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TALK CAN BE CHEAPER----
Telephone subscribers served by the Dallas office of
Commonwealth Telephone Company have a decision to
make before December 31 and they should make it
promptly-whether or not they favor the elimination of
“toll rates between here, Wilkes-Barre and Kingston!
For years those who have worked in Wilkes-Barre or
have family and social connections there have agitated
for the elimination of tolls.
Others have been indifferent, probably because they
did not realize the tremendous advantage of no tolls which
would permit 50,000 telephone subscribers in Wyoming
Valley to call them without
extra charge and visa versa.
The elimination of overtime alone would in many in-
stances make up for the slight increase in basic rates!
~ Many people who now hesitate to call Wyoming
Valley because of the tolls, might be surprised how much
more useful their telephones
are eliminated.
would become as soon as tolls
If you are convienced that the elimination of tolls will
be to the advantage of the great majority in the Dallas ex-
changes, you should vote
friends and neighbors to do likewise! « .
Remember-a vote that,
: against selimigation of tolls.
immediately, and ask your
is ‘not, cast will be counted
This is the a you
have been ‘seeking! Now Badly Mountain Protective As-
sociation and Commonwealth Telephone Company make it
possibie for the people to speak. You can make it possible
for them to speak freely!
Over the years, Commonwealth Telephone Company
has lived up to its obligations-spending vast sums to im-
~ prove its service and make ours one of ‘the best rural tele-
phone systems in the country!
It will have to spend thousands of additional dollars
on new trunk lines to Wyoming Valley to make toll free
service possible.
It now extends to you
the courtesy of determining
the kind of service you want. The answer rests entirely
with you!
. . . Safety
DISAGREES WITH OLD TIMER
The Dallas Post:
In regard to the old timer (D. A.
Waters) in your issue of November |
29, 1962 (in his Rambling Around)
says that the Lehigh Valley RR did |
not detour trains via the (Pumpkin
Line) Bowman's Creek Branch.
He is badly mistaken as I can well
remember when the LVRR detoured
trains on the Bowman's Creek
Branch around (1902) or
They had station agents on 24 hours
daily duty at Stull where I lived at
the time.
Albert F. Stitzer
97 James Street
Shavertown
BUILDING SUGGESTION
Shavertown, Pa.
Dec. 3, 1962
Mr. Risley, Dallas Post,
The
visors are asking for suggestions for
a site for the proposed township
building which they say will not
cost the taxpayers a cent, which
may or may not be correct.
The Shaver Theatre would be a
good location as it is close to the !
highway and has a 131 ft. frontage
on Main Street. It has a 3-phase
electrical system, large septic tank
~ and steam heat, storage rooms and
meeting rooms as large as would be
needed for the public.
The supervisors say they have an
option on the Holcomb plot on
Pioneer Avenue. When asked about
the theatre they said it would cost
too much to fix it up. If the pro-
posed new township building is to
cost $40,000, it will take an extra
$2700 to buy the lot, plus drainage
cost as there is a creek running
through the Pioneer lot, plus many
incidental costs such as grading,
fees, fixtures and furniture.
So it will in the end cost the tax- |
payers much more than the $40,000
Federal and Township
counted on.
‘Many questions were asked of the
supervisors at the meeting as some |
were concerned as to location, cost,
"ete. and did not understand why a
veteran was not” put on the com-~
(1903). |
Kingston Township super-
funds |
Valve . ...
| mittee to select a site as it was the
| township veterans who gave their
| building and raised money for it.
It was said at the meeting that
| the new township building was to
| be built like a private home so it
| could be disposed of if it became
| necessary to move closer to the
| new highway. But the time to get
| closer to the highway is now.
Dan Shaver
HAD GOOD TURN-OUT
| Dear Mr. Risley:
On behalf of the guests and
| Board Members of the Old Ladies’
|Home I wish to acknowledge with
. grateful thanks the article: you
| carried in the Dallas Post on
| November 15th, telling about our
annual Donation Day held the next
| day. :
It was well written and gratify-
ingly effective, for we had a fine
turn-out. =
Thank you most sincerely.
Marion Woodward Payne
Mrs. Bruce Paye,
Publicity Chairman
IF ENOUGH CARED
32 Carverton Rd,
Trucksville, Pa.,
December 4, 1962.
| Mr. Howard Risley, Editor
The Dallas Post,
| Dallas, Pa.
| Dear Howard:
| Again I eypress my appreciation
to you for ‘the Dallas Post. This
time I refer to the recent discussion
| of the possibility of doing away with
the nececssity of paying charges on
telephone calls to Wilkes-Barre
and Kingston.
Personally, I like a newspaper
I'that takes an active interest in the
| common every day affairs of its
community, not only by reporting
{ what has happened, but by inform-
| ing its community what could hap-
pen if enough people carede
|i If we should get the privilege of
I calling toll free to Wilkes-Barre and
|'vicinity, it will not make much dif-
| ference in the affairs of the world
| at large but it will be a real change
I for the better in my world.
Only
Yesterday
Ten, Twenty and Thirty Years
Ago In The Dallas Post
It Happened
30 Years Ago:
Dallas Post ran an appealing pic-
ture of a bear cub with his nose
buried in a bowl of warm milk, with
the caption, Safe for Another Year,
as bear season ended and deer sea-
son began.
Folks were discussing renaming
the Back Mountain, adopting the
title Lake Suburban Region. Folks
still complain about the old estab-
lished name, but Back Mountain has
hallowed by time. Renaming it would
be like changing all the delightful
names of roads to avenues, a desire
to snatch at so-called culture.
Huntsville Reservoir was filled to
overflowing after several dry years.
Dallas Borough high school was
host to Luzerne County, drama tour
ney.
Bullhead catfish and minnows
were stocked in Luzerne County
streams,
President-elect FDR promised a
25 percent tax cut.
Tea was 7 cents a quarter pound;
rice, 3 pounds for. 10; baked beans,
3 cans for 13 cents; chuck roast, 10
cents.
It Happened
20 Years Ago
Edward Kent, Lehman school di-
rector, resigned from the brokerage
firm of Green, Ellis and Anderson, to
live on his farm at Edgefield, S. C.
Second Lt. L. C. Davis, son of Post-
master Irwin C. Davis, Shavertown,
completed officers training at Fort
Benning. i
Six tons of discarded auto tires
were shipped from Dallas for the
war effort. Noxen and Alderson
freight offices also received many
tires.
Game hunters in the area contrib-
ets for service men in cold climates.
Fred Lamoreaux was the first to give
his deerskin.
Joseph Hardisky headed Anthra-
cite Chapter, Future Farmers of
America.
War Ration book was expanded
to include coffee as well as sugar.
Shortage of teachers was being
felt, as service demands and war
industry efforts increased.
American soldiers were in the
Congo at Leopoldville. A picture
showed the Stars and Stripes flying
over a base in West Africa, with one
of the first units to land standing
at attention.
Servicemen heard from: Howard
Culp, Fort Monmouth; Glenn Ehret,
Camp’ Perry; Poster Sutton; Camp
Shelby; Walt Lewin, Dorr Field;
Howard Miller, Texas; Sandy McCul-
loch, England; James Nulton, Texas;
Jonathan Jones, Lowry Field; Rob-
ert Anderson, ‘Gulfport Field; Eiy-
mond F. Sutton, Gowan Field, Idaho;
Howard Carey, England; Robert B.
Price, Gulfport; Robert Misson,
Camp Craft; Roger Williams, Camp
Carson; Clarence Montross, Louisi-
ana; Elwood Renshaw, Miami; Wil-
liam Knecht, Arkansas; Elwood
Davis, with ‘the Marines; Howard
Kyttle, Cheriton, Va.; Joseph Sudi-
mek, Fort Dix; William Jennings,
ton Bean, Manhattan Beach.
liam R. Ferrey. Lenchen Coughlin
to Frank Townend,
A freight engine struck a large
deer near Noxen. The crew brought
it in on the caboose, in search of a
game warden, found no warden,
took in on to Coxton Yards.
It Happened
[0 Years Ago
The new Dallas Post Office was
opened for business. Posing on the
front steps for a picture were Post-
master Joseph Polacky, Allen Mon-
tross, Glenn Morris, Josephine Os-
| trum, Fred Youngblood, Milton
Perrego,
Hertzdorf, Dorothy Mcore,
seph LaVelle. Absent was
Drake.
Dr. Robert Bodycomb was reelect-
ed president of Dallas Borough
school bo ard; Dan Shaver headed
Kingston Township: Thomas J.
Moore, Dallas Township; Charles
Williams, Lake; Franklin Patton,
Noxen; Laing Coolbaugh, Lehman-
Jackson Jointure.
Lt. Louis Kelly was injured, his
co-pilot killed when a helicopter
plunged into the sea in Honolulu.
and Jo-
‘Sheldon
lat 68.
| - Mrs. Edith Howe, 51, died at her
{home in Shavertown,
| Back Mountain Business Associa-
| tion elected Donald Evans president.
| Married: Evelyn Rogers to William
C. Weaver. Mary Claire McKenna to
: James Hodge. Phyllis Sutton to John
| Snvder. Helen Flannery to Paul Gal-
| lagher. Myrtle Ann Pascoe to Har-
| old Hoover.
| Public response to the Dr. Sher-
| man Schooley Memorial Fund was
gratifying.
Mrs. Lillian Bronsen Oliver, 76,
died.
Bertha Hutson, 65, Franklin
| Street, was released by death.
| What greater responsibility could
a lot of atmosphere as well as being |
uted deerskins to make warm jack- |
Kenneth Hessler, Cherry Point; Vel-y
Married: Doris Elva Long to Wil-|
Edward Buckley, Otto
I. R. Elston died of a heart attack |
w
taken over by the proponents of the
great ' big school districts. First,
“Bigger is always better”; secondly,
“The more it costs the better it is”.
Even the heretofore highly re-
spected Pennsylvania Economy
League has swallowed the bait,
hook, line, and sinker.
A recent release says, “The effect
of reorganization is basically a
transfer of emphasis from the muni-
cipal boundary line to the child,
wherever he resides”. Now this is
utterly ridiculous. ‘There are many
places right in our own area where
the exact location of a line is very
questionable, | sometimes passing
| right through a house. There are
now adequate provisions in the law
under which pupils may, and many
do, attend school in a district across
a boundary line. There is so little
emphasis on the boundary lines
that sometimes pupils attend in the
wrong, district for years. And in
the end, the only significance of the
boundary is which district is fi-
ancially responsible, :
“The size of school enrollment
and the degree of local financial ef-
fort in most of the 70 districts have
severely limited educational pro-
grams.” ‘With an arbitrary boun-
dary line separating the pupil in one
local district from a pupil in an-
other, educational prospects depend
not primarily on a student’s ability
and industriousness, but on which
side of the line his family resides’.
Another quote, “Merely eliminate
school district boundaries for taxa-
tion and administrative purposes,
seeking to pool the enrollments and
financial resources in order to pro-
vide a better program at a more
reasonable per pupil cost”. Now
this is p ure New Deal. To make it
bigger is going to provide more
money to spend for a better pro-
gram, at the same time reducing
pupil costs. It is good politics, but
makes no schools.
Now the whole is equal to the
sum of its parts and no amount of a
regrouping, stirring up, or shuffling
|is going to change the number of
| units, either of pupils or resources.
A cook can drop a few eggs in the
| bottom of a bowl, use an eggbeater
a few minutes, and walk out with
a bowl full of an attractive mixture
apparently much improved-but there
is no more food value in it.
In one release we are told that
schools will be vastly improved,
usually stated as to ‘‘program”,
whatever that is. In the next we
are promised that no new expensive
schoolhouses will be required.
Nothing is said about the trans-
portation expense in districts five or
more times as big as at present. It
is. even promised that tax ‘rates”
bwill be lowered in scme present
‘districts, including our own, when
in another release we are accused
of having low expenditure per pupil
now. “Rates” are supposed to be
reduced ~ when assessments are
equalized. More probable is that
‘present low rates will be raised
| with little reduction anywhere.
To get more money for schools
requires either of two things, or
maybe both of them: get more
money from the State, or raise local
Wr m——
stranger in town and I suspect some
| of the old timers (what with the
| constant rising from former pas-
| tures, of new suburbs) is the absence
of street signs, in and about Dallas.
There are just enough of these
rather limp guides to encourage the
| unsuspecting into a maize of un-
identified streets with just a samp-
ling of house numbers in evidence.
One good solution for this problem
| has been seized upon by some prog-
| ressive Rotary or Kiwanis Clubs in
| other communities.
On the subject of signs: The ap-
proaches to our area communities
could be more in keeping with com-
munity pride. Since the architecture
of several community buildings in
Dallas, such as the Library, The
Dallas Post, the forthcoming Post
Office and others appear to endorse
a colonial atmosphere, why not erect
large, attractively designed village
signs in a colonial pattern? Some-
thing is needed that will replace the
rather sick, inconspicious ones now
almost obscured by even less attrac-
| tive “erections. o
the dull routine of murder and may-
hem usually associated with the lot
of a newspaperman, Such was the
case ‘this past week when the writer
was assigned the task of delivering
a charming young lady to the Giant
Market in Luzerne for instructions
| on how to serve as Miss Top Value.
| Miss Elaine Kozemchak, a recent
beauty contestant in a local com-
petition was introduced ‘to Mr. Jack
Hoden, manager of Giant Market.
| She was Informed that on Thurs-
{ day, December 6th, she was invited
to share in the ribbon cutting cere-
meny initiating the opening of the
Top Value redemption store next to
the Giant, and to be there to greet
| first day arrivals. It'is my impres-
Two New-Deal axioms have been
Rambling Around
By The Oldtimer — D. A. Waters
IMPRESSIONS.
by Robert G. Aldrich
One thing that is rough oh a
An occasional assignment lightens
taxes. The whole endeavor of tax
equalization, changed assessments,
etc. was instigated to save money
for the state as provided in former
laws, and to increase local revenue.
Tables - released show only ‘two
districts out of 70 have over 4000
pupils, the desired figure, and it is
‘proposed to add pupils to both of
them. The same tables show that
the promised cheapness is not found
in larger districts, nor ‘excessive
charges in smaller districts. And
the pie-in-the-sky improved pro-
grams are never described any-
where, only promised.
Our expenditures were about the
same as Forty Fort for the good
reason that both districts have
about the same kind of people and
probably watch their schools about
as closely. When the writers start
to compare us with Hanover, they
at once convict themselves of ignor-
ance of the whole matter. Back
Mountain School Boards for genera-
tions have been made up of care-
ful and honest directors. Some may
+ have been lacking in good judgment
sometimes. But in Hanover Town-
ship, several successive school
boards have been ousted in court
actions for violations of the law,
even some appointed by the court
in previous proceedings. If we spend
about $200. per pupil, annually, less
than Hanover, give credit to good
management and not to size of dis-
trict. Hanover's big coal company
revenue is dwindling.
About thirty years ago, Will Man-
naer, head of a Taxpayers Associa-
tion financed by the coal companies,
went around making speeches on
school expenses. He always pulled
out of his pocket a small box of
colored wax crayons used every-
where for beginners. In those days
they sold for a dime in any variety
store, sometimes less. School boards
bought them for ahout a cent a box,
maybe less. But some school dis-
tricts paid ten cents a box for them
right along, year after year, not
little districts either.
Bigness does not always mean
savings. You might get 100,000
tablets slightly cheaper per M than
10,000. But the small districts
could, "and did, order delivered
where wanted. In the 100,000, lot
you provide storage, stock clerks, a
distribution truck, etc. And in the
end probably lose money.
As of 1960-61, we speat a little
less than the state and county
average per pupil, received $4. per
pupil over the county average in
state appropriation, and collected
about $60. less than the county
average in local taxes. We ranked
in the lowest quarter in market
value of property for -each pupil,
with $14,266. © Our “'1962 audit
shows liabilities’ over 75% of the
assessed valuation of the entire dis-
trict. They propose to level this
out by raising the valuation, which
looks geod but pays no bills.
And the local papers quote some-
one in a fecent public meeting,
“Local taxes in this area are PAIN-
FULLY low.”
Some English ‘teaching must be
incompetent, to say the least.
a
to mies in the reception of people.
These people are fairly important.
1 know of no church that has sur-
vived without them. The solution
lies in a concerted program that re-
sults in several church families fos-
tering visiting families from the
first time they come to the church
until there is certain evidence that
the new family is well integrated
into ‘the whole group.
Speaking of churches, three-year-
old Thrombosis threatened the quiet
of a service recently and the
spouse of the writer promptly took
the offender outside the sanctuary
to administer some much needed
woodshed psychology. We find this
much more effective than the cur-
rent trend toward letting a youngs-
ter express himself to the point that
future conduct may place him in an
anti-social class.
It’s a pleasant situation when you
have good meighbors but it leaves
an even better impression when
the landlord generously “invites you
to share Thanksgiving dinner with
his family. We are indeed thank-
ful to the Milo Bouerlys of Shaver-
town, for this generous gesture.
Hospital Auxiliary
‘Will Meet Tomorrow
Shavertown Branch, Nesbitt Hos-
pital Auxiliary, will meet Friday
afternoon at 1:30 at St. Paul's
Lutheran Church, Shavertown, for
its Christmas Party.
Mrs. Gordon Wolverton will be
soloist, accompanied by Mrs. New-
ton Ness.
Mrs. Leon Beisel, president, asks
members to bring money instead
of exchanging gifts. She also re-
quests unwrapped gifts, to be sold
December 11 at the Christmas Sale
in the Hospital lobby, with the
value written on each gift,
Mrs. Charles Maxwell and Mrs.
Lyman Lull are co-chairmen of the
| a newspaper ask for than that of |Sion that Mr. Hoden could have !serving committee made up of the
| changing a few people’s world for
[the better and what greater reward
| could it hope for than their appre- |
| ciation?
You have my respect and appre-
ciation.
| Sincerely yours,
| Rev. Grove Armstrong,
| done worse — much worse.
| following ofificers
and committee
{ Visiting churches in the area, ¢ne (chairmen: Mesdames Leon Beisel,
gets the
fervor is not lacking.
| appointed houses of
to include well-oiled machinery for
| properly functioning organizations.
impression that religious | Sheldon
Bennett, Frederick Eck.
Moden, well- | Harvey Kitchen, Clara Letts, Fred
worship scem | Malkemes, Archer Mohr, Jack Paul-
ing, Charles Perkins, Harry Rymer,
Charles Sieber, William Thomas,
I One vital point most of them seem | and William Wright.
hn eae
Better Leighton Never
by Leighton Scott
HUNTING TROUBLE
Monday's mist was laden with
flying lead, and an ordinary drive
down the turnpike rivaled a jump
over the Berlin wall for guts.
Roadside clearings resembled
sylvan used-car lots, as a cast of
thousands stumbled along in an
armed costume party, trying like
blazes to gun down their share of
what was reputedly a great deer
“crop’’.
Speeding down the highway to-
ward home with a pitiful-sized buck
cocked jauntily over the right
fender like a green beret, a man
could feel like a man for a lousy
two weeks.
Yet most of those who got their
animal were just plain lucky, first
to run into one, and second, to hit
him, ”
The woeful state of facts is that
your average hunter stands an in-
finitely better chance of bringing
down an over-sized human than
any other game. If he doesn’t bag
him in the woods, he stands a good
chance of dropping one in a passing
car.
The Pennsylvania Game Commis-
sion continually warns not to wait
under a bush or such circumstances
as you might look like a deer to
another hunter.
Now, I say its pretty ridiculous
to tell hunters to stop looking like
deer. They can’t help it. They
just appear that way to other ham-
handed incompetents like them-
selves, who never blow the lint out
of the old .35 from one season to
the next.
Well, deer-sized rifle ammo runs
into money, and money doesn’t
grow on trees. So there's no sense
throwing it away during the year
when there's no open season.
I say to this, most of your ‘“hunt-
ers’ stand as good a chance bring-
ing home a deer by dancing around
a ceremonial fire praying for the
animal's demise to the sun-god.
And for those who have learned
how to hit a deer with a gun, those
who have picked up the art of dis-
tinguishing him from a man, or a
fawn, on sight, and then aiming for
a lethal area, wouldn't number
enough men to hold off the Goan
army. : >
Add to this the number of hunt-
ers who suffer self-inflicted wounds
and coronaries, and you've got a
problem sport.
NEW MAGNUMS
While we're in the gun depart-
ment, we might note that Dallas
Borough police have become what
appears to be the best armed force
inithe; county, 2
Five officers, . including ' Chief
Honeywell and Assistant Chief Ti-
tus, are wearing brand-new .357
Smith and Wesson Magnums. A
shell from one of these guns will
powder an 8-inch square board, or
penetrate a car door at medium
range.
Retired Baker Dies
At Trailer Camp
: Philip Kline, 72, retired baker, was
| buried Thursday from Rosenberg’s
suffering a coronary occlusion in his
trailer at White Birch Trailer Camp,
Tunkhannock Highway, the day be-
fore.
A widower, Mr. Kline had lived at
the camp about five years, and was
a wonderful neighbor, according to
Mrs. Conrad Hislop, owner. He baked
bread and pastries for everyone
there.
A son, Jacob, Wilkes-Barre had
been visiting his father regularly,
and found Mr. Kline’s body when he
came to take his father to the doc-
tor. Mr. Kline had not been feeling
well for several days.
Dallas ambulance was called; but
the crew, Don Bulford and Les War-
hola, found Mr. Kline dead, and
called the corner, Richard Disque.
Disque said that the elderly man
had had a history of heart condition.
He estimated that Mr. Kline had died
around noon.
Deceased was alone at the time
of death, He had evidently been feel-
ing all right that moraing, because
Mr. Hislop heard him in his trailer,
with his radio on.
Mr. Kline was a member of Bliiai
Jacob Synagogue and various other
Orthodox and Jewish organizations.
Surviving are the following child-
ren: Samuel, Floral Park, Long Is-
land, N.Y.; Harry, Kingston; Albert,
Cleveland; and Mrs. Albert Light,
New York; seven grandchildren; sis-
ters, Mrs. Anna |Soloman, New York,
and Mrs. Sarah Miller, Silver Springs,
Md.
Deceased was buried at B'nai
Jacob Cemetery, Darling Street,
Rabbi I. M. Davidson, assisted by
Cantor Aaron Horowitz, officiating.
Shiva was observed at the home of
Harry Kline.
Cliffside Avenue
| Is Being Improved
Residents of Cliffside Avenue,
Trucksville, were pleased over the
weekend to see new drainage pipes
installed to take care of the de-
plorable condition of their street.
Excavation was done by Tyrell
Construction Company. Lawton
Culver, supervisor of roads, was
in charge of laying pipes.
This - will eliminate flooding of
the roadway which has aroused
residents.
| Funeral Home, Wilkes-Barre, after |
They will now seek - an | 5
improved thorofare to their homes. |
From—
By
experiments,
4 a.m., that's for the birds.
it means tender loving care,
An ice-cold bottle propped on
For the matter of that, the
ground tiger-steak.
in the middle of the night, will be
examination. .
know that you love him?
A long time ago there was a
front. As circumstances
end.
search.
substitute for what Nature intended that baby to have.
clearly expected the baby to be sheltered by a loving arm, held
close, permitted to luxuriate in warmth at 4 a.m. instead of being
stranded in a crib with a cold bottle, or even a warm bottle.
Next thing we know, the recommendation will be for a cold
bath, and don’t bother to change those sopping pants, the baby’s
own heat mechanism will adjust to circumstances.
And patent baby foods in neat little jars will be superseded by
DALLAS, PENNSYLVANIA
Pillar To Post...
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Nobody will ever be able to convince this old bird that a small
infant is just as happy with a bottle directly from the refrigerator
as with one warmed to a pleasant temperature. !
Maybe they're getting results with the preemies in the latest
but my reaction is that the preemies should not be
obliged to waste their precious body warmth in heating up that
formula, and that the new technique is to save work for the nurses.
And as for handing a four-month old infant a frosted bottle at
Nobody seems to tumble to it in this
space age that a bottle isn’t just a bottle, it’s an expression of love
and affection. T.L.C. they mark it on the charts in the hospital, and
A baby is not nourished by a bottle
alone, but by everything that goes with it . . . the wrapping in a
warm blanket, the rocking chair, the drowsy crooning of the mother
who is holding the bottle, the tucking away of the sleeping infant in
a warm nest, dry and comfortable. ’
a pillow, with the mother making
tracks back to her own bed, is an extremely poor substitute.
bottle itself is an extremely poor
Nature
Fifteen years later, that baby, fobbed off with an ice-cold bottle
the subject for solemn psychiatric
“Have you always shown this boy enough affection? Does he
Is he secure in his niche in the family ?”
And the answer will come, “Of COURSE he is loved. We always
kept right on top of the latest advancements in child care, bottles
directly out of the refrigerator and everything, And as soon as he
got two teeth that meshed, he got his tiger-meat regularly.”
I still say that babies are people.
Do you like your coffee directly out of the refrigerator ?
How. about that beef gravy, want it hot or cold ?
man’ who wasn’t going to permit
his child to be handled. Handling, he said, was outdated.
So he built a nice little box with thermostatic controls, and a
roller towel arrangement in the bottom. The infant, completely
naked, was immured in the box, viewed lovingly through the glass
warranted,
ground out at one end, replacing itself from a clean roll at the other
the roller towel effect was
The article on the latest thing in child care in 1916 did not
state whether the baby got its bottle iced or not.
father had not, at that time, the benefit of modern scientific re-
But the anxious
Sister Miriam’s latest volume of
poetry, “Love is Enough,” and Dr.
K. Claude Cirtautas newest book,
“The American College Girl,” will
be the main attraction at an auto-
graph party to be given at College
Misericordia some time after the
Christmas holidays.
At this function copies of both
books will be on sale. Tt is to be
hoped ‘that an earlier volume by
Sister Miriam, “Woven of the Sky,”
will be available, for the delight
of those who have wever read it,
or who have given it as a special
own bookshelves.
Sister Miriam, until recently head
of the English Department at College
Misericordia, founder and editor for
eighteen years of the “Thinker’s
vigest,” has the lit of framing
short poems of universal appeal, as
perfect and crystal clear as a dew
drop, as heartwarming as a mother’s
smile, a restatement of the eternal
verities. Her sympathies are as
wide as the blue horizons, her love
as boundless as the skies.
And these priceless things she is
| able to share with others.
No one could ever be quite the
same after reading her poems.
They - are treasures, to be savored
one at a time. Writing is the most
revealing thing in the world, a
complete index to character.
College girls who have been
privileged to study under Sister
Miriam have had an ‘experience
which is indeed unique, a personal
contact with a woman who is pre-
eminent in her field, yet humble
about her accomplishments. A
woman who can be hurt, but who
can also forgive without reserva-
tion, because perfect love engend-
ers perfect understanding.
Howell Rees, a former editor of
the Dallas Post, sums it up in a
letter written to Sister Miriam:
Dear Sister Miriam:
You will not remember me, for it
is a long time since I was editor
of the Dallas Post, speaking each
week to your English class about
journalism.
I could not forget you, because
I have the copy of “Woven of the
Sky” in which you inscribed a
message much more generous than
I deserved.
My respect for you . . . and my
memories of your keen wit and the
wonderful anecdotes you told...
has been renewed, because the
children of my old and dear friends,
Durelle and Katherine Scott, of Dal-
las, gave me for Christmas a copy
of “Love is Enough,” which I have
been enjoying tonight.
I am confident that your humility
can withstand my praise for the
gift but have not saved it for their |=
rare and delicate perception always
apparent in your poems. I marvel
at your understanding of life and |
people and their feelings.
The world needs more of your!
poetry.
Sincerely :
Howell E. Rees.
In April of this year, the Dallas
Post published an article heralding
Dr. Cirtiautas’ newest book, “The
American College Girl,” a sym-
pathetic portrayal of college girls as
he knows them from his wide ex-
perience in teaching, his percep
tions sharpened by former experi-
ences as a refugee, and his delight
in normal American young woman-
hood | heightened.
Herb is no cynical evaluation of
youth," no use of rare deviation as
bait for a hook to lure the prurient
minded.
In his introduction, Dr. Cirtiautas
writes: “I have presented the
American college girl as I saw her
during my ten years with her,
either as her teacher or as one
who happened to meet her by
choice or by chance.”
In a foreword, George N. Shuster
writes, “Perhaps no one except a
man with a European background
could manage to judge this part of
the American scene so wisely.”
Dr. Cirtiautas, Professor of Hu-
manities
for six years visiting professor at
several American colleges including
Harvard, after a wide experience in
teaching on the Continent where
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Sister Miriam And Dr. Cirtautas
Will Show Books At Special Tea
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at College Misericordia,
he was affiliated with the Univer-
sity of Erlangen, took as the sub-
ject for his first book, the depths
of lonelines and nostalgia to which
the exile and the refugee is ex-
posed, and the social problems en-
gendered.
“The American College Girl” is
the .product of an author who has
now fallen upon happier times, an
analytical but sympathetic book
which recognizes growing pains,
realizes that college girls are half
child, half woman, but always with
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a feeling for the underlying dignity oo
which is the foundation stone of
growing up. :
Dallas Men Advance
In Societe 40 & 8
Two Dallas mein, members of Lu-
zerne County Voiture 296, Grande
Garde de la Porte of La Societe des
40 Hommes et 8 Chevaux, were ap-
pointed officers in the society at
the recent Northeastern Conference
by "Grande Cheminot Frank Aigel-
dinger.
Joseph Schneider, 125 Davenport
- Street, was appointed Grande Garde
de la Porte, and Thomas Reese,
126% Franklin Street, advanced to
Sous Grande Cheminot.
At the Scranton conference Henry
Edelhoff of Luzerne County Voiture
was endorsed as Grande Chef de
Train, and Chef de Gare John Ka-
marauskas gave the welcoming ad-
dress.
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