THE DAL®S POST THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1962
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By The Oldtimer—D. A. Waters
Right now we seem to be subjected
to a saturation campaign of nau-
seous commercials for body deodo-
rants, sometimes two particularly
disgusting ones for the same pro-
duct being encountered within five
minutes on radio stations close
together on the dial and they have
several others at frequent intervals.
Perfume commercials and adver-
tisements were never as offensive,
that I recall.
Apparently there is, or the manu-
facturers of some deodorants would
like to see, a falling off in the com-
mon use of hot water and soap. We
see a few commercials where pretty
girls and others use certain soaps,
none of which are offensive to
watch. Most of the bigger soap
companies now seem to be spending
their money on advertising deter-
gents and other cleaners and var-
ious washing powders and other
compounds. Even the mouth wash
manufacturers seem to have let up
a little.
There is an old saying that
‘Cleanliness is next to Godliness’.
Jewish authorities show the idea,
not in the same words, in The Tal-
mud. The Romans had elaborate
hot and cold water baths. Francis
Bacon (1561-1626) wrote, “Clean-
ness of body was ever deemed to
proceed from a due reverence to
God”. In a sermon on dress, John
Wesley (1703-1791) said, “Sloven-
liness is no part of religion; neither
this (I Peter 3:3-4) nor any text of
Scripture, condemns neatness of ap-
—parel. Certainly this is a duty, nota
sin; ’cleanliness is, indeed, next to
Godliness.”
In the period covered by Bacon
and Wesley there seems to have
been a falling backward inthe mat-
ter of baths and cleanliness. In
“The Birth of New England”,
Thurlow Stanley Widger says, ‘“Al-
though water was a necessity for
cooking and washing, it wasn’t
even considered essential for bath-
ing because from many parts of
England from which most of these
colonists came, baths as we know
them, were taboo and faces were
sometimes washed only once a
year”. “
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Somewhere, it may have been in
one of Harvey Allen’s frontier
stories, I have read ofthefilthy con-
ditions of places and peoples in the
frontier forts, particularly Fort Pitt,
in which the writer said the Scotch
troops on duty were dirtier than
even in their homeland. And in his-
tories of Methodist Circuit preach-
ers, in this general area, we aretold
that the preachers were many times
very uncomfortable due to house-
holds of dirty people in which they
had to stay for a night.
Another view comes from St. Au-
gustine, about 400 AD, quoted by
Ann Fremantle, in ‘A Treasury of
Early Christianity”, following a
discussion of The Lords Supper:
“If you ask me whence originated
the custom of using the bath onthat
day, nothing occurs to me, when I
think of it, as more likely than that
it was to avoid the offense to de-
cency, which must have been given
at the baptismal font, if the bodies
of those to whom that rite wasto be
administered were not washed on
some preceding day from the un-
cleanness consequent upon their
strict abstinence from ablutions
during Lent; and that this particu-
lar day was chosen for the purpose
because of its being the anniversary
of the institution of the Supper. And
this being granted to those who were
about to receive baptism, many
others desired to join them in the
luxury of a bath, and in relaxation
of their fast.” ;
Evidently putting off taking a
bath had some religious signifi-
cance for some in the early cen-
turies.
One of our young novelists some
years ago got off to a poor start in
describing his heroine in which he
referred to, “The delicious smell of
young womanhood”. Recently in
an adjoining column a local writer
used an adjective, ‘“Ambrosial,”
which, among other things, means
‘‘captivating to the sense of taste or
smell”.
Still, we do not like those com-~
mercials.
Knights Subdue
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ers while netting 22 yards.
Lake-Lehman rushed for 149
yards compared to 16 for North-
west.
Fanfare :
. . . Larry Lettie turned in a good
job at the quarterback post as
Rogers played little after the
Knights built up a 19-0 lead.
Lake-Lehman band put on a
fine pre-game show butthefanshad
to sit through a rather long half-
time glumly when the Northwest
Band did not show up forthe game
.. . maybe band director, John
Milauskas will have to drill his
charges to put on a pre-game and
halftime show.
Better Leighton Never
by Leighton Scott
Phoney Argument
Telephone companies are talk-
ing faster than brush-salesmen
trying to get people to accept the
new All-Number calling system.
I read several months ago where
a California resident was fighting
All-Number calling with organized
resistance, claiming that our lives
are numerical enough as it is. I
think this is pushing things too far.
Telephone companies provide
unfailing service to mankind. If,
in order to expand such service,
they have to- go all-number, the
telephone owner should accept it
dutifully.
But when the telephone company
comes on with a tack like: Let’s
get rid of this greasy kid-stuff, and
switch to all-number dialing —I
take offense.
One of the funniest things since
Ted won in Massachusetts is the
explanation that All Number Call-
ing is scientifically proven easier
than the old rustic method of the
Exchange. Supposedly, there’s no
longer any ‘‘switching of atten-
tion”’.
And no longer do I have to
gnash my teeth in frustrationevery
time I get a zero mixed up with a
letter “0”, or a letter *“I’’ confused
with a “1”.
But probably the most widely
used method of remembering things
is by association. Like we used to
remember the order of suburban
train stops by making up a saying
out of the first letter of each town.
So, it’s the same with exchanges.
Dallas, Shavertown is ORchard,
see? And Centermoreland is FEd-
eral, see? And Sweet Valley is
GReenleaf, see? That’s the way it
is. I mean, was.
So what we werereally doing was
making it more difficult for our-
selves by “switching” our ‘“‘atten-
tion’? By golly, maybe they’re
right. I just thought it was easier
to think of Dallas as ORchard.
Come on, you guys. Tell me the
truth. I can take it. This all-number
stuff is necessary, but it isn’teasier.
I’m a big boy now. Some things in
life just have to be accepted as
necessary. Just give me a piece of
lead to bite down on while I'm
dialing “67” instead of “OR”,
On The Road
Situations-I’'m-glad-I-didn’trun-
up-against department: A little
whild back around 2:15 in the
morning, I might have been driv-
ing toward the Lake from Dallas.
Much to my surprise, that particu-
lar night, I would have been con-
fronted by six drag-racing south-
bound cars stretched neck-and-neck
across the road.
Six-count ’em-six. I wonder where
I would’ve turned to get out of the
way. How much time would I have
had to wonder where to turn?
They -were nailed by Dallas po-
lice, and taken into custody by State
Police. One of the boys was not old
enough to get his license yet, buthe
was keeping in practice. till the
time came.
AUCTION
Antiques=Household Goods-Tools, etc.
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1962
STARTING AT 12:30 P.M.
at Premises of
MRS. C. A. BOSTON
NICHOLSON, PA.
ANTIQUES
Empire Sofa, Victorian Love Seat, Spinning Wheel, Wash Bowl and Pitcher, Wagon Wheels, Quill,
Spring Rocker, Maple Rocker, Viclorian Secretary, Victorian Walnut Oval Table, Pine Table (New
York Legs), Wash Stand, Spool Wash Stand, Urn, Old Frames, Copper Washboiler, Tin Washboller,
Jugs, Crocks, Dishes, Sleigh.
NOUS EE OCLD CGOoOoDS
New Medicine Cabinet with Side Light, Four-piece Mahogany Bed Room Suite, Ten-piece Walnut
Dining Room Suite, Plant Stands, Kitchen Table, Two Kiichen Cabinets, Piclure Frames, Chairs,
Rockers, Book Case, Maple Bed, Brass Bed, Iron Bed, Lawn Chairs, Rugs of all kinds, Cedar Chest
Pull Up Chair, Floor and Bridge Lamps, Radios, Mahogany Princess Dresser, Dressing Table with
Triple Mirror, Grandfather's Clock, Davenport with Slip Cover, Maiching Rocker and Arm Chair with
Slip Covers, Walnut End Table, Mirrors, Bucket-c-day Stove, Coffee Table with Glass Tray, Battleship
Linoleum, Quantity of Wallbaard, Apartment Size Washer, Fireplace Screen and Irons, Metal Wood
Basket, Baby Swing, Metal Folding Cot, High Chair, Wicker Serving Cabinet, Two Foot Lockers,
Child's Clothes Tree, English Prambulator, Folding Screens, Single and Double Bod Springs, Flags,
Buffalo Auto Robe, Step Ladders, Kitchen Stove, Mantle Clock.
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TOOLS - SPORTS CGOODS
Vics, Drill, Electric Hand Sander, Lathe, Electric Horse Clipper, Saws, Microscope, Small Bell Jar,
Large Bell Jar, Shoe Last, Two Large Reflectors, Dumb Bells, Indian Clubs, Five-string Banjo with
Mother of Pearl Inlay, also Case, Johnson Outboard Motor, Pump Gun, Toboggan, Skiis, Roller Skates,
Dog Coop, Bicycle Basket, Gasoline Heater (suitable for camp).
And Hundreds of other items too numerous fo mention.
TERMS CASH
HOWARD SANDS, Auctioneer
Lake-Lehman High School
MARILY WOODLING, EDITOR
JANE DELKANIC, ASSISTANT
It is my pleasure to be reporting
to you for the first time from Lake-
Lehman’s new high school. We
began our scho6ol term Monday,
September 24, and from that mo-
ment to this students and advisors
have adjusted and re-adjusted to
new plans and schedules.
FTA AIDS
During the week preceding the
opening of school the F. T. A.
members assisted the faculty and
office personal in organizing class
schedules and books. Then on the
opening day of school these mem-
bers also acted as guides for
students.
NEW TEACHERS
We would like to welcome back
our previous faculty and a special
welcome to the six new members to
the high school facculty. They are
Miss Dolores Nardone of the com-
mercial department; Miss Mary
Ann Foley, seniro high English
teacher; Mr. Kenneth Maciak,
boy’s physical education and
health teacher; Mr. Mitchell Czoch,
junior high science and chemistry
teacher; Mr. Walter Seroka, junior
high English and social studies
teacher; and Mr. Francis Welczew-
ski, junior high English and social
studies.
TEAM WINS
Last Saturday Lake-Lehman
football team downed Northwest
High School 39-0. This was Lake-
Lehman’s third win this season of
the four games already played.
CONFERENCE HELD
Last Thursday and Friday a
Conference on Smoking and the
Health of Youth was held at the
Scottish Rite Cathedral in Harris-
burg.
Luzerne County was represented
by Mrs. Jean Moledor, school
nurse at Lake-Lehman Jointure,
Patricia Zbick, senior student at
Lake-Lehman High School, Edwin
Cobleigh, supervisor ofsocial stud-
ies at GAR High School and Key
Club advisor and Frank Champi,
junior student at GAR.
The conference was sponsered by
the Pennsylvania Department of
Health, Department of Public In-
struction, Pennsylvania Medical
Society, Pennsylvania Division-
American Cancer Society, Penn-
sylvania Heart Association and
Pennsylvania Tuberculosis and
Health Society.
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