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At Sterling Farms, Senator A. J.
Two Guernsey breeders in the | Sordoni’'s Sterling Kathleen, eight
area have established high records | years old, produced 10,500 pounds !
| pounds of butterfat during a test
ing period of 284 days, milked twice
Architects Honor
S. V. Moskowitz
Named Fellow Of
National Institute
Samuel Z. Moskowitz, Briar Hill,
Carverton Road, has recently been
elected to membership in the College
of Fellows of the American Insti-
tute of Architects, a distinction
which he shares with two other well
known architects of the Northeast- |
ern region, General Thomas BE!
Atherton and Robert A. Eyerman.
The fellowship will be presented
April 26 in Philadeiphia, at the
104th Annual Convention.
Mr. Moskowitz, founder of Mos-
kowitz Architectural Firm in Wil-
kes-Barre, has served four terms as
president of Northeastern Penn-
sylvania Chapter, American Institute
of Architects, and was elected treas-
urer in 1957, an office which he
now holds.
Notable achievements include
design of Jewish Community Center, |
Ternple B'nai B'rith, the Hub Store,
Percy Brown restaurant, Miners
National Bank Travel department,
and many others in the Valley, as
well as in Scranton and Hazleton.
He is on the Kingston Township
planning board.
He is a Yale man, and also a grad-
uate of New York University Sch-
ool of Building Law. From 1928 to
1933 he was chief designer for Ros-
aria Candelsa architectural firm in
New York, specializing in con-
struction.
= Mr. Moskowitz is co-author of
Wilkes-Barre City Building Code,
and served since 1955 on the State
Building Code Advisory Board.
His wife is the former Estell
Leibson. x
Murray Is New
Lehigh Agent
Started His Career
At Lopez In 1910
James Murray, Claude street,
veteran railroad man of forty-seven
| years who started his career as a
with the American Guernsey Cattle |of milk, 515 of butterfat, milked | | boy in Lopez in 1910 with the Lehigh
Club,
Pennsylvania State University.
production supervised by | twice daily for 285 days.
i Fan,
ringer has ag six-year old, Lang- |299 days.
valley Bee Julia,
11,590 pounds of milk 'and 618
/
who produced
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100Years Ago ThisWeek...in
THE CIVILWAR
(Events exactly 100 years ago this week that led to the Civil War—
told in the language and style of today.)
“NOT EXPEDIENT”
Lincoln Blocks Senate Move
To Get Ft. Sumter Letters
WASHINGTON, D.C.—March 25—President Abraham Lincoln today
refused— “respectfully,” but flatly—to release to the Senate recent
“dispatches from Maj. Robert Anderson, commander at shaky Fort
Sumter, Charleston, S.C.
The chief executive notified the Senate he had ‘‘come to the con-
clusion that at the present moment the publication . , . would be
‘inexpedient.”
Request by the Senate for the
data came as concern over the
pivotal fortress in Charleston Har-
bor rose to fever pitch.
Reports received this week
are that the garrison’s food
supply will run out April 15
and that local provisioning
has become virtually impos-
sible.
Anderson’s force of 65 soldiers
and a seven-man brass band
watch from their stony seat in ANDERSON
the bay as a Rebel force number-
ing in the thousands is building up at Charleston under Confederate
Army General Pierre G. T. Beauregard.
* * *
AS THE NATION'S eyes have turned to Sumter, Anderson as
attained the status of a national hero—a role heightened by an ac-
count being told here this week.
It is the story of how Anderson, a Regular Army officer from
Kentucky, outfoxed the entire Confederate force last Christmas
to move his tiny unit to Fort Sumter.
When he took command at Charleston last Nov. 21, Anderson found
his two companies stationed at Fort Moultrie, another part of the
harbor defenses.
Aged, crumbling Moultrie is on Sullivan’s Island, not too far from
a plush summer hotel and—Anderson saw ‘with i easy
rifle range of nearby rooftops.
Sand had piled up against its low walls to the height that cows
could mount the sandy hills and moo contentedly over the fort’s
ramparts.
BEAUREGARD
Anderson ‘had a sentimental attachment for Moultrie—his father -
had commanded it during the Revolutionary War—but he saw at
once it was virtually indefensible.
* % *®
SUMTER, three miles out in the harbor, was an incomplete strue-
ture but more suitable as a defense position, Anderson saw; but
Confederate picket boats prevented any open troop movements.
So the wily Kentucky officer chartered three schooners, loaded
the garrison’s women, children and supplies on board, and dis-
patched them to Fort Johnson, on the opposite shore.
Crews were instructed to tell Southern picket troops that the fam-
ilies were being sent to the North.
With bulk of the supplies out of the way, Anderson’s men, on Dec.
28, eased their way out of Moultrie and went by longboat to Sumter,
quieting pro-South construction workers there with the threat of
bayonets. /
As they arrived a signal gun was fired and the three schooners
with the families and six months’ provisions sailed from Fort John-
son to Sumter. Rear guard units at Moultrie spiked that fort’s guns
and burned the gun-carriages. :
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THUS, an astounded and angry City of Charleston awoke to find
the Federal forces in a far stronger position out on Sumter.
It is the supplies carried to Sumter during Anderson's operation
that has kept the units alive since. The only attempt to restock the
fort failed when the merchantman ‘Star of the West’ was scared
away by Confederate gunfire last Jan. 9.
£3 .
Army Pullout Figure Mounting
WASHINGTON, D.C.—March 24—At least 350 of the 1,108 regular
officers on the rolls of the U.S. Army are expected to resign to join
Confederate forces, a War Department spokesman said today.
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CO ORES: a , BRAD Y EE a y RATION AL Aon Ss;
QNURES.
sack, for building bird-houses.
Sterling | | Valley, has been assigned as agent |
a junior two-year old, gave tat the Dallas Depot.
At Lake Louise, Raymond Goe- | 10,660 pounds of milk, 531 of fat in |
Mr. Murray replaces Christopher
O’Brien, Wilkes-Barre, a veteran of
forty-four years service, who has
been in charge of the Lehigh’s Dallas
office for the past three years.
In returning to the Back Mountain
area, Mr. Murray almost completes
a full cycle. He was agent at Noxen
from 1916 through 1932 when that
station was one of the busiest on
the Bowman’s Creek Branch. He was
there when the ice harvests were at
a peak at Mountain Springs- and
thousands of loaded cars
shipped annually. The lumbering
industry was on the wane but there
were still many incoming and out-
going shipment related to the in-
dustry.
Mr. Murray also served at Noxen
during the period of construction of
the Armour Leather Company plant
after its destruction by fire during
World War I. [At that time there
were four passenger trains daily,
numerous freights and special work
trains conveying Back Mountain
workmen to Coxton daily.
During his tenure at Noxen Mr.
Murray served for twelve years as
secretary of Noxen Township School
Board.
From 1932 until this month Mr.
Murray served as local ticket agent
for the Lehigh at Wilkes-Barre
where he became known to thous:
ands of travellers.
[Another Noxen boy who learned
the railroad business under Mr.
Murray is Paul Casterline who is now
in charge of the Lehigh Valley office
in Luzerne. Mr. Casterline served
the Dallas office until Mr. O’Brien
came here three years ago.
Lake Legion Presents
Flag To Boy Scouts
Harveys Lake American Legion
and Auxiliary presented Boy Scout
Troop 331 with a fifty-star Ameri-
can flag and staff March 7, at the
Lake-Noxen school building. -Com-
mander Kenneth Jackson led in the
salute to the flag.
Scoutmaster Arthur West pre-
sented award pins, following open-
ing of a candle-light ceremony by
assistant leader Thomas ‘Smith!
Reese Finn read the Scout oath and
laws.
Malcolm Nelson spoke on the
program for spring. Richard Wil-
liams introduced Lions Club presi-
dent George Alles, who spoke brief-
ly. (Commander Jackson and Mr.
Alles gave the troop two axes. Scout
executive Nicholas Yazwinski spoke
on the meaning of becoming a ten-
derfoot.
Tenderfoot scouts are Robert and
William Johnson, Kent and Terry
Jones, [Michael . ‘Groblewski and
Perry West; second class,
Groblewski, Gary West, Rance and
Richard Newell, John Bozek, Robert
Sorber, and Peter Saramonis; first
class, Reese Finn, Richard Sara-
monis, and Charles Jocelyn. Ten-
derfoot candidates, Larry Covert
and Randy Calkins.
Receiving fiftieth anniversary pins
and physical fitness badges were
Reese Finn, Charles Jocelyn, Gary
West, John [Groblewski, Rance and
Richard Newell, John Bozek, Peter
and Richard Sarambnis. Finn and
Jocelyn won camping merit badges;
West, art badge; William Johnson,
an axe, and Terry Jones a haver-
WETre [wg
John |
THE DALLAS POST, THURSDAY, MARCH 23, 1961
Rambling Around
By The Oldtimer — D. A. Waters
If you want to gét a lot for five tax
exempt dollars and at the same time
support a worthwhile institution,
join the WYOMING HISTORICAL
AND GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY.
Founded in 1858, the fitfieth anni-
versary of the burning of Wyoming
anthracite in an open grate without
a forced draft, the Society has car-
ried on for over a century. It was
chartered for literary, scientific, and
historical purposes, especially for a
library museum and the preservation
of relics and records connected with
the history of Wyoming Yalley and
vicinity.
The library contains thousands of
volumes, not only of local history and
biography and geology, but of the
state and nation, particularly of New
England from which the early famil-
ies came. Many of the early New
| England towns are represented by
| several volumes of vital records and
early histories. The Society is a
Pennsylvania and Federal depository
and has many. government docu-
ments. It has received many histor-
ical, ethnological, and genealogical
books, magazines and pamphlets. It
has a large collection of rare old pap-
ers, complete files of local, news-
papers, and hundreds of photographs
of local places and people. There is a
large collection of local and general
manuscripts and maps.
The Museum collection * includes
local geological items, American Ind-
ian specimens, and local antiques,
utensils, implements, and relics,
which with the library,are housed in
a modest building on South Franklin
Street, back of the Library, provided
in the will of Isaac S. Osterhout.
Over the years the Society has
published a large number of “Pro-
ceedings and Collections” in bound
volumes, which contain,in addition
to the annual reports, lists of gifts,
etc. some of the many interesting
papers, etc. prepared for the Society.
For example, the volume in 1961
contains William Penn Ryman’s His-
tory of Dallas Township, Pa. A vol-
ume in 1938 contains Col. William H.
Zierdt’s History of the 109 Field Ar-
tillery, in reality a history of local
units in all wars since 1747 includ-
ing World War 1.
Numerous
on local history have been published.
The Society sponsors lectures on
| local history and similar topics. Spec-
ial exhibits are staged from time to
time. the present one being on early
farming and household implements.
In 1958 the Society received’ as a
gift from Mrs. Franck G. Darte, a
descendant of Luke | Swetland, the
Swetland Household at 855 Wyoming
Avenue, Wyoming. An apartment for
the Director of the Society is on the
second floor. The first floor has been
restored by Mrs. Darte and furnished;
with a few, exceptions, with furniture
from her family. The early part of the
house dates from 1797 and contains
kitchen utensils, etc. of the period.
The Society maintains the furnished
house as a museum open to the pub-
lic.
Luke Swetland, with wife and four
sons, came to Wyoming Valley from
Connecticut in 1772. He cleared land
and farmed in Kingston Township.
He was in Washington's army until
released with other local men on ac-
count of exposure of the local settle-
ments to Indian attacks. He was one
of four men chosen by lot to remain
in the Forty Fort during the battle. |r
In August of the same year he was
captured by the Indians and taken to
Catherine’s Town, later to Apple-
town, a Seneca village. At first he
had to run the gauntlet and undergo
other discomforts but later was tre-
ated more kindly. He eluded the Ind-
ians when they fled before General
Sullivan’s advance and made his way
to Sullivan’s army where he just es-
caped being shot before he was rec-
ognized. He later wrote an account of
his captivity. When he returned to
Wyoming, he found that his family
had given him up for dead and re-
turned to Connecticut. He went for
them and later all returned to the
Valley.
His eldest son, Belding Swetland
was born. in Sharon, Connecticut,
and, came to the valley when about
ten years ald. As a teenager he was
left during the battle, later returned
to Connecticut. At Sharon he mar-
ried Sarah, called Sally Gay, daught-
er of Col. Ebenezer Gay, ancestor of
numerous Gay descendants here-
abouts. They returned to Wyoming
folders and pamphlets | Valley and reared a family here.
ONLY YESTERDAY
Ten, Twenty and Thirty Years Ago In The Dallas Fost
ANB
IT HAPPENED 30 YEARS AGO:
VA small model of the proposed
Rockefeller Center in New York ap-
pears on the front page of the issue
of March 20, 1931. Radio City will
occupy three blocks in downtown
-Mantattan, the largest building pro-
‘ject in its history.
Bankrupcy sale of Higgins College
Inn brought $1,375 for stock and
fixtures.
Community Easter Egg Hunt at
Fernbrook the Saturday before Eas-
ter is expected to bring out at least a
thousand children.
Marriage of Catherine Lois Hof-
meister, Shrine View, to Frank
Whitesell of Luzerne, March 14, has
been announced.
Edward H. Coolbaugh, 23, of Nor-
ton Avenue Dallas, died after an
iliness of complications, following a
fall while at work with the Western
Electric Co. at Lewistown.
Vv Four forest fires in this area to
date this year. Woods were dry until
the recent snowstorm. Drought con-
ditions summer and fall left the
woods in dangerous condition.
Selected fresh eggs were 25 cents
per dozen; buckwheat coal $5 per
ton.
IT HAPPENED 20 YEARS AGO:
© WPA street improvement grojent
in Dallas will employ 25 workers for
a year. Cost, $34,888.
Richard Jones, Kingston Township
{ high-school senior, won the Luzerne
County Forensic Contest at Hazelton.
Ralph Hazeltine was featured in
"a Know Your Neighbor.
Mr. and Mrs. Ozro M. Wilcox of
Chase observed their Golden Wed-
ding.
The Arthur Newmans, East Dal-
las, celebrated their Silver Wed-
ding.
My. and Mrs. Ted Wilson were
given a house-warming at their new
home in East Dallas.
Mrs. Thomas Moore was installed
Worthy Matron of Dallas Eastern
Star, and Mrs. John T. Nicholson
was elected president of Dallas
Rotary Women.
Abbie VanBuskirk, [Fernbrook,
became the bride of John Carr of
Luzerne at a double-ring ceremony.
Mrs. Charles Cease, 87, mother of
Mrs. Finney of Trucksville, broke
her hip in a fall.
more more more more
— Mrs. Benjamin Jenkins of Shaver-
town took first place in soprano
solo competition at the Edwardsville
Eisteddfod, Sheila Ann Arched,
Dallas took a first in the under-
seven contest,
AND 10 YEARS AGO:
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Kline of
Orange celebrated their Golden
Wedding.
The Back Mountain Kennel. Club
laid plans for its Sixth Annual Dog
Show. ~
Sweet Valley planned its Big Par-
it for Memorial Day.
‘Arch Austin’s mother, Mrs,
Ts Williams, was found dead
in her home at Edwardsville.
Estate and Insurance office in cen-
tral Dallas.
' Strawberry growers discussed a
strawberry Auction, on lines of the
green tomato auction. Jim Hutch-
linson says this area has been ship-
James Besecker opened a Real-
ping berries to Washington and
Baltimore after the southern season
is finished. An auction would tend to
get higher prices.
Em Blackman’s white coat, “Whis- |
kers,” died, caught in a spring trap.
The name of Miss Frances Dor-
rance was unanimously voted as
‘Distingushed Daughter of Pennsyl-
vania.
Trophies went to coaches of win-
ning teams at g dinner at Merman
Kern's, Coach Robert M. Thomas of
Dallas Township accepting the Dal-
las Post award for the winning girls
team; coach Bop Becker, Kingston
Township, the Dallas Bank trophy
for the boys. < .
George LaBarr, 61, commercial
artist of Orange, died suddenly of a
stroke.
Charles Long planned his annual
auction sale, March 31.
Mrs. Synda Jones, Wilkes-Barre,
was married to David Williams of
of Trucksville at a quiet wedding
ceremony. i
Doris Finney, .. Carverton Road,
i became the bride of Frederick Run-
dle of Forty Fort at a double ring
ceremony in Trucksville Methodist
Church.
John Pall, Sweet Valley, 65, died
of heart trouble.
Mr. and Mrs. Ray Shiber opened
an antique shop in their home on
Center Hill Road.
Dallas Township has a few pieces
of playground equipment ready to
be installed when the playground
area is graded. More equipment is
needed.
C o m e “As You-Are morning
coffee hour at Prince of Peace found
dismayed home-makers in all sta-
ges of metal curler and bathrobe
disarry, congregating at the church.
Penalties were exacted for
garment added or subtracted from
the unappetizing total, and a stiff
penalty levied for refusing to come
when committeemen called at the
door.
Brownie ‘troops sold the most
Girl Scout cookies.
Five Local Boys Leave
Bs McCrory Managers
Vive local boys left Dallas area
recently for floor managing posi-
tions in McCrory stores in Pennsyl-
vania and Long Island. They are
Kenneth Butry, Harveys Lake, who
went to Waynesboro, Eugene Sedler,
Overbrook Road, Dallas, Long Is
land City, L. I, Stanley Szela, Fern-
brook, Hanover, Pa., Sherman D.
Robbins, Pottstown, Pa., and ‘Robert
Nichols, Main Street, Wyoming. All
of the boys have been gaining
experience in the Shavertown store
for over three months.
Shavertown manager Tom Hobbs
reports that he is well pleased with
the calibre of Back Mountain boys
who have worked with him as
trainees and is proud of the oppor-
tunities his company is offering the
community in the way of good posi-
tions.
Dermatitis medicamentosa is a
term expressing unfavorable reac-
tion to drugs, better known as anny
eruption.
each
| per front foot.
Safety Valve
Dear Howard:
Three-score and thirteen years dgo
there was born on this continent a
new citizen (or so he thought), con-
ceived of Christian parents, and rear-
ed to the principle that accuracy of
detail is a cardinal virtue, especially
among journalists.
Now (if he accepts your story--
Post 3/9--pg.3A), he finds that prin-
ciple caught up in a blinding bliz-
zard, and his virtue in danger of be-
ing lost. I quote:
“Seventy-four years ago, March 11
and 12, the great-granddaddy of all
blizzards roared down on the area, a
blinding snow that made it hazard-
ous to even go to the barn from an
isolated country house.”
The props are right, the scene
properly set, the drama well port-
rayed. But what of the timing? The
saga of that “Blizzard of 1888” has
become a family tradition. Seven
children were ‘brung up’ on it in
that ‘isolated country house.” Re-
peatedly I have used it in anecdotes
of the ‘good wold days.” That the
winds have heightened and the drifts
deepened with the years (a privilege
of age) is beside the point. At least
I had, supposedly, kept the date
right.
And now to find myself, via my
favorite newspaper, guilty of chron-
ological mayhem! To make matters
worse, just recently I heard a prom-
inent statesman refer to it on TV as
“the big blizzard of 1887.” “Oh, what
a tangled web we weave, when first
we practise to deceive!”
This is a serious matter, Howard.
Slipping a year over on a person of
three-score-plus is destructive to
morale, Admitted that I am not
young’ as I used to be, from your
story I never was. And that, as the
little white lie which begets bigger
ones, has led to complications. For
example: On the basis of your tim-
ing I have lied about my birth, cheat-
ed myself of my first year of free
schooling, missed out on my first-
year majority right at the ‘polls,
given false witness to my draft board,
corrupted the Church register, and
falsified my income-tax reports.
Fortunately, if I am to be held to
account, a life sentence at my age
will not be a lengthy penalty. But
when they cart me to Sunnyside, as
' eventually they will, it may be dis-
covered that I shall have died a year
earlier, much much to long to keep
a corpse above soil. I tremble at the
thought: what if Risley had set that
blizzard in 1889! What that would
have done to the parental (mis) con-
ception!
Well, errors are inevitable. I don’t
think either of us is an intentional
stinker. For years I have known you
to be an ‘editor of integrity. Above
that, the Post is ultra-clean both in
text and print. Invariably it caters to
the aesthete. For Instance, when you
refer to the hazards of “getting tc
the barn,” I know you had another
little out-building in mind. In dec-
ency you chose the lesser hazard.
And, although I must now revise
my whole life, I-still find Balm of
Gilead in your blizzard story: I hope
to become on octogenarian; to help
elect another President to make up
for the first one I missed. You have
strengthened that hope by setting
my date a year earlier. For that I am
grateful. ;
OLD SCRIBBLUM
Bert VanDyke
Tunkannock, Pa
eo [Dear Bert: You can't make a
mathamatician out of a good writer.
That was “young” Mrs. Hicks’ arith-
metic--Editor
EXPLAINS LIGHT ASSESSMENT
Dear Editor:
This is an article on street light-
ing in townships as a lot of people
have asked me to explain. 3
I explained it in 1947 at a meet-
ing of a group of property owners
in the Shavertown Fire Hall. It
was something new here at the
time due to a State Supreme Court
order forbidding the Supervisors
from collecting a light tax on the as-
sessed valuation of property, as
lighting was not townshipwide as in
a Borough like Dallas where every-
one pays for street lighting on a
millage basis.
The tax had to be in the form of
assessment by the front foot of the
property owners Land. Any proper-
ty owner can have a light placed on
his street by a petition of property
owners who own fifty-one percent
of the foot frontage on the street.
These lights are to be self-sup-
porting by enough assessments to be
collected to pay for each light in-
stalled. To equalize the cost for
these lights the rate is from one
cent per front foot to seven cents
is twenty-five percent of these rates.
When buildings ‘are constructed on
the lots the assessment goes up ‘to
the full 100 percent rate. When
buildings are constructed on the
lots more money is brought into the
light fund thus bringing a reduction
from seven cents a front foot
downward.
The required distance between
lights is 500 feet but due to the fact
that they ‘are placed on Electric
Company poles it is impossible to
have them the exact distance. Any
property owner within a radius of
250 feet is subject to this assess-
ment.
It is not a tax as I’have heard
some people call it.
Respectfully yours
Louis Ranier, 81 Rice Avenue,
Trucksville,
Practicing physicians are only too
well aware of the increasing fre-
quency of adverse reactions to the
‘modern so-called ‘miracle drugs, J
On vacant lots it |
§ Barnyard Notes
“They're all dead now! What difference does it make whether
they were wounded at Chancellorsville; died at Gettysburg or lived
to a ripe old age and died at home? They're all gone!”
“Why don’t you come to bed ?” Myra called impatiently from the
stairs as I turned the last page of the ‘“Bucktailed Yildeats” by Edwin
Glover.
The tattling clock struck 2 a. m. Hell hath no fury like a wife
whose husband becomes engrossed in Civil War yarns—and I might
add, no sergeant ‘ever had a sharper tongue.
What is it that makes men want to study a war that is dead
and gone ‘when there is a dynamic new one at hand with guided mis-
siles and hydrogen bombs to blow the whole shooting match to king.
dom come:
Well, maybe, that's it. It is an escape from what is to what wi
an unwillingness to face the present in order to return to a atatie
world where each dramatic incident can be stopped at the peak of its
action and studied like a colored slide flashed on a screen. Guided
missiles and the conquest of space are for the sharper minds of physi-
cists and little boys, but the Civil War—one of the most exciting,
idealistic and tragic periods in Amercan history—is for a peculiar
ageless breed.
Whether this breed could have faced the blood and carnage, the
gangrene and putrid odors of the surgeon's shed is a question; whether
it would have had the stamina to trudge the long dusty roads to Rich-
mond or Antietam is doubtful; but one thing it has in common, a
fascination for the unsophisticated America of 1861 to '65 and the
struggle of the ordinary American to make his homeland a better
place for all mankind.
It is to honor the memory of those who spilled their Dloodnitt
for materialistic personal advantage, but for an ideal on both sides
of a Great Cause, that we read this history. ' It is.an obligation we owe
to the memory of brave men whether they were clad in the Blue of
the North ‘or the Grey of the South, for they were all Americans.
And no American living today can have an appreciation of what
makes America great without an understanding of the struggle that
took place just one hundred years ago.
No period of American history is better chronicled than the .
\ 1850 ‘through 1870. More than 45,000 books have been published:
the War Between the States—more than on any other subject except
the Bible—and they are still coming off the presses almost daily."
The songs and the poetry of that era are a part of the ‘woof and
warp ‘of the fabric of America. The speeches of the greatest men to
grace the halls of Congress are classics and no President, of a great
land compares with the sublime grandeur, the smple understanling 4
Abraham Lincoln.
Neither World War I nor World War II productd the literature .
nor the articulate leadership—except perhaps in - ‘England—that our
own Civil War produced. Where can you find another song to rival
“Battle Hymn of the Republic”? or a speech, except perhaps Chur-
chil’s “Sweat, blood and tears,’ to rival the Gettysburg Address—
one of the clasics of the English tongue ?
The Civil War was not something that could have bees pre-
vented. It was inevitable. It would have come sooner. or later. It
was one of those great evolutionary processes of history where men
are pawns of change and must pay with their blood for progress,
Out of their sacrifice came not the peonage and serfdom of Europe
nor ‘the narrow national boundaries that have resulted: in two great
holocausts in our lifetimes, but a united America hers the Individual
is a free man. ~
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~ Pillar To Post .
by HIX
The hour had struck.
The mamma cat, highly expectant, dad not especially nny
to settle for the basket i in the basement, took the large ex-kitten firml
by the neck.
“Dear me,” she scolded, out of the side of a mouth filled with.
angry white fur, “What ARE you doing out of your nice warm nest ”.
She started toward the stairway.
The ex-kitten planted its claws firmly on the rug. “What gives,
anyhow. Here's Ma dragging me around by the scruff. Doesn't. she
know I'm practically a teenager?”
The mamma cat made it to the foot of the stairs, hauling the splt-
ting offspring.
She looked helplessly up the stairs.
How was she ever to get that kitten to the nest she was Shining
of stealing in a dark corner of the cupboard across from the bath-
room? And who knew whether the cupboard door would be open?
Worn out with fervor and mounting maternal instinct, she
crouched at the foot of the stairs, her jaws still clamped to the ex-
kitten. She wasn’t going to abandon it. To be sure it was some-
what larger than she had expected, but it was clearly her kitten, and
nothing was going to interfere with her in the performance of her duty.
“Please, aren’t you going to help me?” she inquired with a
muffled mew.. :
Detaching the kitten took considerable Solis It was accomplished
by frenzied yelps from the kitten, and clenched but loosening jaws on
the part of Grey Lady.
The kitten shot out the door as if from a gun, and Grey Lady
looked hopelessly about for her nest.
GONE,” she wept.
“Now don’t get your hair in a knot. It’s ; downstairs. Don’t you
remember?’ 1 soothed her as I picked her up and patted her head.
Grey Lady took a personally escorted trip to the basement. She
settled gratefully into the basket with its prepared padding and ke}
comforting saucer of milk alongside.
She curled herself and purred. :
That interloper kitten, she reflected. Probably it. was Cy
else’s kitten after all. And far too large for. this basket. What a
lovely place for a nap. She’d take just’a little spot of shut-eye before
looking for those kittens again. Looking for kittens was wearing.
Two hours lates she had found her kittens, all four of them, pro-
bably the homeliest in the world,but beautiful to the eye of love.
Grey Lady uncurled and invited inspection.
The ex-kitten strolled by and poked a nose over the edge of the
basket.
“Get out of here, you animal,” Grey Lady squalled, suiting the
action to the word.
Preiss skyrocketed up the Sfops and hid under the living room
couc
She peered out with a hunted expression, whiskers bristling.
“Things happen too fast around these parts,” she concluded.
“First, Ma treats me like a baby, and then she spits at me, There's
no justice.” 3
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MARCH MORNING
The Day breaks with a noncommittal glow
That signifies a temper touch and go
Between the mist and shower of a rain
And skies of clarity—but of the twain
The choice is yet unfixed, the pendulum
Is hesitating. Will it go or come?
And like the day my. temper in suspense
Confesses it is also on the fence, ]
Uneasy in mugwumpiarn. position /
That waits a barometric disposition!
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