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Barnstable County Commission
ers are being requested ut tlteli
meeting tomorrow (Friday) at till
Courthouse to Include In their bud-
get an appropriation of $100,000
for all-Cape air spraying for gypsy
moths. Although this will Increase
by $1.00 npproximntely the tax rate
of each town, It will relieve the
towns or u part of their direct tux-
atlon for this purpose. Senator
Stone is to ask for legislative
authority for such an over-all
county tax , und by including it in
their budget, the Commissioners
will be anticipating the passage ol
such a bill.
Selectmen of all the Cape towns
are being urged to notiry the Coun-
ty Commissioners of their approval
and to call for the inclusion of
$1(100,000. in the county budget.
Their messages shall reach the
Commissioners at the Courthouse
by 1
1 o'clock on Friday.
Plans for Over-All
Cape Moth Spraying
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Hardware Lumber Building Supplies
2 YARDS TO SERVE YOU
S Hyannis Yarmouthport
Tel. Hysnnls 700 Tel. Barnstable 1S-2
Cape Cod a Cosmopolitan Community
"More than most playgrounds of comparable size, Cape
Cod has an intellectual atmosphere. The Scientists who (lock
to Woods Hole, the artists who till Provlncetown 'a narrow
streets, the theatre folk in Dennis where the Cape Playhouse
offers its summer repertory, and the literary associations in
Chatham where Joseph C, Lincoln wrote his sea stories—all
contribute to an unmistakable Massachusetts culture."
"Dennis is growing up. "
"I am more and more impressed by the growing colony of
summer visitors who are becoming permanent Cape Codders. "
"Cape Cod has suddenly come of age. "
So run the comments and statements that have been made
over the past few years.
With the constantly increasing influx of personalitie s .
representatives of the various professions and business lines ,
and natives of widely-separated geographical regions, who are
becoming permanent residents of Cape Cod , their multi plied
and concentrated influence is hel ping to make Cape Cod the
cosmopolitan community it has veritably become.
The canal has. of course, made Cape Cod an island. Its
island character is more than physical. It is a miniature world
in itself, its social life is varied and quantitative. Three en-
gagements in one evening, following one another in clock-like
sequence, are not a rare experience. Organizations and com-
mittees planning their functions and doing their work ure
legion. Nei ghborhood get-togethers are friendly and frequent.
When you live on Cape Cod, your neighbors are Cape Cod-
ders to be stire, but with backgrounds of Host on . New York
City, Philadelp hia. Chicago, and all points north , west , and
south, and even of forei gn countries. Your neighbors and
friends may be native Cape Codders or they may hail from the
big cities or from country places very different from Cape Cod.
like Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont .
Those who attended the Cape-wide service last Sunday
afternoon in Hyannis were proud of their Cape. An impressive
gathering centering upon the world figure who gave the ad-
dress, a woman hi gh in the councils of the national Baptist
organization, who served as one of the delegates from the
United States to the recent World Council of Churches Assembly
at Amsterdam, who represents the United States on the Execu
tive Committee. She is a resident of Craigville.
The final service of the Lenten season last spring at the
historic West Barnstable meeting house had as speaker a promi-
nent educator and clergyman , a retired college president. He
is a resident of Osterville.
In South Yarmouth lives a clergyman of note , who has
come into our midst from the Middle West , the former dean
of a large city university chapel.
In political affairs we are represented in the state senate
by one of our citizens who made his mark in business circles
in a large Massachusetts city. He lives in Oyster Harbors.
Centerville is the home of a man who heads for the United
States an important- committee in the United Nations crusade
for needy European children.
Hyannis claims as home the active executive secretary
of one of our largest national humanitarian organizations.
A Pennsylvania couple have come to live in South Sand-
wich and are there proprietors of an inn , which is growing
in fame. One of this couple has been conducting back in
Pennsylvania one of the largest accredited schools of dancing
in that state, a school which taught music and drama as
well. Classes" for the Cape in ballroom dancing are being
contemplated.
In the field of art , Cape Cod can boast an Art Association,
with a headquarters in Hyannis. As one citizen remarked ,
"There is a great deal of artistic talent on the Cape. " Surely
this is the vehicle that will bring it out.
There is no lack of dramatic ability which is finding many
channels of expression. In the summer, plays abound in the
theatres which dot the Cape from end to end. And severa l
excellent amateur groups are active the year through.
These individual examp les have been selected as some with
which we are familiar locally. They can he dup licated many
times over and other Cape Cod communities can say as much.
Cape Cod has, indeed , come of age. Its atmosphere is cos-
mopolitan. It has its own culture , its own flavor. It hits an
"air ".
Cape Cod is a pleasant place to live . It has ils own climate ,
its own weather.
Its people are friendl y, nei ghborly. When one is in trouble ,
it seems all one 's friends and nei ghbors come forward spon-
taneously to take charge of the situation. Some one, who lives
alone, has a fall. For a period of weeks, until she can get
around herself again , nei ghbors take turns supp ly ing meals
on a tray, sleep ing in the house at ni ght , doing the errands,
and generall y "looking after " their friend as if she were a
member of their several families.
To sum up the situation , it would seem that living on Cape
Cod not only has the advantages of country living, which is,
after all , why peop le come here to stay ; hut that it has also
the finest advantages of metropolitan living, for , when one
lives in a large city or metropolis, one values the ability to
mingle with interesting and divergent personalities.
And, when one is seeking those things Cape Cod country
life cannot yet supply, such as a concert or a theatre , we are
not isolated, but can easily make the journey to a city . Trans-
portation facilities for this bid fair to improve radically.
PEN POINTS
Mountain Guide : "Don 't go too near the edge of that
precipice; it's dangerous. But if you do fall , remember to look
to the left , you 'll get a wonderful view."
—Industrial News Review.
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By F. B. A F. P. Close
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IRYING IV. CARTER. Manager
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In the far wide reach of the woodland
Crowing wild and free—
Where the doe und the buck yard in at night
There will I seek a tree .
A tree that's a titling symbol—
A tree that will surely bring
All the wild sweet breath of the forest
To where Christ mas carols sing.
I will deck my tree in silver—
With makeshif t ice and snow ,
Then load ils twigs with such goodies
As all the wild birds know ;
That they may share in the feasting
And sn will also he
Clad , in this glorious season
That we celebrate with a tree .
—Hattie niossoni Fritze, Osterville
A Tree For Christmas
anil advice were always sought ut
the beginning or any Important
undertaking.
In 1752 there was it change in
i iilemlura. Great Britain anil her
colonies adopted in that year the
Gregorian calendar, already in usa
in continental Europe since 1700.
The Gregorian calendar was a re-
vision or the oiii Roman calendar.
Prior to adopt ion of the Gregorian
calendar. Great Uritalu huil been
using the Julian calendar, So much
confusion resulted from differing
dates that tbe change was made.
On September .'!. 11T>2 , all the peo-
ple jumped to September 14, Thut
must huve seemed a Strange ex-
perience. And the legal year was to
start from then on January lirst ,
Where it had started in March.
Wateh Night Services are a very
old custom. Almost from the time
that January lirst became New
Year 's, churches have held services
to usher the old year out und the
new year In. Secular celebrations
of New Year 's Kve are also old
in custom.
Philadelphia has its Mummers
Parade always on New Year 's Kve.
The earliest settlers In Philadel-
phia were English and Swedes.
While the Knglish kept the Mum-
mers' tradition, the Swedes were
in the habit of masquerading in-
formally on New Year 's Eve. It was
customary tn cxit-mi hospitality to
these masquerailers, The two cus-
toms merged before the time of the
Revolution. The parade continues
to this day mid houses open for
festivity and refreshments.
President George Washington
held a reception for the public on
New Year's Day in his home at
Philadelphia, after his first inaug-
uration. Philadelph ia was then the
capital ot the nation. The presi-
dent' s reception is a custom , then ,
from the beginning of the Republic.
It Is also the tradition in our
own state of Massachusetts lor the
governor to hold a public reception
on New Year's Day.
No wonder we all observe the
New Year coming, with all this
background of custom and tradi-
tion. At any rate, 1949 is a few
days old now and off to a good
start , for all that I can see.
Your loving
Aunt Jane
Toivn or Uarnstuble
Cape Pod
January ii. 1949
Dear Theodosia:
We usually do considerable think-
ing ut the time of New Year 's,
and some make very serious resolu-
tions for Improved conduct.
Be that as it may, there are
superstitions and old sayings and
customs Surrounding the turn of
the year. For example: —
In Scotland started the custom
of New Year kisses. Just at 12
o'clock midnight, wherever you
happened to be, you kissed the
person nearest to you us a New
Year greeting, l' t> to 1901 In Scot-
land no work was done, on New
Year 's.
Over England and Scotland, in
the village of the plains and high-
lands, ancient New Year supersti-
tions still exist.
Itls considered unlucky to wear
old clothes on the New Yeur; bad
luck falls on a house if anyone
goes before someone has entered.
If the lirst comer—"lirst foot ," tile
natives call it—be a man , good IUCK
will bless the house; If a Woman
or a fair-haired inun , the luck is
evil. So widespread is this belief
that in many villages the dark-
haired men of the community make
it a regular business to go from
house to house to "lake the New
Year in. "
In Herefordshire , at midnight,
the girls rush to the spring. The
one who gets the first drink, or the
"cream of the well," is •sure ot' u
handsome husband.
Unlucky, too, is the good woman
who gives away a light on New
Year 's day. Where a brand goes
out , the evil fays come in. The
most tender-hearted woman will
see her neighbors shiver in a lire-
less house rather than give away a
light on the New Year 's.
For the past 5(100 years, New
Year 's has been observed as either
a civil or religious holiday. At all
periods it has been a day of re-
joicing and of gilt giving. History
tells us that in Babylon , .
'1000 years
before the Christian era, the day
was sacred to their solar god.
The month January is named for
the two-fuced goil Janus, the god
of the beginning of things. His aid
A Letter From Aunt Jane
To Her City Relations
by Clara J. Hallett
This is your local station , 213 Ocean , No K.
Wo now a new year has begun—1949 ; 365 new days and
nig hts ; thousands of hours to improve our condition , to enjoy
; or waste, depend ing largel y upon ourselves.
I So muny hours to sleep or wake;
I So many hours to shiver or shake;
So muny hours of ruin or snow
So muny hours with nowhere to
! e°-
1 So muny born and so muny die;
One by one as the days go by.
So many hours to wutch and wait
For water to boll or cake to bake.
So muny hours of toll and heat
So many hours to talk and eat;
Hours of sad news, hours of pain
Hours that never can come again.
So many hours to say, Hello-
Over the phone to friends we know.
! So many hours to be happy and gay
1 Why do we waste so many away ?
Some wonderful things have hap-
pened in the years that have
passed. Travel on land , by sea and
In the air have reached almost
a state of perfection. "Carriages
without horses shall go—and acci-
dents 1111 the world with woe."
Thut looked like either a silly
dream or a miracle once, but it all
came about , and we seldom think
of it as anything new or strange.
I remember how people laughed
and said , what a joke it was when
John T .Trowbridge put out his
poem , "Darius Green and His Fly-
, ing Machine. " What a silly idea
thut was to be sure 10 or 50 years
ago. To think people could fly
around in the air. Why whatever
goes up must come down , hut Da-
rius Green and his flying machine
was a forerunner of things to come,
like the lirst mention of Television ,
which was regarded as a perfectly
impossible thing ever to come to
pass—seeing people who are miles
away. It does seem fantastic.
We have become used to talking
with people thousands of miles
away—that's an every day affair.
We are beginning to believe that
all things are possible. As they
say, "You see it happen—and see-
ing is believing." But not always.
How about acts of legerdemain
when the hand is quicker than the
eye? We think we see, but we
never see what we think we do.
I will quote from that old poem
so familiar once—
"An aspiring genius was Darius
Green,
The son of a farmer , age fourteen.
His body was long and lank and
lean
Just right for flying as will be seen.
Darius was clearly of the opinion
That the air is also man 's dominion
And that with paddle or lin, or
pinion .
We soon or late shall navigate
The azure as now we sail the sea.
The thing lookH simple enough to
me."
So said Darius, and he had the
right idea as time has proven to
us.
"The birds can Hy and why not I?
Must we give In , says he, with a
grin;
Thut a blackbird and phoebe
Are smarterln ' we be?
Just fold our hands and see the
swallow
And blackbird and cat-bird beat us
holler—
Just the little chattering wren
No bigger 'n my thumb, know more
than men?
No, I can 't see what 's the use of
wings to a bumble bee,
For to get a livin ' morn 'n to em.
Ain't my business important as
his'n?"
Yoa would think so, but he start-
ed to make his machine. He stitch-
ed and tinkered and hammered
away until at last the thing was
done. "The greatest invention un-
der the sun ". "Now , says DartuB ,
"Hooray for some fun." But alas,
birds have a motor of their own.
They don 't have to stop at a gas
station or garage for repairs. Da-
rius had made wings, but no power
to guide or move them except may-
be the wind. So he was soon rioun-
dering .
on the ground.
Somebody Is always around t
laugh at your failure. A voice called
out , "Say, Darius , how i|(, „„
like flying '.
'" "Well , says he, "| ip. ,
Dying well enough , but there am>t
such a thundering sight or [„.
when you come to light."
The first one who thinks or
new ideu seldom makes much or n
but we see what his invention ij
to. Even now when planes neem
almost perfect , they go up, |
m
they also come down with gr™
loss of life. All Inventions , unto
ships, trains, anything that iroves
'
by u mechanical device , will i,ttV(1
its success or failure from time ti
time, but someone will always |
)e
trying to make new things.
Have you read about "The K>e.
doozle?" Runs on juke box PHM,
pie. It cuts prices oa groceries \t«
Started In Memphis , Tenn., by ciut.
ence Sanders, who started i>i8.
gly Wlggly Stores 32 years ago,
The Keedoozle is almost automatic,
It is quite an elaborate system;
about a million dollars was spent
to start it rolling.
The customer takes a key that
has a roll of paper tape attached
Sample of goods to be sold are ills
played. For each purchase she puts
the key in a slot , presses a hut-
ton, the purchase Is recorded on
the tape. Makes a hole when com-
plete order id punched on tape,
She takes It to cashier's desk; in
a rew seconds, Keedoozle methods
takes it to waiting customer, it. I
eliminates shoplifting and cutirl
down help very much. This cost is
passed on to customers.
Mr. Saunders expects these
stores will be all over the country
in a few years and his fortune
will be made. Key does all. The
age of magic is on the way. There
is even talk of heated sidewalks
How nice for the Cop on his heat.
no more cold feet for him.
-- Radio Beams -
CROSSWORD PUZZLE
Horizontal
1To bleat
4 Hen-sized.
flightless bird
8To mend
11Cow (U. S.)
12 Christmas
13 Guido's high
note
14 King of
Bashan
18Long-handled
Implement
17 Substance for
prolonging
life indefinite-
ly
19 Falsehood
21 Pouch
23 Drunkard
24 Small valley
26 Animal with
nonretractile
claws
28 Midday
31 Exlamation
of disbelief
33 Large snake
35No
36 Interjection
38 Famous
American
plant breeder
41 Note of scale
42 To decline
44 To coagulate
45 Uproar
47 Movable part
of a table top
49 Moisture
51 Square of
three
54 Dry
56 Supporting
rod
58 Bush
59 Veranda
62 To stain
64 To exist
65 Bird of prey
66 Measure of
land
68 Large stove
70 Timely
71Check
72 Night preced-
ing an event
Vertical
1Hobgoblin
2 Since
3 Timber tree
4 To press into
a mass, as
dough
5 Maiden loved
by Zeus
6 Tiny
7 Misfortunes
B Underofficer
In a church
9 High priest
of Israel
10 To light
11Venturesome
16 Esker
13 Electrified
particle
20 Mischievous
sprite
22 Mender of
shoes
25 High-hit ball
27 Capital of
Portuguese
India
29 Rowing
implement
30 Pheasant
brood
32 To embrace
34 Conjunction
39 Daughter of
Loki
37 Man 's
nickname
39 Color
40 Related
43 Black
vitreous
pottery
46 Insect egg
48 Brimless
red cap
50 To extend in
breadth
52 Illustrious
53 Site of "the
tree of life"
55 Former Rus-
sian title
57 At
59 Colloquial:
father
60 Hawaiian bird
61 Particle
63 To earn with
difficulty
67 Japanese
measure of
length
69 Four
The Harnstahle Playground and
Recreation Commission announces
that work has begun on Kalmus
Park. Brush is being cleared , with
the good foliage being saved , and
the area transformed Into a park.
On the completion of this work ,
plans will be made for a road.
Work Begun on
Kalmus Park
Development
.\l;tss ;u-nuscn.s ciosetl ine yeui
1918 with the best motor vehicle
highway traffic safety record in
the history of the Commonwealth.
Not since the year 1910 when the
total number of motor vehicles
on our highways was a little more
than 100,000 have so few Individ-
uals met death on our highways.
The lives snuffed out in motor ve-
hicle highwuy traffic accidents dur-
ing 1948 are 100 fewer than they
would have been if deaths had oc-
curred with the same frequency,
in relation to the number of motor
vehicles and the total mileage
rolled up, as in 1947. The total
number of deaths is less than (14%
of the number (681) in 1941 when
we had 120,000 fewer motor ve-
hicles on the highways , and only
slightly more than 47% of the
number (921) in 1934, when we had
:iui) ,00() fewer motor vehicles on
our highways.
The Honorable Rudolph F. King,
Registrar of Motor Vehicles , when
usked to comment on Massachu-
setts' tremendous improvement in
highway traffic safety stated em-
phatically that it was due to the
enthusiastic cooperation of motor
vehicle operators, pedestrians,
newspapers, radio stations, busi-
ness, civic, fraternal groups, and
.safety groups, as well as to the
efforts of the judiciary, police and
his entire department.
Registrar King offers his per-
sonal appreciation to each and
every individual whose contribu-
tion made this Improvement possi-
ble ami extends to all the citizens
of the Commonwealth sincere
greetings for a Happy and Safe
New Year.
May 19-18's accomplishment spur
us on to even greater efforts dur-
ing 1949.
1948 Had Low High-
way Death -Toll - - -
Registrar King
At Cape Cod Hospital
Jan. If , a daughter to Mr. and
Mrs. Prosirio J. Plna, Marstons
Mills.
Jan. 5, a daughter to Mr. and
Mrs. Herbert L. French, Yarmouth.
MYSTERIOUS SHIPS
Seafarers gathered in the club-
rooms at the Seamen's Church In-
stitute of New York , like to tell
tales or La Belle Rosalie, the Fly-
ing Dutchman , the Cyclops, Koben-
havn , and other ships that have
disappeared. The Ship Mary Celes-
te, found sailing with no crew on
board , is also discussed. Latest
on the role of phantom ships is
the 22-foot converted sailing life-
boat "Chance", skippered by John
Dow, who sailed the little boat to
the Solomon Islands. Excited na-
tives in the Solomon Group report-
ed seeing a vessel under full sail
pass by their island without recog-
nition. She made the tricky chan-
nel but eventually lay, heeled
over , on the beach at Isabel Is-
land.
Authorities Investigated, found
Captain Dow dead in his bunk , his
last entry made two weeks pre-
vious, with the course set for the
Solomons. The skipper must have
had a premonition of his death, and
confidence In his ship to bring him
to port—for the flag had been set
at hall' mast, and so entered in
the log ! And the tiller was lashed!
FEET FOR FEET
It takes about 60,000 feet of silk
or nylon to make a pair of four-
thread woman 's hose.
BIRTHS
IT'S FUN!
Try your hand at
working out this
puzzle now! Look
for this feature
every week.
PAY INCREASE REFUSED I
After discussing the matter in I
several sessions, the Barnstable I
School Committee in their meeting I
December 30th voted a reply to I
the Salary and Statistics Board of I]
the Teachers' Group that the re- IJ
quest for an increase in teachers ' A
salaries or $400. could not be grant- I
ed at this time. ¦
1 CAN ERECT SHOP 1
lino J. Miuiui of West BarnsVv I
I ble has been granted permission I
to erect a building In which to con- J
duct an Auto Body and Repair '
]
Shop business on his land. A hear- I
ing before the Selectmen held a I
public hearing on December 31, 1
Town of Barnstable I
Activities I