(Mass.) Transcript Telegram, Friday, August 11, 0 0 0 0 0 00 waysides around Holyoke. "Chicory blue, mist of the last, late dream, Blue of our longings, foam of forgotten waves Color of the hot June sky when the tree engraves Eternal shadows on the water's gleam. This is the blue that the heart remembers forever The essence of hope the vague and the secret endeavor Captured in color, in beauty forever set. Cross to open field. See, over the grass, Under the morning wind the chicory runs, As calm and as cool as the curving sky of glass As quick and as warm as the heat of a million suns." Mr.
Abbe interprets color with the soul of the artist. "Heat," "The Dust "Feather on Snow" "The all have their sense of color. However it is in the first group of poems that Mr. Abbe expresses his human experiences and reaches through the beauty of color into the souls of men as they come to the surface through the agony they are undergoing as they change from the lovers of peace to the purposes and master of war and especially the closeness, to home that is growing the lives of these men called away from their homes. Take the initial poem "Letter Home" "When the bell in the white steeple rings, I am in the ringing.
When the brown thrush in the green wood sings Hear me in the singing. For all the beauty that you taught In those first years, in the long growing, Lives in every realm of thought Like clean wind high blowing, Like deer that from a darkwood springs; When the long war comes to end, Within me as in the worlds around, The peace you gave, the love you send, Long held in fertile ground, Will blossom on the air of home In the steeple light, in the thrush's song Hold fast, dear hearts, keep courage warm. I shall not stay too long, too long, And when I stand with you again I shall be nearer, out of pain; Steeple and thrush and hills in the storm, Familiar soil and friendly rainAll these will 'shine with clearer light Because of absence and long night." 0 CHICORY Strange how few poets ever seem to see The country roadsides, blue with chicory! I used to think the sky had opened up And drenched the blossoms From its giant cup; They were "blue daisies" in my childhood's hour Before I knew the name of any flower Except the starry daisies, powdery white, In the cool silence Of a moon-lit night. Common and plentiful the chicory grows, A pest to farmers in its lacy rows, A lovely sight to everyone who knows How precious and how rare blue blossoms are, How sought-for and how cherished, near and far, Save where they grow abundantly and free And bear the common name of "chicory." No wayside flower has ever been to me So lovely as the wild blue chicory. -Eleanor G.
R. Young in the Christian Science Monitor. 0 It is hot weather and ciphers do get dropped. The Oracle tried to tell of 800,000 English homes either wiped out or much damaged by the robots. column got it down to 6000.
The fact is that nearly a million homes in England by this time need the things that give shelter and warmth. In many of them everything lost. Hence the old -warm clothes campaign by the British War relief. 0 0 Harold J. Kennedy, Holyokeborn author-actor, whose "A Goose for the Garden" is presently at the Blackstone theater at Chicago, went bicycling with Blond actress Choo-Choo Johnson, one of the stars of the show, Sunday, with disasterous results to Miss Johnson, who tried without success to climb a brick wall on her bicycle.
It was the first time she had ventured forth on a two wheeled rig since childhood and the cuts and bruises she received kept her out of the cast for several days. 0.0 Carrie Jacobs Bond is 82 years old today. It is being made an event by Hollywood people where the great song writer went to live in the shadow of Hollywood bowl many years ago. The author of "A Perfect "I Love You "Just A-Wearyin' For "When God Puts Out the "Life's and scores of other prime favorites carries on strongly in the fifth decade of her busy life and her home, called "The End of the Road" is a place where the unhappy and discouraged go often to get material for a new beginning. 0 0 There is a handsome crop of tobacco ready for harvest in the Connecticut valley now.
In a day or two the early crop will be ready for the cutting. and by next week the harvest should be in full swing. It has been a zling growing year, with doubtful a call squash are actually pumpkins, so from that angle it's really better to buy new seed every year. Then you can blame the seed company if you get a cross. Beans, peas, tomatoes, and peppers are plants which are self pollinated and you could, if you wanted, save seeds from these.
But here again you'd run the chance of carrying over some disease that you didn't recognize. So all in all I think you're wise to depend on the seed man for your source of seed. By the way this will be my last letter for a couple of weeks, so here's hoping that you keep ahead of those bugs and blights during August." THE ORACLE Toepfert Prefers 30-Day Sick Leave For Holyoke Cops "The answer is 'no' to Ed Seibel's suggestion that sick days be limited to 10 days for the police department," Mayor Toepfert said bluntly today. He objects to plan, which is in effect in the postal department, because policemen are on call 24 hours a day and he believes they deserve 30 days sick leave with pay. mayor revealed a hint of what his survey on the records of the department will disclose when he said that in 1943, 26 members of the 81-man police force, asked for no sick time.
Seven others had one day off, eight had two days, seven were out three days, three were sick four days, and five claimed five sick days, This leaves 25 policemen unaccounted for, presumably because their days off were in the higher brackets. Previously, Mr. Toepfert remarked that only six or eight policemen have given the department a bad name for time off. GUARDS REMOVED FROM PHILADELPHIA TRANSPORT PHILADELPHIA, (AP) The Army removed all guards from the city's trolleys, buses, subways and elevated trains today (4.52 A. EWT) and -announced these vehicles will without guards in the future, except "from 8 P.
M. until morning" when guards will be assigned to each. The latest action marked the first step toward the eventual restoration of lines to normal operation by the Philadelphia Transportation following the six-day transit tie-up. BUS SERVICE RESUMED ON FIVE LINES PROVIDENCE, R. (AP)Following a meeting between Rhode Island Labor Department officials, union representatives and workers, service on five bus lines of the New England Transportation An Co.
resumed late yesterspontaneous walkout of drivers which spread during the day tied up operations on lines serving Providence and Bristol, R. Fall River, New Bedford, Cape Cod, Boston, Worcester and Fitchburg, and Hartford, Conn. W. H. Loeber has been named eastern district manager of the electric appliance division of the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Co.
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ment. Bring referral card, etc. HEGY'S! DYERS CLEANSERS 519 Dwight St. Children Here, Polio Suspects, Are Well Again Children having suspected cases of infantile paralysis in the Springfield area. have been admitted to the Springfield Isolation hospital at the rate of two a day this week.
There were 26 children confined to the hospital yesterday, and two more were admitted this morning. A number of children haye already been released, but the admittance rate is much faster than the discharge rate. Up to now, 31 cases have been admitted to the Isolation Hospital and three to the Springfield hospital. There has Holyoke child in this group, but he was sent home after a week's observation in which two tests were made negative. and In both all were there found have to been be about a dozen suspect cases in Holyoke, none of which were definitely proven as polio cases and all of which now are recovered.
Two cases in Springfield are still undiagnosed, while all the lished as polio. All children others have definitely been, estabadmitted have been suffering from high fevers and a stiffening of limbs. Three or four have definite paralysis, and one is quite serious. This child has been taken to the Shriners' hospital for special treatment. The Kenny heat treatment is being used on all the cases.
The length of time a child is confined to the hospital varies with each case, the Springfield Health department reports, but most of the patients are kept for about two weeks. EASTERN GAS TO REMAIN TIGHT NEW YORK, (AP)-Gasoline for eastern motorists will remain "tight" for the rest of the summer and autumn, Ralph K. Davies, Deputy Petroleum Administrator for War, predicts. He said that the New York and New England shortage was the result of deliveries depending upon tank cars, many of which have been diverted to military purposes. MidAtlantic and southwestern states are not affected as greatly since pipelines and barges are used primarily to supply the areas.
Funeral services will be held Friday for Robert F. Owens, 84, uncle of Archbishop Francis J. Spellman of New York, who died of heart disease Tuesday at his summer home at Buzzards Bay. Pvt. Louis T.
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LeMoine, Prop. 751 Dwight, near Walnut Yoerg's Assailant Gets Suspended Sentence years a months Before suspending, for two in the house of correction, which was imposed today in district court on Edward Graham, 42, of 47 Congress for assault and battery on former Mayor William P. Yoerg, Judge Eugene A. Lynch warned the defendant to watch step. He was told to bring his grievances to the court, not knock a man down and beat him "almost to death." Graham pleaded guilty to the charge.
Before being sentenced he stepped up to the judge's bench for a consultation with the ex-mayor, who bore, bruises and lacerations' about face and head. Mr. Yoerg, now director of the Holyoke Housing Authority, told how Graham attacked him Wednesday night as he was driving a car out of a stall in his garage. He gave his statement to Judge Lynch in a talk with him bench that couldn't be heard in the court room. Graham was discharged by Yoerg about ten years ago and told the former mayor he had been waiting a long time to get 1944 fertilizer, a too-swift and then too-slow spring to deal with, and ups and downs of hot and cool nights.
With it all there is a splendid crop. Tobacco is one of the handsomest growing crops in the valley. It is tropical ana when freed from the last suckers waiting to get into the sheds it is a joy for a farm-lover just to look at. Around here the crop is clean and unusually well grown. The ceiling price seems to have been raised from last year sO the "growers know what they can expect to get for their crop.
Also the growers need to be congratulated. on bringing to harvest such a crop with a shortage of labor. It means the farmers and their families have worked long hours and against many obstacles. Speaking of crops, a great potato crop is coming to harvest too. There has appeared in this country a kind of potato pest which ch may prove to be very bad business.
It is a worm that gets at the stalk near the root and cannot be sprayed or dusted out. Like so many of our worries, this creature is an importation from Europe. It has not been seen hereabout, but in Long Island great plantings have been plowed up and all effort made to kill the worm. This week representatives of the Department of Ag. riculture have been touring this part of the Valley, looking over the potatoes.
They have been at it for weeks, starting with the North Carolina crop. Until they got up here they ran into drought that means a short crop. In the East potatoes are going to be important this year too. 0 0 The familiar catbird is a chap with contrary characteristics. If politics be a major issue in the bird world, he has the qualifications for going far.
He is loved, condemned. But he goes on, serenely and confidently, knowing he has an exquisitely proportioned i figure, gray outfit and a Beau Brummel air. Galeoscoptes reminds one of some persons who devote their energies to building a legend about themselves and playing to the public instead of going ahead with the workaday business of the world. He's a fellow of unpredictable moods. Sometimes he's gentle and meek and sings a song which proves he's a member in good standing of the mockingbird family.
Again, a moment later, he's aggressive, scolding and fault-finding, and utters harsh, squawks and catcalls which profane the quiet summer afternoon. He is eminently qualified to be a court jester or mimic. As a member of the mocking family he is an apt imitator; sometimes it seems as if he were taking a fiendish delight in carithe melodies of other birds. On a tomato stake in the caturing garden, after pruning and prinkhis feathers for several minutes, he suddenly lifts his head and imitates a song sparrow. In twinkling he changes his mood a and raucously echoes the grating call near-by bluejay.
He and his mate build their home in the thicket around the garden or in a bush at the edge of the woods. The nest is what one would expect, a hodge-podge scrap basket of coarsetwigs, bits of paper, pieces of cloth, and bark, Here madame lays her four or five dark eggs and tends to the housekeeping, while her garden mate or spends shrubbery. his time On in the whole, we are in favor of Galeoscoptes. He has his irritating points, but philosophers tell us it takes all kinds to make a world, When he sings his own glorious song, a beautiful, long melody, he compensates for his antics and Y. Times.
0 0 Aug. 11 and 12 are the dates on which we pass thru the orbit of the swarm of meteors, the Perseids- -so named because they ap pear to radiate from the constellation of Perseus. (One wonders, by the way, if this leap year's ex tra day will "move ahead" the Perseids so that the 10th and the 11th will mark their concentration). If the clouds favor us by their absence these nights, we may see the speedy visitors from outer space in a new light this year. That is to say, they may give us some slight impression of the skies over southeast.
England during recent. nights when the robots flashling over from France. And, to follow the ancient practice of finding omens in natural phenomena may see in these Perseid meteors hints of momentous events during the days to come; the astrologer of Berchtesgaden may discover that his favoring "stars" are, after all, only bits of cosmic dust whose careers reach a sudden end when they "come down to earth." Ser iously, though, the meteors are of interest because they represent a meeting between our planet and some of wits neighboring, spacial matter. the light of our sun; in the tides we may observe the influence of the sun and moon; sun-spots and cosmic rays have their effect upon terrestrial life. But when we see meteors flashing in the skies, we may know that our planet is rushing thru a "cloud of star there is physical contact between solid matter and the earth's atmosphere -the latter, after all, being in a definite sense an outer skin of our planet.
But (entirely apart from considerations of robot bombs and omens and spatial encounter, see the meteors for their own glory. If you are still up about the midnight hour (for the Perseids do not favor those who retire early, keep an eye to the northeastern sky, in the vicinity of the Milky Way. If you stay up late enough and if the skies are clear, there should be no difficulty in finding them. And, even in these latter days, the Perseids remain as awesome a sight as they must have been to the first wondering to see their cold light flash across a summer -F. Jr.
The other day the Oracle called the attention of those who get so much fine Nature education out of this column to the Joe-Pyeweed, which gives splendor to the waysides as we go into the hills back of the city. Then he came across a Boston Herald story about this splendid August roadside decoration. It is indeed rich in history and flower lore. To quote: "Mithridaaes Eupator file once set out to be a dictator. conquered the Crimea and all the country around the Black Sea, and fought three wars with Rome before Pompey finally overthrew him in 66 B.
C. Shortly after, he was killed by his own soldiers, at his request, which sounds like good precedent. Perhaps you had forgotten him, but he blooms today in every New England swamp and boggy corner. lives in memory by virtue of the botanists who gave the generic name Eupatorium, to the race of plants of which eupatorium purpureum the most conspicuous New England member. Of course if you call it Joe-Pye-weed you are perpetuating a legend only, of some Indian who employed this plant, so it is said, to cure fever.
But to the botanist it has the flavor of classic history. Called by any name, however, it is a and stately plant, its handsomed flower clusters just now spreading their crushed raspberry color across the damp spots of our landscape, converting them to wild gardens. Showy as it is in the swamps, it is really seen at its best in. mountain country growing on a sand bar beside an amber brook, interspersed with tall cone flowers and backed by the dark wall of the forest. One such stream there is high in the Green Mountains which forms a quiet pool in a sunny glade amid the spruces and mirrors a woodland garden of Joe-Pye and bright gold cone flowers on its bank.
Just beyond, it plunges again noisily over the rocks and only moss and ferns companion it. In such a setting, Joe-Pye-weed becomes more delicate and individual, its beauty tells its worth. Another common Eupatorium is boneset, not certainly a beautiful plant, but a dose to swallow and hence properly named after a dictator. Boneset tea was administered by our ancestors tor 'fever and or even to counteract the effect of wet feet. Ancients who can remember the treatment still shudder at mention of it.
Eupatrouim or white snake-root, is, however, a pretty plant of the late summer woods, especially in the cool uplands, with pure white flowers much resembling, save in color, our garden ageratum. Indeed, it is sometimes used in gardens for late bloom along the edge of shrubbery or by the path into the woods a pleasant reminder of one of history's unpleasant persons. 00 a The Back-Yard Gardener says there's an old verse which reads: When you can't get salt from the shaker And your corns give you extra pain, 'Tain't no use to consult an almanac You just know it's going to rain. "As the young folks say nowdays, 'could but I'm going to stick to something a bit more certain, though what I'm thinking about now isn't too certain at that. I gardeners doubt if give many of much us thought back yard seeds other than to order early just to be certain of getting the variety we want before the other fellow gets it.
Some folks, on the other hand, have a yen to save seeds. Perhaps it's Yankee thrift, or perhaps it's that the bird in the hand just looks a bit better. Anyway we see a nice squash or a nice tomato, or we think our sweet corn is a little bit better than anything we have had before, and so we think we'll save seed and thus save the cost another year and get better results. Well, again I say 'could but it's doubtful. Seed ordinarily comes from fields which are grown particularly for the purpose.
For instance, I saw a note the other day that out in Indiana they are raising approximately 25 thousand acres of bybrid seed corn this year. They use during the summer time more than seven thousand people to detassel that corn so that farmers. may have bigger and better corn. And of course they make every effort to keep seed-producing fields free from disease. Many of our commercial companies treat their seeds with chemicals so that diseases will not be carried over from year to year on the seed.
So all in all they really make an effort to give us the best seed possible and 99 times out of 100 it will be better than anything we'd save from our own garden. But yet I know that a lot of folks want to save seed. So here are a few things to remember in case you decide to do it. Don't attempt to save seed when you've planted hybrid seed. You'll get almost anything but what you expect.
That's why they detassel the corn -SO that you'll get a certain strain. Hybrid seed is so marked on the package. Do not save seed from biennial plants. Cabbage, carrots, beets and so forth are biennials. In other words, they must grow the second year in order to get seed.
Do not save seed from your vine crops, such as cucumbers, melons, and squash, unless you are certain that no other variety of the same crop is growing within a quarter of mile. In other words, two varieties of cucumbers growing close together would be certain to cross. Selecting seed, of course, also requires a very definite knowledge of vegetable plants and vegetable varieties. For instance, some we his revenge as he punched Mr. Yoerg said.
him The Oracle So many things bring recognition that was not premeditated. One evening in the cold winter of the first war season the Holyoke Arts and Crafts league had a meeting in the home of Miss Florence Chadwick. The studio was too cold. President John Warbeke brought with him a young poet who was on the staff at Mount Holyoke college. He was George K.
Abbe. The membership of the league. gave him a friendly hearing. Abbe has been thru a lot since then. He faced the war as a Conscientious Objector.
That did not satisfy him, so he went into the service and was for some time at Camp Crowder, where found a new power and a new light. He now studying for a military chaplaincy. He is living in Guilford, Conn. In the meantime, he has written considerable poetry of a very high order. He is being noticed by the literary critics.
The lovers of poetry are looking for his work. "Here," those who study American poetry are saying, "is the start of an American poet." Indeed, he is that already. Mr. Abbe's later poetry has been brought together in a little volume with the title, "Letter Home." It takes its name from the first poem in the book, which first appeared in the New York Herald-Tribune. More than twenty newspapers and magazines are glad to publish his verse.
The book is dedicated to the Holyoke Art league with the appreciation: "I remember your hospitality and enthusiasm eon, that cold winter evening when first met you. The genuineness of your response seemed to set a new glow of hope about my poetryall poetry xx. If all groups were as generous, poetry might flourish everywhere, as it deserves." For those among us who fear what this prolonged military service is going to do to our peacetaught youth, Mr. Abbe's foreword is as important as anything in his book. "These poems," says Mr.
Abbe, and one has to remember that he wasn't ready for war when it came, "represent some of the hungers and longings I had while the service. They are in a way the new scheme of values every soldier finds growing and shining more brightly in his consciousness. He discovers how serious his task is. He realizes all at once what the hour he lives in and the world he inherits is like. He remembers home- its love and warmth overwhelm him- -never before has he known what home meant nor how much a man can And in his need he finds hungerid groping for something to cling to then it is that he discovers his greatest inheritancelong locked out, scarcely ever noted, but forever there- his religious faith, the redeeming Presence.
He remembers the hills and waters of home- all the familiar beauties flood thru him--they are suddenly precious beyond words. These poems represent what took place in me as I lived among the men of the Army. I hope I describe the new awareness of the spirit they are finding -the new closeness to God- -close, not so much to what they thru, but to what they have left behind- a new spiritual awareness, the most basic and vital thing of all, which may yet flower into a new religious renaissance of our century." Surely this "Letter Home" from Mr. Abbe will give comfort to the parents of America and will ease some the fears those who look upon new problems born of this war, with something of despair. "Letter Home" is divided into four divisions, which are four moods.
The first is drenched with what the new war experiences have meant to a sensitive man. In that is included a bitter "Ode to Free Enterprise." It is what "Free Enterprise" means, that he and those impassioned youth like him went to war for--the right to choose their way of life and not have it completely dietated to them by what powers come and go among the rulers the world. Mr. Abbe pleads "Now wash the rich in the blood of the broken fleets Now give the brokers the tender bones and sweets Of the brains of the men who fought on Guadalcanal and will fight no more. Build a place immense of twisted steel of tanks Where the poppy sleepyeyed bankers may nod at the door And converse with passing industrial planners on how much thanks They'll give the surviving wounded for saving once more That voluptuous creature, "free enterprise' raped on the floors of our banks" But this is the one bitter note Mr.
Abbe includes in his "Letter Home." The second part, "The Presence," contains thirteen poems and the third, "Men," has as many There are none in either part which fail in expressing some beautiful thing or thought in a beautiful way. They are recharged with soaring thought expressed in choice form. There is a tribute to David Morton of himself, aud then another "For Betty' and David Morton," which has unusual picture of mature human love. The poems brought together under the heading "Nature" have the common design to express delight of some fleeting moment in the things that are not fleeting. For example a picture born of the beauty of the "Chicory Blue" that lends enchantment now to the $4500 IN REWARDS AWAIT McGRATH CASE SOLUTION months SCITUATE -Exactly McGrath after vanished, 10-year-old Frances tion of her the investiga.
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