Dartmouth beat Rice on the SECTION A — PAGE 2 THE DALLAS POST Established 1889 “More Than A Newspaper, A Community Institution Now In Its 70th Year” oils, Member Audit Bureau of Cireulations < C) Member Pennsylvania Newspaper Publishers Association ° 2 National Editorial Association tera A mon-partisan, liberal progressive mewspaper pub- lished every Thursday 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. six months. No subscriptions accepted for less than Out-of-State subscriptions: $4.50 a year; $2.75 six months or less. Back issues, more than one week old, 15¢c. 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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DORIS MALLIN Editorially Speaking: THE SHRINKING DOLLAR The Chamber of Commerce of the United States reports that the American dollar is worth less today than at any © time in history. ~ During the current century alone, now just started on its sixtieth year, the purchasing power of that dollar has dropped from 100 cents to 29 cents — a loss of almost three quarters. And the value of savings, pensions and insurance has dropped accordingly — as great numbers of people who must live in whole or in part on fixed 'in- comes have learned the hard way. We can’t change what has happened in the past. But we can learn from it, and make an honest effort to keep the dollar’s worth from sliding still further down the hill. For instance, the Chamber calls upon Congress, in the current session, to keep the highway program on a pay- as-you-go basis; to oppose inflationary increases in the minimum wage; to remove artificial restrictions on the interest rate of government bonds; to avoid wasteful de- fense spending; and to eliminate unnecessary spending for public works, depressed veterans’ benefits, and airport construction. areas, community facilities, This call is based on the inescapable fact that the greatest single - force back of inflation is drunken-sailor federal spending. The Chamber also seeks to reduce monopolistic labor power, which is another important source of inflationary ~ pressure. i Naturally enough, there will be wide difference of opinion over the details of such a program. But, those aside, something drastic must be done, and done ‘soon, i the dollar’s worth does not become 15 cents, 10 cents, 5 cents and, ultimately, zero. Safety .. A CHEER FOR DARTMOUTH Dear Howard: Mary and I have just watched IG. E. College Bowl. After two success- ful weeks they have a tough oppon- ent next, in Williams. The television program this after- noon reminded me that I wanted to call your attention to the impres- sive list of Dartmouth Alumni in the recent Olympics at Squaw Val- ley. The competitors included Tom Corcoran ’53 and Chick Igaya ’57, for Japan; also Betsy Snite, daught- . er of Al .Snite ’32 of Norwich, Vt. - 2nd. place slalom winner; and Joan Hannah, daughter of Sel Han- nah ’35 of Franconia, N.H. The Olympics have been directed in planning and execution by many alumni, headed by Malcolm Mec- Lane ’46, chairman of the U.S. Olympic’'s Ski Games Committee; Dave Bradley ’38, manager of the U.S. Nordic Teams; John Rand ’38, chief of communications; and an impressive additional list of alumni starters, chief of checkers, coaches, and assistants. Jack Riley +’44 coached the gold medal winning U.S. Olympic Hockey Team. I also note that Dartmouth Rug- by club appears Sunday afternoon, April 10, on CB.S. in a match played the previous day against a combined Oxford-Cambridge team in West Point’s Michie Stadium. Well, Howard, that seems to be all the news I know of our Alma Mater for the present. -- Say hello to Myra. Sincerely, “Chuck” Frantz 42 BROTHERHOOD WEEK Dear Editor: I just finished reading your edi- torial on “Brotherhood Week” and was moved by it. It was the finest and most sin- cere article I have read. Sincerely Aaron S. Lisses OD Valve NO PLACE LIKE, BACK MOUNTAIN Dear Editor: I am enclosing a check for The Post. Please keep it coming as we would be lost without it. People may complain about the “Back Mountain” but for my money, I would move back tomorrow. After living in Dallas and Sha- vertown for over twenty years, we are now living in Hayettsville, Md., about six miles outside of Wash- ington. Best of Luck to All Bettie and Clyde Brace BROTHERHOOD WEEK Dear Editor: Cecil Krewsen reprinted the arti- cle from your Barnyard Notes about Brotherhood in our “Weekly As- tonisher” as I call our paper. I just want to tell you what fine sentiment it portrayed, and to aver that as long as we still have edi- tors who can think and feel and act in such manner, our country is not lost! You and Cece are a good pair Arthur B. Davenport, M.D. 74 Elm Street Tunkhannock Senior Troop 9 Sees Films On Camp Life Harveys Lake Senior Girl Scout Troop 9, which meets Tuesday eve- nings at 6:15 at Idetown Methodist Church, had as guest speakers Mr. and Mrs. Harry Rossman of Tro- xell’s Switch, who showed films of camps and camping and of life in the out of doors. Mrs. Rossman showed pictures of her own senior girl scout camping expeditions, a fitting introduction to = weekend camping at Wildwood which Troop 9 expects to enjoy this June. ‘Girls are from a variety of places in the Back Mountain, Shavertown, Trucksville, Lehman, Oak Hill, Rug- gles, Trulip Corner, as well as from Harveys Lake. Their theme is serving the community. : Looking at T-V With GEORGE A. and EDITH ANN BURKE SPORT FANS save a good deal of money by watching television. NBC did some figuring the other day and came up with a big saving for sport fan - up to $1157 in ticket admis- sions during 1959. That's the a- mount it would have cost John Q. Fan to buy a seat at every one of the 194 sport events televised by NBC last year. If Mr. Fan took along his wife, or Junior, or weekend guests, the cost would be accordingly higher. not to mention hot dogs, peanuts, popcorn and parking, NBC bases its price in ‘the best location - box seats and on the 50 yard line at football games - spots comparable to the easy chair in front of the TV set. TAB HUNTER has signed for a TV series, scheduled for the 1960-61 season. Hunter will be presented as Paul = Morgan, successful young bachelor cartoonist. Malibu Beach, Calif., is the setting. LOLA ALBRIGHT, Peter Gunn's sultry - voiced girl friend, has been signed to star in her first feature film in several years. “A Cold Wind in August”, from the novel by Bur- ton Wohl, rolls in about four weeks at Academy Studio in Hollywood. Lola played opposite Frank Sina- tra in “The Tender Trap’ but has confined her acting to TV for the past two years. BALLET seems to be making a comeback on television after an ab- sence of a couple of years. The Bell Telephone Hour will present the American Ballet Theatre presenta- tion of “Graduation Ball.” This is the 20th anniversary sea- son of the distinguished ballet com- pany. Following its appearance on this program it will prepare for a New York season at the Metropoli- tan Opera House. Then the company will leave for Europe. It will be the first American ballet’ company to appear in Russia. JULIE BAVASSO, who protrays Rose Corelli Fraser on the series, “From These Roots” is twenty-nine. Julie has an. impressive theatrical background that includes founding a New York Theatre group, where she co-produced and acted in a number of experimental plays. Julie has been in “From These Roots’ since the program started in June, 1958. On the assignment, she met Len Wayland, who plays Dr. Buck Weaver, and last August they were married. As if Julie isn't kept busy enough with her TV series, stage roles and keeping house in Greenwich Village, she recently rented a skylight studio in order to pursue her new hobby, painting. JAPAN’S CHANGING FACE, a special two-part report on the youth, of today’s Japan, filmed entirely in that country will be presented on “The Twentieth Century” series Saturday, March 12 and Saturday, March 19. In Part 1, “The New Look,” view- ers will see how 15 years ago Ja- pan’s youth was willing, even ea- ger, to die gloriously for the Em- peror.Today they look on him as a symbol of the past. They frequent French-inspired coffee houses, wear beatnik clothing, live for the plea- sure of the moment and give little thought to the future. Walter Cronkite will be the nar- rator. WORLD. SERIES - Rights for ex- clusive television and radio coverage of the World Series and All-Star baseball games have been extended to the National Broadcasting Com- pany and Gillette Safety Razor Com- pany for / another five years, 1962 through 1966, it was announced by Baseball commissioner Ford C. Frick. \ COMING - Rex Harrison, distin- guished actor of the British and American stage and screen has been signed to star in “Dear Arthur” -- a TV adaptation by Gore Vidal of a Ferenc Molnar play never before produced in the English-speaking world -- on “Ford Startime” Tues- day, March 22. Helen Hayes and Jason Robards Jr. will star in the mystery classic, “The Bat,” the premiere program of the ‘Dow Hour of Great Mys- teries” Thursday, March 31. Mrs. Gilbert Ide Honored At Family Luncheon Mrs. Gilbert Ide was honored at a family covered dish luncheon at her home in Idetown on Wednesday, when relatives gathered to congra- tulate her on her recovery from a recent car crash, and to say goodbye to Mrs. Ide’s daughter, Mrs. Robert Thomas of Meriden, Conn, who spent three weeks at Idetown during her mother’s illness. Bringing covered dishes were Mrs. W. E. Baer and Mrs. Audrey Booth, from Harveys Lake; Mrs. Jesse Boice, Mrs. Russell Spencer, and Mrs. Floyd Hoover, Idetown; Mrs. Herbert Moyer, Herbie and Connie, Kingston; Mrs. Robert Thomas and Joan, Conn.; Mrs. Fred Hughes, Jean and Cindy, Kingston; Mrs. Lawrence Wolfe, Meeker; David Ide. Mr. Thomas came by train Satur- day night, taking his family home Mo Meriden by Greyhound bus on Sunday. Mrs. Ide is getting around on crutches, her leg in a cast. { THE DALLAS POST, THURSDAY, MARCH 10, 1960 By The Oldtimer Rambling Around —D. A. Waters As a rule, a man’s a fool, | When it’s hot he wants it cool; When it's cool he wants it hot, | Always wanting what is not. This little verse, the author of | which we cannot at the moment | identify, is brought to mind by re- cent storm damage to our last cher- ry tree. The actual condition, in the re- cent past, is that this cherry tree has become of little importance. With the reduced size of the fam- ily, and pie crust being frowned up- on by the doctors, sour cherries do not hold their former standing in our family. But in looking at the broken tree we think not of last summer, shut of years ago when it was a flourishing tree, well balanced, over twenty feet high, in which the robins and catbirds of the north- eastern states held their annual con- vention early in July. To pick the crop then required a couple of crates, at least, anda full force of ladders and boys. The birds were helpful, but a little pre- vious in their arrangements, so that to secure an ample supply for the family required picking too early or covering the tree. This tree was a conversation piece for several summers. One day a woman in Har: ry Smith's store asked me how the covering was put on. With a straight face I carefully told her the literal truth, and she responded: “Now I know you're lying.” These sour cherries, when we planted them, were in themselves a proof of the verse. At the time we had a tree of yellow oxhearts, sever- al trees of excellent large red sweet cheeries that Elmer Parrish had planted which were at the time at the peak of production, and an old- er tree of sweet cherries, of a poor- er variety, along the road. We could and did pick sweet cherries by bu- shels and allowed neighbors to help themselves to some trees. But with | all these excellent sweet cherrie- nothing would do but that sour cherries must be arranged for. We traded Mrs. Stem, who had sour cherries, but still there was no sa- tisfaction. Therefore we got busy and plant- ed an Early Richmond and a Mont- morency. The first named was too handy for passing small boys and a storm finished it years ago. The second has been damaged limb by limb for years and is now about finished. In the meantime, the ox- hearts and excellent sweet cher- ries died off or were damaged limb by limb over the years and had to be removed. The poorer tree along the road did well for nearly half a century that I know of, but when | the Telephone Company started in their campaign to cut off every- thing they could see, that tree and an adjoining butternut were so bad- ly gutted that they had to be taken out. : Prior to Parrish’s time there were two ancient trees of old-fashioned black cherries which had been here a long time. There were others in the neighborhood, one in front of the old Welch house, later Wallo’s and a couple along the stone wall now Pinecrest Avenue. The pio- neers liked their pies. And like the cherries, all the peaches, plums, and pears, and most of the apples we took over from Parrish are gone, either by natural loss of life or by sale of property. We have left but one pear and one plum of our own planting, a sorry sight beside what we once had. But then Oldtimer also what he used to be. is’ not ONLY YESTERDAY Ten, Twenty and Thirty Years Ago In The Dallas Post § From The Issue Of March 10, 1950 A stubborn safe at the Township school foiled attempts of robbers to open it early Thursday morning. The mode of entering the building and attacking the safe was reminis- cent of a similar, but successful at- tempt, at Kingston Township two weeks ago. The area has been plagued by a series of robberies for several weeks. Dallas Township school board has asked E.S. Teter, Luzerne County Superintendent, to conduct a sur- vey of all existing facilities of schools of this region, with parents and resi-’ dents invited to hear the findings. Report will be made in July, after adoption of school budgets The goal is one senior high school for the Back Mountain. Wyoming Valley Community Chest leaders are disturbed over the large number ‘of drives. Red Cross now has 239 poten- tial donors in this area. Harry Ohl- man is chairman of the Blood Do- nor effort, Arlean Bowman was elected presi- dent of Dallas Businessmen Monday night, Joseph Hand vice president, Eugene Sick secretary, and James Besecker treasurer. 4 YMCA is establishing “Friendly Indian” groups, to bring the YMCA to the boys who find transportation to central Y difficult or impossible. Quota set by Red Cross for this area is $3,315. Mrs. Johnathan Val- entine is. chairman. Karl Kuehn, 49, died of heart failure Wednesday night, after an” illness that had confined him | to his home for many months, ' and away from Kuehn’s Drugstore which he had operated with his mother after the death of his father G.A.A. Kuehn. Harold Ash has started. con- struction of a two-story building on Main Street Shavertown to house his plumbing business. Game Protectors of the North- east division plan another expendi- tion for browse-cutting and game- cover improvement, this time at Mountain Springs. Jeanette Brown, Dallas, became the bride of Joseph P. Rother at St. Theresea’s church, December 2 Mrs. Nellie Reese, Aunt Nellie to her community at Carverton, has died after a lingering illness. Mrs. Jonathan Valentine was in- stalled president of Dallas Woman's Club, Mrs. George Turn vice presi- dent. The sanctuary at Trucksville Methodist Church will be redecor- ated. Lake Louise has purchased ten cows in the Isle of Guernsey. From The Issue Of March 8, 1940 Five more out-of-town truckers who could not produce weigh-bills on demand by Harveys Lake Po- lice; were sent packing by chief Ira Stevenson, who says folks are tired of being short-changed on coal ton- nage. Dallas firemen’s play, “West of the Rio”, a big success at its first performance, will be repeated Fri- day night. Mrs, Harold Rood di- rected. Interiors were especially well assembled. A change in mail routes is ex- pected to go into effect at Harveys Lake. The Alderson RD route, car- ried by Harry Allen for seventeen years, may be abandoned and its mail handled by Dallas route car- riers. There is a move afoot to pro- test violently any attempt to close “ the Alderson post office and have all mail distributed through Dallas. Mr. Allen’s route is 57 ‘miles long. The United States is preparing to take the census, a 50 million dollar quiz program. Marguerite Ide, Dallas and Theo- dore Cobleigh, Dallas RD 3, became man and wife Wednesday. The cere- mony was performed by Rev. Fran- cis Freeman. Mr. and Mrs. Adam Stock recent- ly celebrated their 57th Wedding anniversary. ? New carrots, 3 bunches 10 cents: jelly.eggs, 3 lbs. 25 c.; salmon, 2 cans 25c. Mrs. Minnie Ruff, 66, almost a lifelong resident of Noxen, died at the home of her daughter in Oneonta. Dallas Township and Laketon are neck and neck for second place, Dallas Borough is out in front. Leslie Kitchen, of Noxen, frac- tured his skull when hit by a motor- cycle in Florida. His condition is good. Alonzo Wolfe, 79, a leader in grange activities, died at his home in Meeker. Mrs. Maude Stem. former teacher at Lake Township, died at her home in Alderson. The Pennsylvania Turnpike will open next spring. From The Issue Of March 4, 1930 G. Harold Wagner, Dallas, is. ap- pointed sub-assessor for the dis- trict. Gottlieb Bauman, Pominy Val- ley florist, is constructing two large green-houses on his property near the Castle Inn. John L. Sullivan, owner of Meri- dian Restaurant, has closed nego- tiations for purchase of land, build- ings and stock of the Dallas Lumber Company. Peter Culp of Huntsville is 88. Himmler Theatre is announcing a new policy. Pictures will be shown four nights a week instead of three, as formerly. Russell Morris has opened a new barbershop in Fernbrook. Earl Husted, newly elected di- rector of Dallas Township schools, is making a good record. John Yaple challenges anybody to meet him in a shoot of 50 clay birds. ‘Shavertown Post Office has been moved from the H.S. Van Campen store to more commodious quarters in the Van Campen Building two doors away. |Hunlock Creek Girl Marries Willis Beck Announcement has been made of the marriage of Nancy Louise Smith, daughter of Mr: and Mrs. A.C. Smith, Hunlock Creek R.D.1, to Willis James Beck, son of Mr. and Mrs. William Beck of Wapwallopen. Rev. Oscar Saxe performed the ceremony in Muhlenburg Church on February 20. Attendants were Mrs. Arlene Gregory, sister of the bride, and Arnold Smith, brother of the bride. Following the ceremony, a re- ception was held at Rummage’s Grove, Hunlock Creek. Mrs. Beck is employed by Mec- Gregor Manufacturing Company in Nanticoke. Mr. Beck is employed by National Select Fabrics Company in Berwick. The couple resides at Hunlock Creek R.D.2. SUCCESSFUL INYESTING... by ROGER E. SPEAR Toncotmann bivione sud hotly READER ASKS ABOUT EFFECT OF SMALL CAR TREND ON EARNINGS OF AUTO MAKERS Q. From Pennsylvania, “I know there has been a considerable trend to compact cars. Can you tell me how this is affecting over-all sales and what effect this trend will have on earnings of auto companies? I own American Motors. Would you hold this stock ?” A. 1t is too early yet to know what effect the small car trend is going to have on earnings of the automobile companies. We can teli better when first quarter reports arc in. I do not believe that profit mar- gins will be affected by the rise of small cars, unless sales of these be- gin to hurt the medium-priced models. In January, the 5 compact models accounted for 21.7% of the total cars produced with 9%-in Jan- uary a year earlier. That these are being well received is shown by the fact that 22% of all retail sales in January were in the small car group. Compact cars appear to be cutting into the sales of the low- priced standard models - Chevrolet, Ford and Plymouth. Sales of Corvairs amounted to 16,500 in January, but Chevrolet dropped 10,000. Ford sold 32,500 Falcons, but sales of Fords dropped 30,000. Chrysler sold | 8146 Vali- ants but sales of Plymouths were down by 7,000 units. American Mo- tors, which makes nothing but com- pact cars, scored a 76% gain unit sales in January on a year-to- year basis. The industry as' a whole had an excellent month, with total car sales over 10% higher than in January, 1959. I believe that the automobile stocks as a group look oversold. I would certainly hold my American Motors on the basis of its sales performance in January. LIST OF STRONG GROWTH STOCKS SUPPLIED Q. From New York State, I have received a legacy of $25,000. Since my salary is more than enough for my needs, I would like to put this money into some very strong growth stocks, to bolster my retirement around 1970. What do you sug- gest?” A. /A list for your purposes might include Corning Glass, Dow Chemi- cal, Eastman Kodak, General Foods, International Busines, and Southern Co. This is a list of very strong growth stocks, and it is well di- versified. Corning Glass is a top company in its field and it is active in research. Dow is also a research situation and one of the best of the great chemicals, Eastman Kodak leads in’ photography. and General Foods. in packaged foods. Inter- national Business Machines, the number one holding of the invest- ment companies, has no peers in the field of office equipment. South- ern Co. has nearly doubled its earn- ings since 1951 and has lifted its dividend 6 times since 1954. A pack- age consisting of equal dollar a- mounts of each of these six issues should very comfortably bolster your retirement. AN UNKNOWN OIL Q. From Pennsylvania, I own 2 block of the First National Oil Com- pany of Houston, Texas, bought in 1921. Is it worthless or what? A. 1 can find no information on this company, although I believe my oil staff has as complete records as can be found in this country. That doesn’t necessarily mean that the stock is worthless, although it seems to indicate it. Your purchase goes so far back it is remotely possible that your company was merged long ago and that your shares have some value. Look on your stock certificate. If a bank is listed as registrar or transfer agent, write to that bank. If the company exer- cised these functions, your best hope is to write them at Houston giving the name exactly as it ap- pears on the ' certificate. Perhaps Uncle Sam's very efficient mai service can dig something out for you. (Send your investment questions tc Mr. Roger E. Spear, c/o this paper.) Three Local Women In Boston Store Show Three Back Mountain women took part in the parade of fashions Tues day and Wednesday at the annua’ Boston Store Fashion Show at Irem Temple. They were: Mrs. Fletcher C Booker, Machell Avenue; Mr. J. D Houlette and Mrs. W. Wayne Dorn- sife, New Goss Manor. The trio, all experienced in model- ling, showed suits, cocktail dresses wraps, and sportswear, braving icy roads to take part in the dress re- hearsal Monday night. The annual affair is held for benefit of local hospitals. Susan Louise Linger Mr. and Mrs. J. Robert Linger 5560 Vale Drive, Denver 22, Colora- do, announce the birth of a baby girl, Susan Louise, February 28, at Presbyterian Hospital, Denver. They have two other children, Cynthia and Ricky. Mrs. Linger is the former Betty Lewis, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Francis Lewis of Lehman. Mr. Linger is son of Attorney and Mrs. Linger of Denver. in i DALLAS, PENNSYLVANIA : >, S Bortvard Notes “The Purina people sell everything’ our handsome friend Add Woolbert boasted one day as he stopped by to pull Chi Chis tail. She snarled and made a pass at him with her sharp front teeth. “Purina monkey chow might improve her disposition” he offered ruefully as he withdrew to a safer distance. y Then as an afterthought, “We don’t sell much of it around here,” he mused regretfully, ‘there's not many’s fool enough to keep a menace like that in the office.” Chi Chi coyly arched her tail over her back and paced spitefully ; back and forth on her perch, glancing now and then over her shoulder at the crestfallen Purina representative. It was her way of saying “Oh, yeah!” to the mighty. We felt a little sorry for Add and a bit concerned, we might say. An unpredictable little monkey often strains customer relations. The bubbling young matron who bounces through the door clad in shorts to see the “cute little monkey’ often leaves with the feeling that she has tangled wih a gorilla. ] In no position to bargain, we decided to test Add’s ‘monkey chow” “fortified”, he said, “with vitamins and all the ingredients to tame a savage beast. The Philadelphia zoo is one of our best customers,” he said proudly, “but I don't think Jim Huston's got any in stock. We sell a lot of it in Philadelphia. Have it here in two weeks.” Add departed cheerfully, order book in hand, grinning and waving his arm as he eased his big frame through our doorway. He'd beard a lion in its den to get an order for Purina. We forgot about the incident, but sure as shooting’ two weeks to the day we saw a big fellow puffing up the walk with a bag of feed in his arms. SCA A We opened the door. : “Where's your camera ?”, he inquired looking around as though it might be on the desk, over the fireplace mantle or under Mrs. : Hick’s chair. “Here's your monkey chow, packed full of vitamins by Purina. I'll bet there isn’t a dadblasted monkey better fed in Pennsylvania,” he beamed, forgetting that the Philadelphia zoo is in Penn’s Woods. i “Now where's that monkey ?”, he asked, “We'll test it.” -£ I explained that in the interests of better relations we had : moved Chi Chi and her cage into the backroom. Out we went, hands filled with golden nuggets of Purina monkey chow. Chi Chi purred like a kitten. She reached for the proffered walnut-sized pellets, first filling one paw then another, transferring two pellets to each of her feet until among paws, mouth, and feet she had greedly distributed ten Purina nuggets. Then in the most unmonkey-like fashion, she lost her balance and fell to the bottom of her cage but without releasing one of her golden treasures. Chi Chi had fallen for Purina. No Purina salesman could have ever asked for a better or more appreciative little monkey. From Pillar To Post ee By MRS. T. M. B. HICKS, JR. It must have been in 1901 that we had another March storm just like the one that took the Eastern seaboard by surprise on Thursday. Inaugurations used to come March 4, and usually the weather was spring-like in Baltimore and Washington, with violets beginning to bloom in the parks, and new green everywhere. Nobody expected a blizzard. do But it swept in out of nowhere, and traffic ceased between’ Baltimore and Washington the night of March 3. Teddy Roosevelt was inaugurated in view of only a fraction of the usual crowd. It must have been Teddy. President McKinley had been assas- sinated, with flags flying mournfully at half mast, and Teddy had taken over his unfinished administration, roaring into the White House with all the verve of the Rough Riders. McKinley wag succeeded by Teddy, so it must have been Teddy who was inaugurated that snowy March 4. The only reason I remember it, was that two of my aunts had come down from New York State to visit at that time, to get a breath of premature spring and take in the inauguration. And there were Aunt Carrie and Aunt Flo pacing the floor, wondering if the W. B. and A. would resume service in time. It didn’t. But Mamma consoled them with baked oysters and hot biscuits. These days, they'd have watched it on Television, but there was no T-V, no radio, no spot announcements. The inauguration was presumably going according to schedule. It was in the Baltimore Sunpaper the next morning, small comfort to the storm-bound. There weren't any cars, of course,. And even if there had been, roads between Baltimore and Washington {were pretty rudimentary at the turn of the century. I couldn’t see what all the fuss was about. The schools had . closed because of the storm. and!I was happily ensconced with “Little &= Lord Fauntleroy” in a small rocker in the corner of the living room. n Why did those old women want to go to Washington, anyhow ? 5 (They must have been all of thirty, though Aunt Carrie might have T had the edge on Mamma and Aunt Flo by a couple of years.) = The Inauguration seemed several light-years away, and the : affairs of Little Lord Fauntleroy were pressing. I knew he would be - reunited with his mother, because I had read the book before on i many occasions, but “Dearest” was still living beyond the gates, and a there was always the chance that this time the story would turn out # “ a § PNP SS EIR UES PSE SEE EN OR DR TY I SEER RET EO ET PR MRR differently. Tt wasn’t until I was clean grown-up that the news broke that Frances Hodgson Burnett had had to smack her little boy forcefully to induce him to call her Dearest. He wasn’t about to be humiliated before his peers, and if she didn’t cut off those damn yellow curls: for him, he would do it himself, with the kitchen shears. : It was a shock to see Little Lord Fauntleroy in the movies some years later, and find that he was wearing an Eton jacket and long pants instead of the black velvet suit with its lace collar and red / sash around the middle. And he had had a haircut, in line with changing times. By the time the baked oysters and the hot biscuits were served, Dearest had come to live at Dorincourt, and all was well. The little mopping up that still remained to be done could well be postponed until after the dishes were out of the way. I'm expecting somebody to call up and tell me that it wasn’t Teddy Roosevelt that was inaugurated that snowy. March 4; that it did not in fact bliz at all on March 4 of 1901. But by a process of elim- ination, I don’t see how it could have been anybody else. By the time the next inauguration came around, I was a big girl, and no longer interested in Little Lord Fauntleroy except as a fond memory. By that time, too, Mamma had shed at least twenty years. She was still, of course, a very old lady at thirty-four, but not decrepit. She might last out, I reflected judicially, until I was out of school, or maybe until that far-off day when I might be married. But nobody could expect miracles, and at thirty-four, life must be nearly over, with nothing interesting in store. She got younger and younger as the years passed, learning to swim in an outfit of grey brilliantine trimmed with white braid, reaching to an immodest level above her ankles over a pair of sub- stantial grey bloomers, and finally, eons afterward, she took up golf, and by that time we had become exactly the same age. I asked her once about that snowy inauguration day, and she laughed and said Aunt Carrie and Aunt Flo had made life a trial, steaming around there about not being able to go to the ceremonial, but that they had calmed down a lot after being sufficiently fed, and that Aunt Flo, as usual, had overestimated her capacity, and had been 'violently ill in the night. ‘And that, as far as she was concerned, the blizzard had been a blessing. Seems it had been Aunt Carrie’s idea all along to go to the inauguration and she had agreed to it to keep peace in the family. 2 | | | LE i Yen i . Sid F ‘week of “perial L series a BACK ‘nesday. ‘went on ‘three ge ‘total pir dead to Dallas ‘game of No othe vo at | suthera with 54 Leadir ion were TONA C 207-523 ettes po and leac Pat alsc : Reg Jur and S - ¥ i a ATR HT RS
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