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B U R K H A R T ' S Town 'M TALK,
Abo»t a « Play . . . . Tke Season,
i n l the Sentiment
Rather than commit myself, I
am presenting remarks on the
Sesior play which I received from
another source. Of course, the
•writer is anonymous, and I have
copied the person's remarks as
they appear. I quote:
'The emotional scenes were car-ried
off very well. I liked especi-ally
the scene in which Margaret
Counts bewails 'the loss of her
position as waitress. Dwight Mar-tin
was nearly perfect in his role
as a business-like reporter, with
just enough restraint to make him
likeable. 'Bill' Adams' explosive,
dynamic character was made for
his part as a man-about-town
truck-driver. The performance giv
en by John Enck was little short
of amazing. His voice, however,
was not in keeping with his role,
and his well-defined gestures.
'Betty Cooper's role of a girl-reporter
was carried off excellent-ly.
Her performance in the emo-tional
scenes was very convincing'
Unquote.
My correspondent follows the
above with a few criticisms of
make-up and late entrances; most
of these faults were not noticeable
to the average spectator, and de-tracted
little from the success of
the play itself. I have thus pre-sented
the gist of this person's re-marks,
not the whole.
In a letter written to Sarah y Bacbe in 1784, Benjamin Franklin
presented his idea of the 'ideal
national bird'. He wrote: 'I wish
the Bald Eagle had not been cho-se
» am the Representative of our
Country; he is a Bird of bad moral
Character; like those among men
who live by Sharping and Robbing,
he ts generally poor, and often
very lousy.
'The Turkey is a much more re-spectable
Bird, and withal a true
original Native of America.'
In this season of the year, it it
gratifying to note that someone
has championed the glorious and
ill-used fowl, the TurkeV- Perhaps,
if our nation had accepted Frank-lin's
idea, we wouldn't eat turkey
on Thanksgiving Day.
And «till we ask, what is Love?
Is it anaesthesia,
Or is it something breezier?
Is love the frailty of the mind,
Or is it flomething none can find?
Metbtnks it Is a dizziness
That will not let a poor man
Go about Ms business.
Or perhaps the lord and slave of
all,
The sweetest thing upon the earth;
A mood, a kiss, a great re-birth,
But that's not all, that's not all.
Love is the mellow glow of au-tumn,
nature's second sun, a red,
red rose, a proud and gentle thing,
a finer wealth than riches, softer
to feel than deep velvet. . . O, love
Is easy to define, would that some
of it were mine.
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Vol. LXI Lititz, Lancaster Co., Pa., Friday, November 25, 1938 NO. 12
Comprehensive Town Plan
Will Be Discussed
By Council Tuesday
Lititz is expanding at such a
rate that it is in real need of a
comprehensive town plan which
will plan for the future both in-side
and just outside the borough's
boundaries, Paul W. McCloud, lo-cal
landscape architect and town
pianner, emphasized here today.
The need for a comprehensive
town plan will be discussed by the
Lititz borough council at its meet-ing
next Tuesday evening.
A comprehensive town plan des-ignates
the areas which are best
suited for the various functions of
the town. These are residential
areas, business areas, industrial
areas and areas for public use.
The Shaw Plan which is now be-ing
used has practically outlived
its purpose in that future streets
do not relate to the existing typo-graphy,
traffic, drainage and mat-ters
of that sort.
The advantages of a comprehen-sive
town plan are working out thq
traffic flow, such as keeping the
major traffic on certain streets and
out of certain residential areas.
Another important factor is to get
future streets built accc/ding to
contour and typography of the
ground which eleminates excessive
construction costs in cutting and
filling.
This also works out the drainage
problems and is a basis for any
future sewerage disposal system.
It would place the correct grades
of every new future street within
the borough limits for the beneSt
of future builders.
It would eliminate excessively
deep lots and alleys which are not
needed. It would have the least
number of streets with the maxi-mum
number of building lots on
any given area of land, therefore
the construction of the streets and
their maintainance would be less.
It is impossible to intelligently
plan unless that planning is done
on a comprehensive scale, Mr. Mc-
Cloud explained. But the actual
construction of streets should not
take place until there is a definite
need by a sufficient number of
buildings or homes.
If streets are designed correctly
there will be less construction costs
and less maintainance costs. As to
individual property owners there
will be fewer delinquent taxes in
areas properly planned than in
other sections for the reason that
property values remain at a good
level.
In sections where planning is not
done, whole sections become unde-sirable
when industry moves in or
some less desirable change is made.
As a result property values drop
accordingly. In sections properly
planned, however.. this does not
occur.
A town plan such as is being
advocated by Mr. McCloud is not
an elaborate affair or scheme but
is definitely a good business policy
for the borough to adopt.
Local Sportsmen
To Leave Sunday
A group of Lititz sportsmen will
leave here Sunday morning for
Cedar Run, Lycoming County,
where they will spend next week
deer hunting. The group will in-clude
the> following: Owen Her-shey,
Paul Doster, Lloyd Bomber-ger,
Dervin Runk, Harvey P.unk,
Stanley Reit, Roy Long, Floyd
Rader, Luther Sharp, Lloyd Hoff-man,
Hiram Stohler, Cy Hotter
and Abram Hershey.
Breaks Both Arms
Harold Shaak, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Harold Shaak, Maple street,
fell while swinging on a rope be-neath
a tree on Tuesday afternoon
and broke the bones in both aw.s
near the wrists. His right hand
was also badly bruised. Dr. D. C.
Martin reduced the fracture.
HUNTERS SHOULD
MAKE REPORTS
Hunters of Lititz and vicinity
were urged today by the I.ititz
Sportsmen's Association to hand
in their game reports. The re-ports
can be given either to Abram
Hershey, secretary of the associ-ation,
or filed at Rader's Cigar
store, Bast Main street.
oEfn Steerntiaoirn PClaasyt at Party Here
Dr. and Mrs. Herbert K. Coop-er
entertained the cast and com-mittees
of the Senior play at a
drop-in party on Friday evening.
The following attended, Ida Kath-ryn
Posey, Charlotte Herr, Alma
Nolt, Mildred Balmer, Charlotte
Weaver, Jan DeRocco, Margaret
Counts, Jean Eberly, Betty Miksch.
Lois Burkholder, Marion Bender,
Betty Cooper, Mr. and Mrs. Rich-ard
Heistand, Omar Bucher, Wil-lard
Adams, Dwight Martin, John
Enck, Richard Longenecker, Aaron
Hines, Lisle Weidman, William
Hornberger, Ray Herr, Martin
Kutz, Jack Barr, William Maney,
Herbert Cooper and William Stark.
Albert Ebbert, leader of the Lit-itz
High school Band has promot-ed
several members of the Junior
band to the senior organization.
They included the following boys,
Carl Pfautz, Roy Neideigh, Richard
Weitzel, Patsy Mastromatteo, Eric
Kephart, Cletus Forney, Harold
Zander, Lawrence Young, drum
major. The band numbers forty
two members.
Temperance Speaker
J. RAYMOND SCHMIDT
TDory S pLeeaakd eHre re On Dec. 1
Frozen Food Plant Here
Will Be Opened Saturday
ANNOUNCE CARRIER
EXAMINATION AT LOCAL
POST OFFICE JAN! 21
If yon think it is cold outside to-day,
just plan to visit Lititz' new-est
industry, the Lititz Frozen
Pood Service plant on North Alley
Saturday.
At that time, J. M. Leed, owner
of the new plant, will formally
throw open the doors to the pub-lic.
One of the heavily-Insulated
compartments in the new building
is maintained at a temperature of
from 10 to 20 degrees below zero-just
a bit oolder than is ever re-corded
outside—we hope.
• According to Mr. Leed, employes
will escort visitors through the re-frigerated
locker plant all day
Saturday. And just to insure any-:
one from catching cold after step-ping
into a 20 degree below zero
temperature, he plans to serve
steaming, hot coffee to all who
visit the plant. .
The plant is the latest scientific
development in preserving meat
and vegetables for months at a
time. The plant is a real boon to
householders and farmers who will j
be able to store meats and vege-]
tables for months and then be able
to take out what they want. The
food will be found to have been
kept in perfect condition.
A substitute clerk-carrier exami-nation
has been announced at the
local Post Office, be held on
Jan. 21st. All applications must
be on file with the Civil Service.
Commission at Philadelphia not
later than Nov. 30th.
On account of the early date of
the closing time for the applica-tions,
anyone interested should ap-ply
at the local Post Office at
once.
J. Raymond Schmidt, one of the
best known authorities on moral
legislation in the country and an
outstanding speaker for the temp-erance
cause will speak at The
Church of The Brethren, Center
St., Lititz, on Thursday, December
1 at 7:30 P. M.
Mr. Schmidt will speak here un-der
the auspices of the National
Voice, national temperance waylcly
of which he is associate editor.
The speaker is also general sup-erintendent
of the National Civic
League in Washington, D. C.
Mr. Schmidt is a graduate of
DePauw University and has spent
a life time in temperance lecture
work. He has served as special
lecturer for the National Prohibi-tion
Committee and for -the Inter-collegiate
Prohibition Association
An interesting feature of Mr,
Schmidt's talk will be a discussion
•of moral legislation now before
Congress.
IRna Wisee l$fa3r2e7 7 Drive Here
Hope Tardy Collections
Will Increase Sum Sev-eral
Hundred Dollars
The Lititz Welfare Board an
nounces the amount of $3277.50
collected in the annual Welfare
drive. Eighty solicitors with
eighteen captains have worked the
past ten days and not 11 districts
have sent in their complete re-turns.
"We hope this amount will
be increased several hundred dol-lars",
Mrs. Carl Workman, secre-tary
of the Board stated.
The industrial team, with C. M.
Woolworth, as captain reported
$1841.25, which is considered very
good.
The Board set the budget at
$4000.00 this year which is $500.00
dollars below last year. This is
to cover community nursing, 'com-munity
relief and hospitalization.
If any persons are unsolicited
would they kindly see A. L. Dou-ple,
the treasurer, Mrs. Workman,
the secretary or any of the Board
members, John Hershey, president,
Elmer Eby, Elam Risser, M. C.
Demmy, B. M. Leaman, Mrs. Mary
Dengate, Mrs. Margie Arntz ov
Mrs. Frank Hunter.
Local Artist
DOROTHY S. HABECKER
WEnislle mPblaley On Dec. 1
RSteoardeys HFoerr e Yule Season
Toy-trimmed Windows and
Shelves Give Business
Section hristmas Tone
TDrraifftfsi cD Aisfrtueprt 10 Inch Snow
PShfaouptpze Ursr Tgeos Mail Early
As the Xmas season approaches
the Postmaster Robert E. Pfautz
again requests all mailers to,
"Mail early and often, pack par-cels
well and tie and wrap secure-ly".
They also call attention to
the mailing of small cards and
letters and ask that people refrain
from mailing cards and letters less
than 2 % by 4 inches, as they re-quire
special handling and are
more apt to be delayed.
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DELPHIAN CLUB MEETS
Mrs. Norman Badorf entertained
the Delphian Society at her home
on Friday evening. Miss Mary
Huebener, the president, presided,
and sixteen members attended.
An icey gale which swept a ten-inch
blanket of snow into drifts
from two to five feet high, yester-day
gave Lititz its most wintery
Thanksgiving Day in the past 80
years.
This morning most of the rural
roads on all sides of Lititz were
closed by hige drifts while traffic
between this borough and Lancas-ter
was greatly slowed down and
with buses running as much as an
hour late. A number of persons,
many of whom had attended
Thanksgiving football games near-by,
were stranded here last night
when the gale reached its heighth
and were reluctant to start out
again this morning.
Starting with a light rain and
sleet the storm chainged into a
real nor'wester when temperatures
dropped as low as 19 degrees here.
Dozens of motorists who had failed
tor take precautions found their jars
frozen up with the result that local
garagemen were jammed with busi-ness
yesterday and today.
Returning home late yesterday,
more than one local resident found
himself unable to reach his own
garage because of the drifts and
had to pitch in and shovel. While
the wind reached gale proportions
here, officials of the telephone com-pany
reported very little difficulty
In maintaining service.
A number of minor automobile
acidents Were reported in this vi-cinity
but with no serious casual-ties.
(
SNOOPS
On Saturday evening, Mr. and
Mrs. Phillip Seppi, of Brunnervllle,
purchased groceries totaling $1.80
and put them in the front seat of
their car, parked on North Broad
Street. They visited another store
and upon their return the grocer-ies
were gone. They hurriedly
reported the theft to Chief of Po-lice
Kreider.
"Are you sure you put them in
the right car?" Kreider asked.
"Why, certainly we did" they re-plied.
However, a little later as Mrs.
Arthur Rosenberg got into her
car, one the same color and parked
near where the Seppi car was, she
discovered a large bag of grocer-ies
in it. When she began upbraid-ing
her husband for buying an
order of food when he knew she
was going to the store, Rosenberg,
who had heard of the "robbery",
realized what had happened. He
notiled Kreider, who on Monday
notified Mrs.' Seppi. The latter
could hardly believe that she and
her husband had made such a mis-take.
Considerable interest has been
aroused among music lovers of
Lititz in the coming concert to le
presented by the six-piano ensem-ble
of the Musical Art Society in
the McCaskey High School, Lan-caster,
on Thursday, December l.j
The ensemble includes Miss Dor-.
othy S. Habecker, of Lititz, well-known
for her musical work here
and in Lancaster. Miss Habecker
is a graduate of the Lititz High
School and the music department
of Linden Hall Seminary. )
Miss Habecker also taught and
studied music at the Settlement
Music School, Philadelphia, of ( which the Curtis Institute is an
outgrowth. At the Peabody Insti-tute,
Baltimore, from which she
later graduated, Miss Habecker re-ceived
special instruction on the
piano from George F. Boyle and
Pascale Tallarico, both nationally
famous piano artists. j
Since her return to Lititz Miss
Habecker has done considerable
playing and concert work in addi-tion
to instructing pupils here. j
The six-piano ensemble was or-'
ganized four years ago and has
given annual concerts in Lancaster.
The ensemble also has appeared in
Wilkes Barre and Norristown
where they have been accorded
fine receptions.
Other members of the ensemble
are Mrs. Ray B. Hall, Mrs. Stanley
Burroughs, Miss Marie Gast, Miss
Carolyn Diller and Mr. Henry B.
Howell. The assisting artist will
be Mrs. Virginia Straube Johnson,
soprano, formerly of Lancaster.
Lititz awoke this morning ti
find that the Yule Season has
made its advent.
Store windows were filled with
toys and gifts of every description,
gayly garnished with the charac-teristic
red and green laurel and
poinsettas. Inside were counters
already piled high with the hun-dreds
and hundreds of novelties,
household appliances and others of
the countless yuletide gifts.
This year's gifts, judging from
the pre-Christmas display which
greeted the eye this morning while
a bit more modern and a bit new-er-
appearing, are not radically
different from those of last year.
While toy «departments were filled
with tricycles, wagons and train
sets, the toy merchants continued
to pay a good bit of attention to
the adult and presented a new line
of the more sophisticated games.
Toys depicting soldiers and guns
appeared somewhat overshadowed
by miniature airports ' and toy
automobiles despite that the world
is in anything but a peaceful state
of affairs.
Displays of Christmas cards of-fered
the greatest contrast with
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AFitn Le ePxrionggrtaomn Reunion
Clayton Zartman of Lititz was
elected president of the combined
reunion of the Pleasant View Lex-ington
school and Union School,
Lexington, at the meeting held on
Sunday at the Lexington Union
Sunday school Chapel.
The other officers elected were as
follows, Paul Bomberger, Lititz,
vice-president; Miss Hazel Eslin-ger,
Lititz, secretary and the Rev.
Harvey Markley, Lexington, treas-urer.
Prof. D. Luke Beamesderfer gave
the address and spoke about the
consolidation of the schools and
(Continued on page four)
BWohyisl eS tGuidryls HBoumilde EShcoenlvoems ics
One West Orange Street woman
became so excited over the politi-cal
campaign just ended that she
appeared at the fire house the
Tuesday before election and tried
to cast her ballot. Yes, she came
back and did vote later.—
t
Housewives who cannot put up
that extra kitchen shelf when such
is needed and husbands who "get
stuck" when they select cloth for
a new suit will be practically un-known
among the future adults of
Lititz if a program launched by
the Lititz High School gets the
desired results.
An example of this was seen
Wednesday afternoon when a class
of approximately 50 young men of
high school age gathered in one of
the classrooms and quite soberly
learned the ins and out$ of telling
good cloth and material as com-pared
with the poorer grades.
The class odd as it may seem Is
the Boys' Home Economics clas
and while home economic hi/a
hitherto been confined to the girls,
the boys already have made such
strides that the class is to be a
permanent one, Demmy;, principal
of the high school, indicated. Tii ?
class Friday was addressed by
Robert Groff, of the Groff and
Wolf Store, Lancaster. But don't get
the idea that the boys in taking up
home economics have the jump on
the girls. The girls, Mr. Demmy
explained this year launched a
Girls' Manual Training class in
which they are learning how to
put up shelves, repair screen doors
and do any of the other many car-pentering
jobs which hubby so oft jn
neglects to do on time.
And the girls are making such
strides that the hubby of the fu-ture
probably will never be called
upon to do the many household
chores he. now so often neglects.
The Art Club Is making stage
sets for the plays which are stud
ted in the junior and senior class-es.
The club has 30 members. It
is divided into 5 groups of 6
members each. It is the duty of
' group to complete one scene.
"DER HAWSA BARRIO"
De onner wuch hut en mon
g'frocht eb ich mit ehm noch em
Hawsa Barrig gae wet. Ich hob
g'sawt dos ich daed mit gae. Mer
sin doh nunner un es Hawsa Bar-rig
shule hous. Doh hen se so
movi pickders g'hot und en Coocha
demonstration. Des hut en Fartel
dawler ga'kusht fer ni. Ich hob
ga'denkt des set ordlich essa gevva
fer en Fartel. Mer sin doh ni i
der awtitorium, und dart worra
de coocha und de pi, yar oil! sarta
dos draw denka kunsht. Se hea
g'sawt dos mer sedda uns he hucka
noh daida se uns de pickders wei-sa.
De pickders worra awe gude
yar mer hut se haara kenna
shwetza in de pickders. Es airsht
wore fun geil, shaenna geil dos
ga'jumpt sin und raeca g'shprunga.
Es necht wore olles singeri, und
es necht wore fun dem Amos und
Andy dos uf em radio sin olii ovet.
De worra ovver awe gude, ich hob
mich sheer he ga'locht iwer era
dumheida. Es ledsht pickder hut
ga'wissa we se de coocha bocka.
Ach des hut em ga'wiss hungrich
g'mocht, des iss en grose ga'bi wu
de coocha und pi ga'bocha warra.
Es shoffa awe en lot leit dart, des
gait net dos we fer olders. Ich
glawb net dos de mem mae so
shtarig rum feesla kent we se -
missa in der beckeri. Bis des
pickder ferbi wore hov ich sheer
net worta kenna fer de coocha
fer'sucha. Ich wore awe net der
aensicht dos hungrich wore. Wu
des movi waasa ferbi wore iss der
mon wos ich derbi wore uf
g'shtunna und hut g'sawt tsu meer,
wun mer coocha wella daida mer
besser gae. Ower se hen uns noh
g'sawt dos se daida uns der coocha
und „Koffee un derseitz br'.rr'. , n -
wore'na denk ungsht mer daida t*u
feel essa wun mer un de coocha
het kenna. *Ich hob a'mohl ae
shitck gessa und mi Koffee ga—.
drunka und hob oils ga'waart ter.
nuch mae, ovver se hen net mae
rum ga'brocht. Se hen g'sawt do«
wun mer nuch mae wella missa
mer se kawfa. Ich hob net ga—
maint dos des arrick shae wore«
es hut em yusht awe g'feerd und
hungrich g'mocht. Der Koffe«
wore awe gude, ower yusht ae
kuppli ful. Se hen ga'wiss feel
Koffee g'hot dart wore der graesht
Koffee sock dos ich noch g'saena
hob. Ehr wore ferleicht feer foos
und ae holbs hoch und tswae foop >
braed. Ich maen se hedda v .ns
duch nuch ae kuppli ful : mae
gevva kenna. Nuch dem wit
mer besser wun mer un so v <«i
demonstration gaena, noh essa mi «>
unser nocht essa da'hame. Owt y^.
so iss es evva de dawga, mei
grickt nimma feel fer en fartei
dawler.
Wu des waesa ferbi wore he
ich amohl a'wennich ga'gassed
ae pore mon dos awe dart wor
ich hob g'sawt es waart en shun
wos mer yusht grickt hut fer e^
fartel, noh hut en mon g'sawt dos
des wore fer geldt mocha fer de
Karrich. Noh hob ich g'sawt sell
iss besser, ower ich daid duch
maena se hedda mer nuch as
kuppli ful Koffee gewa kenna.
"Tsu Em Burkhart"
Ledscht wuch hut der BURK-,; HART awennich meen g'shwetzed
fun unser PBNNA. DEITSCH
shwetza, des hut mich a 'WEN-NT
CH haes gricht unnich em col- '
lar. Ich daed a'mohl gleicha
shwetza mit dem karl und ehm
a'wennich ous laega dos unser
ga'shwetz yusht so gude Iss dos en
lot fun dem holb linicha ENGLISH
ga'shwetz dos se rum blabbera de
dawga. Yar ich sawg awe dos un-ser
deitsch awennich Otis gorde
iss, ower wun der a'mohl en pore
so yunga buwa und maed haerd
shwetza noh waes mer net eb des
English odder Yiddish si <sull.
"DER DEITSCH"
—Home-made Sausage, 28c Ib.;
Pudding, 22c lb; Beefsteak, 30c tt>;
Hamburg, 19c Ib.; Frankfurt», 26a
Ib.; Whole Chucks, 19c and 2ic
Ib. LUTZ—Phone 9181-W. We
Deliver. «ay.