanley Warner Corp, one of the
best movie theater companies, in-
terested in Cinerama. Subsidiary
manufactures latex products. Offices
are at 1585 Broadway, New York
City. It paid $1.00 last year and
sells around $16.
largest manufacturers of shirts, for
both men and women, and of other
forms. of clothing such as pajamas,
neckwear, and sportswear. Head
office is at 444 Madison Avenue,
New York. Stock paid $1.85 last
year and sells around $37.
McCall Corp., one of the leading
publishers of fashion magazines;
also controls REDBOOK. It operates
a large dress-pattern business and
does a large amount of printing for
READER'S DIGEST, NEWSWEEK,
U.S. NEWS, etc. McCall should
benefit from a shorter work-week
for women. It paid $1.20 last year
and sells at about $21. .
American News Company, large
distributor of magazines, newspap-
ers, and paper-covered books. It has
valuable concessions at railroad,
airplane, and bus terminals, serving
tourists. Reading will increase with
the shorter work-week. Headquar-
ters are at 131 Varick Street, New
York City. It paid $1.50 last year
and sells at about $32.
The “Do-It-Yourself” Business
All companies catering to the
“do-it-yourself” trade should bene-
fit from the shorter work-week. I
especially have in mind the Ameri-
can Machine & Foundry Company,
261 Madison Avenue, New York
City, and the Black & Decker Manu-
facturing Company, of Towson,
Maryland. These have fitted up
many of the “tool rooms” which
have been built in the basements
of houses and farms. Furthermore,
American Machine & Foundry makes
bowling alley equipment and is be-
coming an important factor in
automation, guided missiles, and
atomic-energy reactor equipment.
Another group which should ben-
efit are companies which cater to
the painting of walls of homes with
rollers. My favorite corporation here
is the Glidden Company of Cleve-
land, but there are many others.
If you want to benefit from all
phases of the “do-it-yourself” move-
ment, buy the stocks of the United
Stores Corporation, having 460
stores retailing, at low prices, most
of these products. I especially rec-
ommend the 2nd pfd., at $10-$11,
and the common around $5.
ALTHOUGH THE STOCKS OF
THESE TEN COMPANIES SHOULD
OTHER COMPANIES DURING A
BUSINESS DEPRESSION, YET NO
STOCKS WILL THEN BE FOOL-
PROOF AS TO PRICE.
Manhattan Shirt Co., one of the
Ten and Twenty Years
From The Issue of March 22, 1946
Mr. and Mrs. John Malkemes,
Shavertown, receive details of the
death a year ago of their son Don-
ald, in a cross-roads skirmish with
the American infantry in Germany.
He was killed by US planes in a
strafing attack against the Germans.
King Smith, owned by Col. Nor-
man Smith, is out of the K-Nine
Corps, after serving for two years
as a scout dog.
Quarantine of dogs is to continue
for 180 days because of a threat
on order of Burgess George Wil-
liams.
Harveys Lake will have air serv-
ice this summer, operated by Smith
Brothers, based at Forty Fort air
| port.
Robert W. Lauderbaugh is dis-
charged from the service.
American Legion buys three lots,
on Memorial Highway.
Ago in The Dallas Pest !
Mrs. Arthur (Culver heads Dallas
Womans Club,
From The Issue of March 20, 1936
Worst floods in seventy years cut
off access to Wilkes-Barre.. On the
rampage for the second time in a
week, the Susquehanna has broken
all bounds. Power lines are down,
gas supplies cut off by rising water.
Kingston Corners is under six feet
of water. Harveys Lake boats are
used in rescue work, together with
Coast Guard cutters. x
.ICrop loans are ready for farmers.
Terrace and Claude Streets will
be improved by local labor.
Kingston Township millage rises
to 12, because of high cost of sno
removal.
Mrs. William Schindler, Dallas, re-
calls her girlhood in Holland when
the Zyder Zee broke through the
dikes and flooded Amsterdam in
1916, many residents were swept to
their death, and coffins floated in
the streets.
By AA MEMBER
People sometimes ask: “Can a
person with alcoholic tendencies be
spotted among a group of
drinkers?”
Not always, but the guy or gal
whose glass seems continually emp-
ty, and who loudly urges the others
to “drink up” is an obvious example.
More than likely, he had several be-
fore coming to the party, or gather-
ing. The drinks don’t come fast
squak ? You guessed it! !!
Travel to Cleveland, Detroit, Chi-
cago, etc. and see just one example
of what the Negro thinks of Ameri-
ca. Housing developments that were
built for the Negros after just 6
months are almost a shambles. No
care given to the dwelling whatso-
ever! Lawns gone to pot, windows
broken, doors half off hinges, etc.
I could go on and on. One should
know all the facts and both sides of
the story before coming out with a
caustic comment. We out here are
not bothered with the Negro prob-
lem. Would you want integration in
Dallas ? Think it over.
The public is most tolerant of
“Bob Tales,” so long as it sticks to
the usual drivel about his new
house, what his kids did or did not
say, etc., but there are limitations.
Why not divert some space to a
“Letters to the Editor” column or
something similar, and see what the
readers feel and think of some prob-
lems ?
If 99 out of every 100 don’t agree
100 per cent with what I have writ-
ten above, I'll eat my hat on Main
Street, Dallas. Some people have
told me that The Post could stand
some new features. Others welcome
it’s delivery on Friday—it makes for
wrapping the weekend garbage.
Yours very truly,
“OPENIZE” 5
Vv. T.Y. /
enough to satisfy his urgency to “get
high.” He is not being intentionally
vulgar, nor is he merely displaying
bad manners, It is not that simple.
This lad needs compassion, not
censure,
He is emotionally insecure; his
unrestrained drinking is ‘an effort
to blot out a feeling of inadequacy;
he lacks the moral and mental bal-
ance needed to comply with the
demands made upon him by society.
For him, the mental glow that alco-
hol furnishes is a blessed relief from
a gnawing sense of frustration.
However, once the alcohor wears
off, his neurotic condition still re-
mains and the inner phychological
pain is even more intense. Feelings
of guilt and remorse plague him
until he is driven to drink more
and more. Thus a vicious circle is
set up, and he is caught in a whirl-
pool of confusion and despair. As
time goes by, his physical, mental
and spiritual condition becomes
such that he just cannot adust him-
self unassisted. He needs under-
standing help—and badly!
I am not trying to convey the
impression that all alcoholics fit the
above category. Far from it. I hope
to make it clear that when one tries
to assist an alcoholic one must first
find out what it is that’s biting him
or her. In other words, one doesn’t
treat the alcoholism, but the under-
lying causes of the alcoholism. Get
your vietim’s disturbed personality
in balance and the need for the
soothing effects of alcohol is re-
moved. ‘Sounds simple, doesn’t it?
But don’t be too optimistic. Since
the time of Noah millions of words
have been written about ‘the cause
and treatment of this blight upon
human welfare, yet it is increasing.
In my final article I shall try to
sum up the steps necessary to re-
habilitate a chronic alcoholic. In the
meantime, let’s look at a different
By “BOB”
One of the strangest requests that
I've heard was made of Eva Ochs,
formerly of Kunkle, who works at
the Globe Store in Luzerne. A cus-
tomer bought two pairs of shoes,
but wouldn't take them with her
unless they were broken in first.
Consequently, Eva, who wears the
same size, finds herself wearing
someone's shoes for two weeks to
break them in. That's what I call
really bending over backwards to
serve a customer.
* * * -
A little fellow stopped in Evans
Drug Store the other day and when
he left the boys were having hys-
terics. The youngster changed a
nickel into five pennies so he could
weigh himself, and get his fortune
told. When this was completed he
put another penny in and said, “I'll
put this one in for my sister. After
putting in this second penny he got
off the scale and said, “That’s fun-
ny, she weighs the same as I do!”
x ¥ *
\
One of the ladies who has an ac-
count at a local bank was unable
to do her own banking so she sent
a messenger with a note asking to
have a check cashed and the money
sent to her in different size bills.
led the matter was confused by her
request. He measured the bills and
sent back a note saying that all
the bills were the same size. She
sent back the messenger with a note
saying, “If you can’t give me dif-
ferent size bills then send me those
with different pictures on them.”
* * ¥
If you have some spare time, and
some courage, and are a mother
who is interested in little boys, then
call James R. Shoop, of Cub Pack
281, Dallas Methodist Church. This
pack is desperately in need of an-
other Den Mother. ’
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Along with a Welsh copy of a
song sheet, Mrs. Arch Austin sends
me this note typewritten hastily:
Thanks for the Eisteddfodd ad,
It made many of us glad. .
My typewriter works quite well,
Perchance the bifocals I must sell!
‘With the enclosed sheet you might
try
The original “CWM RHONDDA”
to sing or cry!
% * *
....The unfortunate loss this week,
to the entertainment world, when
Fred Allen died, brings to mind a
story concerning the late comedian.
He was on the program for a writ-
er’s banquet in New York City and,
though writers and critics are dif-
ficult to talk to, Fred’s speech was
labeled the funniest and best hand-
led in the history of after-dinner
speakers. This was indeed an ac-
complishment . . . and the climax
of the evening, because the follow-
ing speaker was the virtually un-
known young governor from Illinois
—Adlai Stevenson. Stevefison got
to his feet and said, “When I came
into the lobby of the hotel this eve-
ning I saw Fred Allen standing over
in the corner with a worried expres-
sion on his face so I went over to
see what was the matter, and he
told me he was expected to give a
speech this evening and wasn’t pre-
pared. Feeling sorry for Fred, said
Adlai, “I gave him mine.” With
that he sat down. Pretty fast think-
ing for a young fellow, and it
brought down the house.
* * *
- “Winner this week of two free
tickets to the Himmler Theater is
Harold Kittle, of Trucksville R. D.
Your tickets are at The Dallas Post.
Come in and get them and enjoy a
show.
type of alcoholic.
This type of compulsive drinker
appears originally as a fairly well-
adjusted individual, He is generally
known as a good fellow, the effer-
vescent personality, bubbling over
with enthusiasm in his interests
and activities. He likes people, and
is constantly surrounded by admir-
ers who are delighted with his
company. His uninhibited nature is
distinctly different from the neur-
otic type, who is basically a self-
centered, selfish person. This type
could not be considered a neurotic
at the beginning of his drinking
career.
After drinking moderately for
years, a bad situation, loss of job,
or a family tragedy might be the
trigger that sets him off into un-
controlled drinking. Instead of try-
ing to solve his problem, he would
seek escape from it through alcohol.
Until now, his use of alcohol has
been casual—not for the relief of
anxiety or tension. Hence, his drink-
ing motives undergo. a serious
change. If he continues, his diffi-
culties will increase, and he will
finally resort to alcohol as a chief
means of escape. Eventually, this
will bring about complications in all
his affairs.
Now the vicious circle of events
begin to fall into a pattern similar
to that experienced by the neurotic
type drinker. Both types feel, look
and act alike as the symptoms of
advanced alcoholism develop.
I have briefly described two easily
identified personality types. But in-
dividuals vary, and so does the de-
gree of alcoholic addiction. We in
Alcoholics Anonymous use the terms
“high-bottom” and “low-bottom”
drunks. A high-bottom drunk sens-
ibly seeks aid before losing job,
home, social position, etc. A low-
bottom drunk loses all, descending
to some dismal skidrow before com-
ing to his senses,
§ Barnyard Notes
For many of us Sunday nights will be a little less bright and a
lot less fun because of the passing of Fred Allen of the “What's My
Line?” panel.
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Time Magazine reports that the current Gallup public opinion
poll indicates that Eisenhower would win with the greatest landslide
in American history if the election were held today!
Sir
We're convinced that we must follow the footsteps of those eight
Kunkle young men who spent last week end at their cabins in Potter
County.
From their accounts, Potter County must be one of the most
interesting spots in the State. One of the reasons for their visit was
to look over their cabins, some of which have to be moved higher up
the rugged hillside out of the path of the impounded waters of the
great new flood control dam on Sinnemahoning Creek.
The area abounds with excellent fishing and a variety of game.
What one of the boys thought were the bright eyes of a raccoon in
his flashlight’s beam, turned out on closer investigation to be those
of a bear. That's the kind of a country it is. A place to visit in an
open car — come spring! Its even more rugged than the Wellsboro
country.
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Somebody must have the answer. I haven’t. How do you keep
hens from eating their eggs once they've acquired the habit? I
thought there was only one bad actor among our flock, but when I
penned her up, I still found egg shells in the nests. Two more are
now? her companions in prison and one New Hampshire Red has
found her way into our roasting oven; but still eggs disappear and
eggshells are in the nests. I'm almost convinced that there isn’t one
of our fifteen hens but will eat eggs! (They have plenty of-oyster
shells and grit before them all the time.)
ea
A lot of people think the birds are fooled by the weather. They're
not. Listen any morning to their songs. Even in the midst of last
weekend's heavy snows, their songs were songs of spring. There
wasn’t a winter note in them!
—l)
Rogue has shifted so long for himself, that he has little regard
for discipline. Since he usually has good dog sense, there are few
times when his will and his master’s come in conflict and, therefore,
few occasions for a clear cut test of “who’s the boss?”
Tuesday morning I was late with the chores. Instead of feeding
him as usual in the cellar, I decided to wait until I was ready to leave
for work and set his dish down just outside the cellar door. There he
could eat at his usual leisurely pace—he is the slowest eating dog the
Lord ever meade, never bolting his meals or snatching at a feeding
hand. In the meantime I could go on to work instead of waiting to~
let him out as I would have to do if I fed him in the cellar!
I could see that he wasn’t too well satisfied with the arrange-
ment and considered it an affront—that I should put him in a spot
where he would either have to gobble his breakfast or give up going
“You can take it or leave it”, I said, “but you'd better eat now
and come over to The Post later.”
Then I hurried out the path without further thought of the sullen
Rogue mincing at his food on the thot house steps!
I had barely reached the front porch at The Post when Ray
Hedden stopped to pick up some printing. I unlocked the door and
turned to hand him the packages that were on the counter. As I did
along with his breakfast dish between his teeth. He set it down
gently on the floor—and began the morning meal.
From
Pillar To
: by Msgs. T. MB. Hicks /
The advent of the twentieth grandchild should probably elassify
as some sort of a milestone, a large and shining shaft to mark the
termination of a path bristling with smaller and more modest mark-
ers. Actually, Colin Stuart’s arrival, coming as it did on press day,
There was a time, twelve years ago, when his squalling entrance into
a breathless world would have carried the impact of an earthquake.
A person becomes accustomed to the periodic announcement,
phrased apologetically over the phone: “Well, you might have known
it—it’s another boy.’ Can’t seem to manage a girl, somehow.”
It is like that imperceptible slipping from the age of fifty-five
to sixty, and beyond, in easy stages, practically over night.
All of a sudden, here is another grandchild, chubby and pink
cheeked, curling of eyelash, crowned with a soft blonde fuzz, peering
through amazed blue eyes at a strange world and hoping that it is
densely populated with adults who will bring relays of warm bottles,
dry diapers, and kindred creature comforts. And of course, a boy.
Other families seem to manage girls Some even have an over-
supply of girls. They burn incense to the fates and pray for boys.
You'd think the law of averages would do something about it,
but the fact remains that some families run strongly to girls, and
some to boys. I have a cousin who was determined to produce a girl
a girl. Easier that way, she stated with finality. Why buck fate?
Charlie and Persis now have boys enough for a basketball team,
and one cheer leader. | r : A
In the immediate family connection there are fourteen boys and
six girls.
Households are overrun with tops and marbles and dogs and
battered bikes, with dolls taking a back seat. Snowed under by the
strong for dungarees, sneakers, and sport shirts.
On Sunddys they blossom out in the garments of their sex, dis-
guised briefly as little girls, before reverting comfortably to blue
jeans.
It should surprise nobody that they lick their brethren in the
flying of kites and the shooting of marbles. Girls, being behind the
eight-ball in this man’s world, have to prove their prowess.
: You've got to be better than good to keep your nose above water
in a houseful of chattering boys, or retreat into helpless tears. Sur-
“Mamma, he’s picking on me,” is usually answered by the ab-
stracted, “Settle your own quarrels. You've got what it takea®
The fur flies briefly, and harmony is restored.
That’s the advantage of a large family. Nobody regards a family
scrap as a production or a career. The kids have to get along with
each other on the principle that in union there is strength. Tempera-
mental outbursts get short shrift. If you want! to have fun, you co-
operate. If you want to sulk, go off and do it in your own room
where nobody else is exposed to the gloom.
a marvelous preparation for the heady competition of an adult
worl
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Poet's Corner
Newly elected officers of Dallas
Rotary Club to begin their duties
on July 1 are: Francis Ambrose,
president; Dr. L. E. Jordan, vice
president; Harold Titman, treasurer,
and Leslie Warhola, secretary.
Newly elected directors are Ar-
thur Ross, four years: Dale Parry,
one year. Other directors: whose
terms did not expire are: Harry L.
Smith and Dr. Robert Bodycomb.
Assistant Agent
Thomas B. Jurchak, a native of
Jefferson County and a graduate of
Pennsylvania State University
School of Agriculture in 1952, has
assumed his new duties as assistant
Luzerne County Farm Agent.
“oe
If ‘Man Would Learn
If man would learn to live by God,
Then there would be no need
For war—for guns, for bombs and
such f ¢
For strife, and hate and greed.
If only man would realize
With what triumphant glee,
The devil looks upon these things
His work; it’s plain to see.
Why does man make it, oh so hard
From sin to find release? .
When, if we'd all just seek God’s
way ;
We'd find our earthly peace.
: Edna Drabick Johnson
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