The Bulletin, Vount Joy, Pa., Thursday,
July 10, 1952

THE BULLETIN

{| Published every Thursday at East
I Main Street, Mount al I
Lancaster County, Pa. |
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William N. Young, Publisher
| Fred Alberte, Editor
I John E. Schroll, Editor and Publisher |
1901 1952
\ Subseription Rate $2: 00 Per Year by Mail |
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| Entered at the postoffice at Mount Joy, |
il Pa 18 second-clas mail under the Act
Marc h 3, 1879
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Publishers’ Ass
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Editorially . ' 4
From Your New Editor
As we take over the editorial
The Bulletin, it is our fervent hope and
prayer that we will be able to fulfill our
duties nobly and that we can continue to
make The Bulletin an instrument working
tirelessly in .the interest of this area
We follow a man who has successfully
filled the editorial shoes for more than half
a century. We know we have a big job to
do. But with your help and assistance, dear
readers, we intend to exert every possible
human effort in so doing.
* * *
Our First Day
And right here and now, we must admit
that as we walked into The Bulletin office
Monday morning that it was with mixed
emotions. We were anxious. to get started,
yet we were a bit nervous. Nobody, starts
out upon a new venture without some
feeling of uneasiness, at least so it seems
to us. ;
Inside we found the entire Bulletin staff
already on the job—and that in itself was
re-assuring. A few minutes later Banker
Bomberger stepped in to wish us well, and
reins of
on his heels came smiling Sam Miller, and |
we'll admit that on that trip Sam spread
more than just a bit of weather information.
During the morning half a dozen more |
of Mount Joy's good citizens stepped inside
our office to extend us the hand of neigh-
borliness and by ten o'clock we had lost all
feeling of nervousness or strangeness.
That, folks, is community spirit, it’s the
sort of thing which makes a fellow want to
pitch in and do a slam-bang good job of
putting out a good paper. And to all who
made our first day (and it continued all
week, believe it or not) we merely say:
“Thanks!”
* >» *
Watching The Convention
Looking in on the Republican National
Convention, via TV, to us is as exciting if
not a lot nore so, than watching a World
Series. For the first time in history, all of
America this week was able to watch and
listen to the doings of a great political
group.
The excitement of convention maneuvers |
was contagious and this editor, for one, lost
a lot of good working hours glued to his TV
set. One could sense the countless under-
the-surface developments as the party dele-
gates sought to advance their particular
candidates the most advantageously.
And the best part of the whole thing was
that we here at home could enjoy the bene-
fits of a first-row seat with a lot more com-
fort than those perspiring delegates and
thousands of spectators.
* * *
Qverheated Politics
influence TV will have upon
of the next president remains
Even after the voting,
of considerable spec-
Just what
the election
to be seen.
probably be a matter
ulation. That it will have
is beyond the realm of doubt and if you
don’t think so, talk to any of your friends
on the street.
We had that in mind when we listened
to a couple of TV talks. Senator Jim Duff,
for example, taking the air to declare it
would be hard to elect Senator Bob Taft |
in Pennsylvania. A lot was said which some
of our present-day politicians might have
a hard time forgetting during the cam-
paign ahead.
With every delegate and his brother be-
ing given access to TV microphones we can
readily believe that elections can be lost,
at least, before a national convention has
so much as closed its doors.
* * *
That Mid-Morning Cup of Coffee
Did you drink that mid-morning cup of
coffee this morning?
If you did you're what
merely doing
seems to rapidly be becoming a standard |
American custom just as much as the Brit-
ish habit of pausing for their mid-afternoon
cup of tea.
We know one group of businessmen who
gather for their mid-morning cup of coffee
downtown every morning of the week. And
some of those sessions become more than
just a “pause,” so to speak. It’s fun, though.
and gets a fellow in a good frame of mind
to continue tackling his job.
For that matter, percolators are rapidly
becoming a part of standard equipment in
the back rooms of more than one business
here as proprietors learn it is better for |
friendly relations—and also to keep the
help nearer the job than if they stepped
down to the soda bar each morning—to let |
the gang brew their own Fight on the job. |
it will
a lot of influence !

1 OWL LAFFS

SE OWL
Wl
BY A
Here we are, back to work after a week
of loafing, and the very first thing we want
to do is welcome our new boss. All us “old
pieces of furniture” went with the shop,
"you know, so we'll try to make him feel at
home.
* * *
Drove out around Mastersonville to look
for groundhogs last night, and stopped to
pass the time of day with one of the farm-
ers. 1 asked him what the new building
was that he was building and he explained:
“Well, if I can find a renter for it, it’s a
bungalow, if I can’t it's a barn.” - - - - Not
bad!
* * *
1 was visiting at an east end home today
when the little shaver of the house, who is
about four, came up to me with a lead pen-
cil that needed sharpening and asked: “Will
you please sharpen my pencil? The wood
has growed up all around it.”
* * *
Georgie says he took his date out riding
and got lost on the rural roads. When he
stopped to look at a sign post, she asked:
“Now what are you stopping for?” “I lost
my bearings,” George explained, and his
date said: “Well at least you're original,
most fellows run out of gas.”
* * *
A fellow from Florin had his car stolen
while at a ball game at Philly. He summon-
ed a cop to report it and the cop exclaimed:
“When you saw the thief drive off with
your car, did you note any identifications?’
And feeling real pleased with himself for
being so smart, the man replied: “Indeed I
did! 1 saw it was a de luxe model and I
took down the license number.” - - - - That's
a real help!
* * *
The little girl who used to grasp a penny
firmly in one hand and press her nose
against the glass in a candy counter has
[now grown up and can be seen at a meat
counter with the same look on her face as
she clutches a ten dollar bill.
* * *
Yessir, a woman has to keep plugging
to get her work done these days, from the
first thing in the morning when she plugs
in the toaster until the last thing at night
as she plugs in the radio clock before crawl-
ing into her bed in an air conditioned room.
* * *
Here's a new wrinkle! My wife was sort-
ing the store order and found she had only
ten oranges instead of a dozen, so she called
the grocer and told him she ordered a dozen.
He replied: “Just part of our service, ma-
dam. Two of them were bad, so we saved
you the trouble of throwing them away.”
- - - - Darn nice of him, wasn’t it?
A local man blames the rise of juvenile
delinquency on replacing the woodshed with
a garage.
[ just found out why my colleague's wife
has such a magnetic personality! - - - -
Every stitch she has on is charged.
* *
They have a new sandwich at the shore
restaurants now. They call it the High-
| lander. They cut the bread so thin the meat
comes through. the rye. That was a
wry remark, too!
; * * *
One thing about newspaper reporting, a
fellow can go out for coffee 15 times a day
and it still LOOKS as if he were working.
* * *
There is a magic moment in every sum-
mer day. It comes at nightfall—that mo-
ment when the flies have quit for the day
and the mosquitoes have not yet gone to
work
* *
Did you hear about the local photdg-
rapher who got the wedding pictures mixed
up? The newly-weds had awaited the proofs
of their wedding pictures for a week and
when the package arrived they opened it
excitedly. Inside were half a dozen pictures
of a baby sprawled out on a rug. Attached
was a note which read: “Please state clearly
what size you want and how many?”
* *
Like we've said before,
it's the hoomididitty!
* *
It was late and the lamp was turned low.
“What are you thinking about, darling?”
“The same thing you ‘are, dear.”
it’s not the heat

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| four cents to mail

A Better
Mousetrap
By John Bulling
WAS ABOUT to doze off into an
after dinner coma, when the ad
{ first caught my

. eye, There was no
. Minute fancy display
Fiction |about it. In fact,
it was in the want

ad columns and I only noticed it
because it had been set in heavy
type. It went somehow like this:
HERE IT IS AT LAST! ! |
BEAT A PATH TO OUR
DOOR, FOLKS! ‘KILLIT'
IS GUARANTEED TO KILL
RATS AN MICE. DOUBLE
YOUR MONEY BACK IF YOU
FAIL TO KILL RODENTS
AFTER FOLLOWING THE
SIMPLE INSTRUCTIONS!
There followed a name and ad-
dress, and a request to send one dol-
lar for a genuine °‘Killjit'. The thing
was guaranteed. What could I lose?
1 took the paper to the kitchen
and showed the ad to Mary, She in-
sisted that we didn't have any mice
or rats, but I said maybe not, but
it would be nice to have a guaran-
teed mousetrap anyhow.
up a dollar bill and stuck it in an
envelope and addressed it to ‘the
Killit people and made a special
trip to the post office to mail it.
1 showed the ad to Mary, but |
she insisted that we didn’t have
any mice or rats,
Later I got to thinking about
it. I hoped that, Killit would not
be a cat—we already had one
cat, and there just isn’t room for
another one in our two by four
apartment, But then, they
couldn’t send you a cat by mail,
could they?
1 thought of a buddy of mine, Bill
Stout. He was a chronic smoker—
you know the type. The world is’
his ashtray, He had already started
several expensive fires by laying
down cigarettes and forgetting {
where he'd put them. He had seen
an ad in the paper for an ashtray
guaranteed to snuff forgotten ciga-
rettes. Just the thing for him. He'd
ordered the thing, and when it came |
in the mail he had found out why it
had been guaranteed—it had to be |
filled with water. How we'd all |
laughed at Bill for being caught by
slick advertising. |

UT how could a mousetrap be
guaranteed to kill if it didn't
do just that? No, I was safe enough
from the hilarity of our crowd. If I
bought a lemon and the story hap-
pened to leak out, I should never
hear the end of it, particularly
from Bill. I remember how mad
he’d been when I laughed at him.
But a mousetrap guaranteed to kill
—there was no way of getting
around it.
I tried to figure out what the
thing would be like. Basically a |
mousetrap “doesn’t appear capable
of much change. I mean to say, the
thi ng we all know as a mousetrap
is sound, and seems about the only
‘ay to go about catching mice short
of running after them.
That same Sunday night I had
dreams about mousetraps. I'm
one of those guys who can al-
ways remember his dreams
with crystal clarity. The mouse-
traps I had entertained in my
subconscious during the night,
while they had seemed pretty |
good at the time, were complete
washouts in the harsh light of
day. Most of them were Rube
Goldberg affairs, and none of
them would have worked,
I began to forget the beastly
mousetrap though Mary didn’t, Ap-
parently a workable idea had come
to her while she was down at the
raarket, and she had held up the |
line at the cashier's counter by de- |
manding a piece of paper and a
pencil—neither of which she ever!
has with her—and sketching out a
fairly detailed plan of the thing,
deaf to the selfish barracking of |
the pushing assortment of waiting |
housewives, She brought it home,
indignant at the attitude of the]
shopping public, and showed it to|
me. I said it would have been the
best mousetrap to hit civilization
vet, and where are you going to get |
the cyclatron to work it?
We weren't kept in suspense too |
much longer. A package came in on |
the mail on the Wednesday or |
Thursday of the same ‘week, It was |
and had cost twenty-
We ripped it |
open and out came a flat slab of
wood about six inches square and a
piece of lead pipe a foot long. And |

*Good—TI'll race you to, the ice-box.”
* * ;
After buying the groceries Saturday night |
the thought suddenly came to us that—if |
money goes to your head, at least you know
where it went.
|
A WISE OWL thing) kindly remember the Bulletin |
a sheet of printed instructions which |
started out: Place the mouse or
rat to be killed on the wooden block |
and strike it smartly behind the |
ears with the pipe. ... i
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