emo au wena ae re a REA rrr er Pr SECTION B—PAGE 2 THE DALLAS POST ESTABLISHED 1889 ”»” “More than a newspaper, a community institution Member Pennsylvania Newspaper Publishers’ Association A non-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 3, 1879. Subscription rates: $4.00 a ~ year; $2.50 six months. No subscriptions accepted for less than six months. Out-of-state subscriptions: $4.50 a year; $2.75 six months or less. Back issues, more than one week old, 15¢. When requesting a change of address subscribers are asked to give their old as well as new address. Allow two weeks for changes of address or new subscription to be placed on mailing list. 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Advertising copy received after Tuesday 5 P.M. will be charged at 85¢ per column inch. Classified rates 4c per word. Minimum charge 85c. ads 10¢ additional. Unless paid for e* advertising rates, wz can give no assurance that announcements ot plays, parties, rummage sales or any affair tor raising money will appear in a specific issue. Preference will in all instances be given to editorial matter which has not previously appeared in publication. Editor and Publisher—HOWARD W. RISLEY Associate Publisher—ROBERT F. BACHMAN Associate Editors—MYRA ZEISER RISLEY, MRS. T. M. B. HICKS Advertising—LOUISE C. MARKS Photographer—JAMES KOZEMCHAK photographs and editorial matter unless self - addressed, Editorially Speaking: FOR ALL WHO CARE The annual “For God and Country’ telecast of The American Legion reminds all Americans — with especial force, this year—of the most vital issue of twenty cen- turies. As we stand at the crossroads of history, and in the gathering storm that must resolve whether this world is to be Godfearing or anti-God, the world’s largest body of veteran fighting men asks us to stand up and be counted. It commands us to recall that from its faltering beginnings on the precarious edge of a wild man’s wilderness, the strength of this nation has flowed from God and been manifest in freedom of worship and respect for faith. Against the shocking background of the recent visit of Anastas Mikovar- the arch-spy who directed the theft of U.S. atomic secrets, and the assassin of the victorious Hungarian freedom- fighters—and the hospitality extended . by Americans of prominence, we quote from the supplica- tion of the Right Reverend Monsignor John J. Twiss, na- tional chaplain of The Legion: “Remind us, Lord God, of the pressing need today of re-emphasizing, rather than shying away from, the word ‘loyalty’. “Warn us that the recent decline of this concept of loyalty can undermine the foundation of a free America— the family and the home—unless we return to those values and virtues that claimed the uncompromising allegiance of those who founded this nation and made the struggle for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness irresistible and undeniable. “Above all, help us to be passionately loyal to America and OUR way of life. Make us nonpartisan in our choice of programs and policies for the service of the nation. Lord, may we always ask: ‘What will best serve America as God wills that America be served?’.” Spiritually, the nation endures again the discourage- ment of Valley Forge. And Americans may seek today, as*General Washington sought then, the strength of Divine Guidance—or they may flee to the temporary warmth of indifference and expediency. This is the critically timely message of The American Legion. SAFETY VALVE ALL IS NOT GOLD Dear Editor: May I express my appreciation to the editors of the Dallas Post for the policy of presenting the truth, whether or not it is popular truth. I am referring in particular to an article published recently in the “Post” entitled, “Liquor Tax Proves Once Again, ‘All That Glitters Is Not Gold.” In this article the American Busi- ness Men’s Research Foundation stated three things that I would like to underscore. 1. “Viewing liquor tax collections as important contri- butions toward the public welfare is a fallacy” i.e., an untruth. 2. “For each $773 received in 1957 in local beverage taxes, one local citizen was killed in an accident involving alco- hol’s use.” And 3. “Police costs, jail costs, absenteeism, alcoholism, and scores of other charges against the local community are many times the tax revenue received.” ; Since the Foundation further stat- ed that the “tax consideration is not important enough to carry weight, “I would suggest that this article be reprinted the next time the liquor question comes to the polls. I take my hat off to you. It is such articles as this that make the Dallas Post more than a newspaper, but a community institution. Thank you. Rev. Grove Armstrong Trucksville Free Methodist Church, January 20, 1959 Since 1940, per acre yield of corn in the U.S. has risen 56 percent, wheat 40 percent and cotton 67 percent. OLD CANAL BOATS Dear Editor: I sent a clipping captioned: “Last Boat Went Down'Old Canal Fifty- Eight Years Ago” from the Novem- ber 18, 1958, issue of The Dallas Post to Samuel V. Keeler of Potts- ville. The following is a ‘copy of his reply. The Eli Keeler mentioned was the grandfather of Milton E. Keeler of Trucksville and cousin of Samuel V. Keeler of Pottsville. Yours truly, Mrs. Milton E. Keeler, Trucksville, Pa. Mr. Keeler’s Reply The canal referred to in the oip- ping is the one we were talking about on our last visit with you. Grandfather Eli Keeler had a number of boats he operated over this canal. He would secure a load of coal at Nanticoke or Wilkes-Barre and take it over the following route to New York City. Pennsylvania Canal, Wilkes-Barre to Havre De Grace, Md. At that point he would secure the service of a tug-boat and move his boats through the Chesapeake Bay to a canal which led from some point on the eastern shore of the bay across Maryland and Delaware to the Delaware Bay. He moved his canal boats through this canal by horse or mule power. Again he would hire a tug boat to move through Delaware Bay and up the Delaware River to a point in the vicinity of Trenton, N. J, where he would cross the state of New Jersey via another canal to FATAL AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENTS AND INJURIES SINCE JANUARY 1, 19587 Hospitalized Killed Dallas 11 of Dallas Twp-. |. 8. | 3 | Franklin Twp. ea fake - . 7 3.9 4d Lehman Twp. | 3 {| | Kingston Twp. Tv | TH Monroe ag lei Nozxen | Ross I 1 3 “Total Fad | 147) EMERGENCY PHONE NUMBERS Ambulance .....o............. 4-2121 TING .....cccvienenniibimemrianiasosias 4.2121 State Police .......... .. BU 7-2185 Looking at 1-V With GEORGE A. and EDITH ANN BURKE Award Time—The coveted Syl- vania Television Awards were pre- sented in New York last evening, and not only do we have no quarrel with the judges’ choice . .. we think they're excellent. It was a natural for “Little Moon of Alban,” Hallmark Hall of Fame’s superb drama, to walk off with the four major citations. And it marked the first time in the eight-year history of the awards that a single program carried off so many honors. “Little Moon,” a 90-minute spe- cial presented last March on NBC- TV, was the story of a young girl’s quest for religious faith after having watched her sweetheart gunned down by the British. The play was set in Dublin in the time of the Irish Rebellion of 1916-21. It was one of those un- forgettable offerings that make up for so much of the poor programing on TV. Julie Harris, star of ‘Little Moon,” won the citation for the “outstanding performance by an actress in a starring role. The outstanding children’s pro- gram, surprisingly, was ABC-TV’s “Art Carney Meets Peter and the Wolf.” NBC-TV’s “Continental Classroom,” a new entry last fall, was named “outstanding public ser- vice series,” and CBS-TV's ‘“‘Twen- tieth Century,” the ‘outstanding documentary series.” “An Evening With Fred Astaire,” was chosen the outstanding light musical program. If you missed this program, which had an air of distinctive elegance, polish and taste it will be repeated next month. Bob Hope's filmed visit to Mos- cow was chosen as the “outstand- ing variety program,” which left. Ed Sullivan and his Moisyev Dancers where ?. Leonard Bernstein was honored for his programs on two networks with an award for his “outstanding contribution to serious music on television.” Bonnie Prudden is back on the “Today” program every Thursday with a new series of physical edu- cation features. The exercises are designed for people of all ages. Bonnie, who had a regular feat- ured spot on “Today” once each week for the past two years, was absent from the program since last October due to other commitments. One of these commitments includ- ed serving on President Eisenhow- er’s Citizens Advisory Council on Physical Fitness of American Youth. Bonnie is the youthful mother of two girls, and is the author of two books on physical fitness. Dagmar—It will be a “new,” slim, trim Dagmar on “Person to Person” Friday night—she’s 30 pounds light- er, having lost all that weight in just three months. She says she did it by eating foods she had never eaten before: raw fruits, green vegetables, lean meat, black coffee and skim milk. Wonder what little Dagmar, who used to be on the “Mama” show, is doing these days? Church Music—a special series of programs tracing the history of re- ligious music in America is being presented on “Look Up and Live” during the month of February. The initial program, Sunday, offers a cross-section of hymns sung in America since Colonial times, from “O Come, O Come, Emmanuel” to “lI Believe.” (CBS-TV, Sunday, 10:30-11 a. m.) Moiseyev Dancers—Ed Sullivan will rerun his June 58 show star- ring the Russian dancers Sunday night. Japan’s Top Entertainers, thirteen in number, will be presented on the “Chevy Show” Sunday evening. {Shirley MacLaine will be the hos- tess, with Louis Jourdan as special guest. The Japanese entertainers and acts were chosen in a six-mouth talent. search by Miss MacLaine’s producer-husband, Steve Parker. New York Harbor. There he would again employ tug boats to move them to an unloading point in the harbor. He would secure a load of mer- chandise at New York, returning via the same route. Sometimes he would only go as far as Philadel- phia. I have a map dated 1843 which shows a canal along the north branch of the Susquehanna River as far north as Athens, Pa. or THE DALLAS POST, FRIDAY, JANUARY SUCCESSFUL INVESTING... by ROGER E. SPEAR Investment Advisor and Analyst THIS WEEK’S QUESTIONS COVER A WIDE VARIETY OF INVESTMENT INTEREST Q. From Dallas, Pennsylvania, by way of Florida, comes this question. “Inasmuch as Texas Instruments has had a very sharp rise, has shown some signs of weakness recently and is selling at a very high price in terms of earnings; would you recom- mend selling, holding or buying more? Are you personally connected with the firm in Wellesley Hills, called Spear & Company ?”’ A. I think Texas Instruments will earn at least $2 this year, maybe more. This means the stock is selling for around 35 times earnings, a high ratio by orthodox standards. I don’t think, however, that you can judge Texas Instruments by any such standards. Since last summer, the electronics stocks have been ac- cumulating because they have gla- mour and Texas has more color than most, and rising earnings as well. B I don’t know your stock list or your objectives. From a speculative standpoint, in a strong bull market such as we have been having, I would rather buy than sell this stock on weakness. If I had bought it around 25 when it was first re- commended here, I believe it would be prudent to consolidate half my profits, and mark down the balance tof my holdings. This would be the | conservative financial policy to pur- ‘sue. In a general way, I don’t think this bull market is over and I don’t think the romance stocks are through, although they may have to consolidate for a time, after their long sharp rise. As to your second question, the answer is yes, with a correction or two. I am connected with Spear & Staff of Babson Park, which is a postal sub division of Wellesley Hills. As a mater of fact, I'm pres- ident of that company, which among other activities, publishes the Spear Market Letter. : Q. From Indiana, M. writes “As a $500 investment for my boy's ed- ucation—who is now 6 years old— would one share of International Business Machines be satisfactory ? What is your recommendation on Trans Continental Industries at 3, Guild Films at 2% and Stanrock at 27 A. I like IBM as a long-term growth investment. Over the next 10 years, judging by past history and per- formance, I think it is a sound in- vestment for the purpose you out- lined. I would not buy the three speculative = stocks you mention. Trans Continental is now down to 1% and Stanrock sells around 1.60. These stocks have acted poorly. If you already own them, I would hold Trans [Continental in the hope of working out something from the present depresssed level. I would sell the other two. The outlook for all three is not very encouraging. Switch Libby Into Spencer Shoe Q. Again from Indiana. Mrs. S. asks “Would it pay me to sell Libby, McNeill & Libby and buy Spencer Shoe? I also have Curtiss-Wright, Southern (Co. and Ohio Edison. What do you think of them ?” A. A switch from Libby into Spen- cer Shoe would reduce your income a little. Libby pays 40 cents an- nually, and may pay more this year, if earnings go up as I expect they will. [Spencer Shoe pays only 10 cents annually. From the standpoint of growth and appreciation, T would advise you to make the switch. Libby is in a low profit-margin busi- ness and earnings have fluctuated widely. Spencer, I believe, is in a position to develop into a bigger and stronger company following ac- quisition of the R. P. Hazzard Co. Curtiss-Wright is a speculation on the ability of able president R. T. Hurley to re-establish earning power. The stock is worth holding as a speculation if you can afford some risk. The utilities you mention are sound stocks and I would most certainly hold them. Q. From Kentucky, Mrs. S. wrotes “I am enclosing a list of securities I hold and would appreciate your opinion. IT have a substantial savings account. Would it be wise to use my dividends to buy growth stocks?” A. You have a generally fine list of stocks. You are a little heavy in utilities. Your holdings in this group, however, are strong and growing and I would not disturb them. See my comments on Curtiss-Wright above. This stock looks a little out of place in your conservative list. If you can afford some reduction in present income, I would switch Tex- tron Pfd. into Corn Products Com- mon. There is little chance for av- preciation in the former and it could sell lower if money rates go up, as I think they will. Corn Products. as a result of its merger with Best Foods, is the second largest com- ponent in the food packaging field. 1 like this stock as a conservative growth holding and believe it wonld fit very well into your list. The answer to your final question is, yes. (Send your investment questions to Mr. Rodger E. Spear, c-o this paper.) rather the New Work State line. Perhaps it went into New York State. I well remember seeing canal boats operating in the vicinity of about 1900. Samuel V. Radler, Pottsville, Pa. 10% Discount on Printing during February Selinsgrove and Shamokin Dam, 30,1959 Rampling Around THE CLLTIER Daniel Waters Once upon a time it fell, Down in Kunkle, Hanky Randall drilled a well, Down in Kunkle. Hanky was a wise old soul, So he winked his eye and smole, Said he thought he smelled some coal,— Down in Kunkle. Then the people all went wild, Down in Kunkle. : Farming land you couldn’t buy, Down in Kunkle . . . And on and on through a long series of eight-line stanzas, the sec- ond, fourth and last line of each reading “Down’ ‘in Kunkle,” the poem told the whole story of the excitement prevailing, how land owners pooled their money and brought in professional coal drillers, how they watched with acute in- terest when foot after foot of core showed only rock with an occasional small spot of coal, none in quantity to be mined, how they finally had to give up at about the time a prac- tical joker let out that he had salt- ed the Randall well with a scuttle : of kitchen anthracite. It ended: And there is no joy today, ~ Down in Kunkle. The above is all that the writer can rememberr at this time of the poem published in the Post forty- five or fifty years ago. It carried the signature of L. B. Avery of Al- derson, long time regular contribu- tor to the Post. Coming right after the greatest disappointment of their lives, it is needless to say that the poem was not popular with Kunkle residents... In fact for a short time the author was decidedly unpopular there. This did not last and after a few years his daughter, Iris, was a primary teacher in Kunkle school, very capable and very well liked. Incidentally the writer saw some qf the core some years later at which time the ill feeling had com- pletely disappeared. ONLY YESTERDAY Ten and Twenty Years Ago In The Dallas Post From the Issue of January 28, 1949 Rev. Frederick W. Moock Jr. will | be installed as pastor at St. Paul's Lutheran Church on Sunday, Dr. Emil E. Fisher, president of the Lutheran Ministerium of Pennsyl- vania, presiding. Rev. Moock, with a long record of business success be- hind him, decided to become a min- ister in 1946. This is his first pastor- ate, though he was active in estab- lishing a mission church in Phila- delphia before studying for the min- istry. Lawrence B. Hilbert has purchas- ed Iva’s Restaurant on route 309. He expects to do considerable re- modelling, with installation of new equipment. Hillside Milking Shorthorns won fourteen ribbons at the Farm Show. Eight animals were shown by Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Conyngham, Guthrie Conyngham, and Charles Hemen- way, farm manager, assisted by Warren Sutton. Hillside started 25 years ago with select cattle known as the Old Orchard Farm herd, An- derson Jerome is the nationally fam- ous herd sire. Eight local fire companies gath- Club, Dr. Henry M. Laing firemen serving as hosts to 98 members. Harry Ohlman, president of Dr. Henry M. Laing, was toastmaster; James Besecker, fire chief, intro- duced visiting chiefs: Francis Mec- Carthy, Trucksville; Fred Swanson. Harveys Lake; Howard Woolbert, Shavertown; Lanceford Sutton, Leh- man; Sherman Kunkle, Sweet Val- ley; Dennis Bonning, Jackson. Charles Gregory, in the clothing business for the past 25 years, sold his entire stock this week to a Scranton jobber. Joe Hand bought the store fixtures. Mr. Gregory will move his barber shop to the front of the building, and Mr. Bowman will expand his restaurant into space formerly occupied by the store, It is only fair to say ‘that the poem was not a fair sample of the regular writing of Avery most of | « which was of everyday happenings around the Lake with occasional ref- erences to nature and people in an entirely non-controversial manner, as might have been expected of the man. # Lorenzo Byron Avery was a phys- ician by training but practiced very Ilittle if any in this vicinity. He had drug stores in Center More- lanw, Avoca and Noxen before building a new building at Alder- son and opening a drug store there just before the turn of the century. He had also a general store and called it that, instead of the present practice of making a drug store a general store and still calling it'a drug store. He was commonly re- ferred to as Doc. Avery or Byron. He was a studious man, well read about almost anything and a very popular and useful citizen of the lake. - He died over thirty years ago. ; In Avery's later years there lived between Alderson and Kunkle an- other outstanding educated man variously referred to as Doc. or Reverend Harris. There are so many Harris families in this area that the writer is not sure of his first name but believes he signed his name H. H. Harris. He was a justice of the peace and had some knowledge of the law. He filled in as a supply preacher on short notice. He had some knowledge of medi- cine and was called Doc., but this may not have been a medical title. His library was so extensive that it had to be taken: out of the house and housed upstairs in an out- building. He was the father of several school teachers, one of whom, Mir- iam Harris, was a teacher at Kun- kle. She became the wife of Dr. J. C. Fleming and was the mother of Attorney Robert Fleming. Quarterly Conference Is Held At Alderson Fourth Quarterly Conference of Alderson-Noxen Circuit was held in the form of a covered dish supper at the church on Thursday night. Rev. L. W. Bouton presided. Ex- cellent reports of the church and the church school were, given by representatives from Noxen, Rug- gles, Kunkle and Alderson. Rev. John Gordon gave his annual report. Attending were Mr. and Mrs. Franklin Patton, Mrs. Marie Mac- Millan, Mr. and Mrs. Vane Race, Noxen; E. R. Kerlin, Kunkle; Mrs. Albert Armitage, Mr. and Mrs. Gil- bert Carpenter, Mr. a®d Mrs. Ray- mond Garinger, Mr. and Mrs. Clar- ence Kester, Mr. and Mrs. Walbridge Leinthall, Mrs. Raymond Grey, Mrs. Howard Higgins, William Kelley, Mrs. Stephen Hartman, Mrs. Harry Allen, Mrs. Amos Hunsinger, Mrs. ‘Charles - White, Mrs. Viola Scott, Mrs. Garvin Smith, Eleanor Hum- phrey, Alderson; Mrs. George Dend- ler, Mrs. Beulah Bronson, Mrs. Wil- liam Harrison, Mrs. Clarence Oberst and Mrs. Mina Harrison, Ruggles. And I Quote . . . Hot heads and cold hearts never solved anything. Genius is the ability to evade work by doing something right the first time it has to be done. A rumor is about as hard to un- creating a semi-private dining room. E. H. MacPherson will be employed by Bowman's restaurant, and Mr. Gregory will have with him in the barber shop Sarga Toni of Parsons, who has been with him since dis- charge from the service. Harry B. Schooley, Jr. of Orange, and Robert: Fleming, Dallas, have made application for admission to the bar. A. J. Sordoni has purchased a tract of land on Lake Street from A. C. Devens, on which will be con- structed the new Commonwealth Telephone building originally plan- ned for Church Street. Management offices will be moved from Forty Fort to Dallas. Harold G. Payne, Harveys Lake, has been made vice president and general manager of Commonwealth Telephone Company. Mrs. Clyde Cooper was installed president of Kiwanis Women at the regular January dinner meeting. From the Issue of January 27, 1929 Sub-zero weather is here, with fifteen inches of snow coming down during the past two weeks. The ice ‘harvest is about to begin at Moun- tain Springs, where ice is now 14 inches thick. Seventy men will be employed as cutting gets under way for shipment through Dallas to Wilkes-Barre. ; Ice at Harveys Lake is eight inch- es thick, at Burt Bryant's pond eleven to twelve. Folks are getting out the old cut- ters from the carriage house. Teams owned by Cliff Space and Sterling Machell are attracting a lot of attention. An old manuscript poem is print- ed, telling in stilted language the tale of a hunter who went forth to kill deer in 1837, and died in the woods when separated from his companions. When he was discover- ed after sixty inches of snow melted, foul play was suspected, because his gun could not be located. Not until 1902, when lumbermen from Love Brothers found the buried gun bar- rel lying near where the body of James Jones had been discovered sitting against a tree, was suspicion allayed. Samuel Eggleston, Vernon, purchased the gun barrel for a sou- venir. John C. Wilson, 86, passed away at his home at Hays Corner. He was born in a log cabin, son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Wilson. For forty years he served as Dallas Township con- stable. Inventory of Dallas school district shows assets of $110,000." A leak in the boiler at Lehman gave Lehman students a holiday last Friday. Singers from Dallas Free Metho- dist Church broadcast for (fifteen minutes every Sunday morning over radio station WBRE. Rev. John Howard has been getting compli- ments on this project, which has now lasted fourteen months. Clark Patton, 30, Noxen, escaped injury when his truck overturned on the Lake-Noxen road. Virginia Ferry suffered laceration of the face while coasting on Ma- chell Avenue. She struck a post at the bottom of the hill. Corey Schooley, 62, of Noxen, was injured at Kunkle in a traffic ac- cident, sustaining deep lacerations under the chin and a fractured kneecap. He was treated at the of- fice of his nephew, Dr. Budd Schooley. Boy Scouts are forming troops’at Noxen and Harveys Lake, under leadership of Albert Buff and Clif- spread as butter. ford Booth. ered at a dinner at Irem Country ! r DALLAS, PENNSYLVANIA § Barnyard N otes It's coming about that season when Civil War fans fight their biggest battles around winter firesides in animated conversation with old cronies, or study strategy curled around a favorite biography in a friendly chair. ; : This is the preparation of fireside generals for spring invasions— hit and run raids—into the Southland where trumpet vines blaze along the red Virginia roadsides, and clusters of wisteria festoon the tallest pines of tidewater Carolina. \ 4 Late March, about the time of the northern winter's breakup, is the time for a Civil War dad and his cubs to hit the open road South. The long weckend of the Easter recess is ideal. (March 29) No dyed-in-the-wool Civil warrior can ever travel the route with- out living in a world apart from speeding traffic and hot dog stands. And he never takes the shortest one! - From Adams County and the southern border of Pennsylvania, through Maryland, Virginia and the Carolinas—his world is peopled with grey clad troops pressing forward over dusty roads. At Gettysburg he helps Ricketts’. 1 @ Battery repulse the wildly fighting Louisiana Tigers; on the road to Williamsport he overtakes the wagons of the retreating Lee. And from Winchester the foot cavalry of Jackson marches with him up the Valley. If he takes an eastern route, he watches blockade runners unload their British cargoes at Wilmington and other coastal ports. Place names recall the ebb and flow of war—the blunders of the great, the heroism of the ranks. He bogs in mud at Fredericksburg beside Burnside’s pontoons. At Yellow Tavern, he watches Jeb Stuart's last fight and at Petersburg, Pennsylvania miners preparing to blow up the rebel lines. / We were reminded of all this, when our good friend and Civil warrior, Ray Shiber, stopped in on the stormiest day of the year to tell us that he had just had an encounter in Gettysburg with Charlie Weaver of the Jack Paar Show. It seems that Charlie is as much of a bug on the War Between the States as Ray, and has his own private museum in his home which is located on the Battlefield. Ray was attending an antique sale when he ran into Charlie. We were reminded, too, when Dorothea Flack dropped a sheaf of neatly typed papers on our desk: the day to day diary, from October 1, 1861 to Friday, September 23, 1864, of “George W. Flack mustred in to servis of the united states on the 19 day of September the year of our lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty one at nice town, phila. co.’ i He was the grandfather of Dr. Gods W. Flack and fought with the Eighth Pennsylvania Cavalry through the Peninsula and Wilder- ness campaigns to the siege of Petersburg where he was dishonorably discharged for allowing a Confederate prisoner to go home to see his mother. Yes, this is the season when Civil War fans fight their biggest E battles! Ralph Hazeltine dropped by to remind us that the third annual lecture series of Wyoming Historical and Geological Society will be devoted to Wyoming Valley and the Civil War. It will start February 23 with “Camp Luzerne Recruits for Civil ar’ by Richmond D. Williams, director of the society. On March 23, “Civil War Fact and Fancy” will be: an informal roundtable discussion by a panel of Civil War enthusiasts, all Back Mountaineers: J. Archibald Brooks, Ray Shiber, Ralph Hazeltine, J. F. Sallada and Howard Risley. On April 23 “The War and the Anthracite Industry” will be dis- cussed by James Corrigan, newspaperman and writer on the anthra- cite industry. On May 25, Dr. Edwin B. Coddington, professor of history Lafayette College, and author of a forthcoming book on the Battle of Gettysburg will speak on “Wyoming Valley Troops at Gettysburg.” Yep, this is the season when Rebel yells resound around the fire- sides—and wise dads map spring campaigns to Gettysburg with their Cubs! + From | v Pillar To Post By MRS. T. M. B. HICKS, JR. The notes started to cool off on the desk after the latest tele- phone conversation. There was a stack of them, each less intelligible then the last. It is fatal to let notes cool off . . . they're apt to jell. An hour after a few strokes of the black copy pencil have im- '‘mortalized a ham supper at Loyalville or a coming session of the PTA, the items suggest nothing under the shining sun except chicken tracks. The only safe thing is to get them typed up at once, while ham still looks like ham, and not him or home. These mental sub- stitutes are apt to throw one completely off the track. Did somebody from Loyalville go home, or is the Ladies Aid Planning a ham supper ? The notes accumulated Monday morning. The phone rang again, and a delightfully alert elderly woman was on the wire. “I see by the Times-Leader,” she said, “that you are going to teach a class in penmanship at the YWCA. I think this. Penmanship is SO neglected these days.” is absolutely marvelous. x Children get clear through high school before they learn to write, and. «_ even then, who can read it?” Who indeed ?, I asked myself in a daze, looking at the stack of notes but still listening to the sounds issuing from the receiver. I felt like the very homely man in a famous anecdote, who leaned ° an incredulous ear to .the woman who was handing him a laurel wreath for achievement. “I want you to know,” she concluded, “that the women of this association believe not only in your outstanding worth and integrity, but are glad to tell you that you are one of the handsomest men who have ever come to this community.” The recipient of the wreath turned it about in his hands, then looked shyly at the donor. ‘“Ma’am, he blurted, “I know it’s a lie, but say it again. It sounded wonderful.” That’s the way I felt on Monday. It sounded wonderful, and after all, why disillusion the lovely lady by telling her that it was a Writer's Round Table, preferably developed on the typewriter ? Horace Greeley probably set the style for indecipherable writing, away back when. A long-suffering copy reader took measures. He caught a wandering hen, dipped its feet in ink, and turned it loose on a sheet of copy paper. He took the result to the type-setter. “Editorial from Mr. Gree- ley,” he said casually, dropping the sheet of copy paper, and making tracks back to his desk. The type-setter worked methodically, selecting low and upper case type as the copy seemed to demand, puzzling over one or two words. but following Mr. Greeley’s style in editorials and inserting an additional word or two in order to clarify the text. But one hen track eluded him. He turned the paper upside down, hoping it would jump at him. Defeated, he heaved a deep sigh. and sought Mr. Greeley in his sanctum, copy in hand. “Just this one word, Mr. Greeley,” he plead, “I’ve got all the rest of #.°Y Mr. Greeley glanced at the paper. ’ “That word's ‘unconstitutional,’ you dumb fool,” he grunted. . 2 " This Winter Afternoon “Come away, come away”, cries the wind. Hear it call in the dusk, whirl and speed From the hill leaping laurel and ledge, Circling fernstalk and weed. 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