[PRCo] Re: West Penn 832

[Schneider Fred]

You're right Bob.
Never let a dago by that you should report an Italian by his correct  
name.    :<)

You've seen the picture of the West Penn car with motorman and  
conductor posed beside it and someone neatly labeled it in pen and  
ink pointing one of them "shot by an Italian at Trotter."

Same thing happened in this county.   There was a letter to the  
editor of the Lititz Record Express in 1895 complaining about the  
Italian laborers building the new trolley line to Lititz.   On their  
days off they were doing something very distasteful.   They were  
spending their money in the local stores and the writer believed they  
should find some place else to spend their money.

Nothing changes over time except who we choose to dislike.   Today  
people with names like Florindo Veri and Eddie Pesnoski have earned  
the right to use them.   Actually those are real names.   Florindo  
changed his name to Frank because he knew he could never practice  
medicine in this town with that name.   He was my father-in-law.   
Today, he could.   But Jose Gonzelez still isn't allowed to use his  
name.   We don't care to have people named Anjali Gupta in our midst  
unless this person is pumping our gas.   Nguyen Tran probably would  
not be invited to a cocktail party in polite society in this town  
either.   And I am amazed at how fast we can learn to dislike a  
president if his father was Islamic ... within 72 hours after the  
election  ... we forget that this country was founded on the basis of  
religious freedom and we take it to mean my freedom, not yours.     
The local Mormon church wants to move into the suburbs ... next to an  
Episcopal Church.   You should hear to screaming about the traffic  
jams it will cause.   Translates into "wrong religion" for our
pristine WASP neighborhood.

Sorry Sweet Old Bob, but you got me started.



On Dec 10, 2009, at 8:33 PM, robert netzlof wrote:

> --- On Thu, 12/10/09, Dennis Fred Cramer <trombone at windstream.net>  
> wrote:
>
>> The current editor of the Valley News noted none of the
>> girls had "foreign"
>> names.  The time period did not permit, no grant, any
>> recognition of
>> foreigners.
>
> On a related note:
>
> I recall reading an account in the Ligonier Valley Echo from some  
> date back in the 1920's of an accident on the Ligonier Valley Rail  
> Road. It said something like "Injured in the accident were Dr. and  
> Mrs. John Jones of this place, Mr. William Smith of Latrobe, Mr.  
> Melvin Collins of Greensburg, and six Italians."
>
> Bob Netzlof a/k/a Sweet Old Bob
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