[PRCo] Gene Autry
Jerry MATT Matsick
mtoytrain at bellsouth.net
Mon Feb 23 12:39:46 EST 2009
I remember back in the early 1950s, street cars still going North South on Mckean Avenue in Donora, and
One of my favoriet cowboys "Gene Autry" made a visit to the "Harris Theatre" in Downtown Donora!
What a treat! Gene Autry like John Wayne were two of my favorites!
>The Cowboy Code by Gene Autry
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>1. The Cowboy must never shoot first, hit a smaller man, or take unfair advantage.
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>2. He must never go back on his word, or a trust confided in him.
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>3. He must always tell the truth.
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>4. He must be gentle with children, the elderly, and animals.
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>5. He must not advocate or possess racially or religiously intolerant ideas.
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>6. He must help people in distress.
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>7. He must be a good worker.
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>8. He must keep himself clean in thought, speech, action, and personal habits.
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>9. He must respect women, parents, and his nation's laws.
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>10. The Cowboy is a patriot.
--
From: Jerry "Matt" Matsick "PHD"
Living without trust in God is like driving in
the fog.
-------------- Original message from "Jerry "MATT" Matsick" <mtoytrain at bellsouth.net>: --------------
> Fred
> Amen and Amen to what you have so carefully stated in this message!
> --
> From: Jerry "Matt" Matsick "PHD"
> Living without trust in God is like driving in
> the fog.
> -------------- Original message from Schneider Fred :
> --------------
>
>
> > I am sorely afraid that this is a subject that we should not be
> > touching because it is bound to offend people on this list.
> >
> > Yes, I will agree that it is the drug culture. And drugs are
> > related in ways to alcohol. They all do things to the body that
> > take us beyond control.
> >
> > Problem is that every family I have met and gotten intimate with
> > seems to have someone lurking in the shadows that had a problem with
> > alcohol. Today many of them have a similar problem somewhere in the
> > family with something harder. Therefore I am reluctant to post the
> > subject because it hurts other people. But we need to understand
> > that you are not responsible for what someone else does with their
> > life ... because you have or don't have legislation aimed at
> > preventing it, it is still their problem. It only becomes your
> > problem if you gave them the drugs or insisted they get drunk and
> > provided the booze.
> >
> > I am trying to approach it realistically. Understand that I have a
> > daughter who has done virtually nothing with her life since high
> > school. The granddaughter claims that "Mom did nothing with her ex
> > husband's pension that she got in the divorce except blow it on drugs
> > and alcohol." I saw her growing illegal crops in a closet under a
> > grow light. One of these days she will die of a total system
> > failure. Isn't my fault. I did not set that example.
> >
> > But I am afraid to issue such pronouncements know that Mark is
> > hurting right now. I think Mark is one very nice person. And I'm
> > also afraid to touch this issue in front of John because of his
> > sister whom I affectionately called "Sarge". I have to stop and
> > apologize for any hurt this causes to those two, and to the rest of
> > you who no doubt all have some relative somewhere who have a similar
> > issue.
> >
> > Some nations seem to have a worse problem that others: USA, Holland,
> > Britain, the countries in South America that grow the stuff. My
> > instincts tell me that some of the Germanic countries are so
> > accustomed to being regulated that it isn't the same issue there.
> > And India has an incredibly low incarceration rate, perhaps because
> > they are simply so poor that they cannot afford the luxury of going
> > broke buying drugs and that their only crimes are petty theft.....
> > I'm thinking out loud and I could be dead wrong. Remember the story
> > about the blind men patting the elephant and each getting a different
> > opinion of what the elephant was like? Well, maybe I don't
> > understand the elephant.
> >
> > I will postulate, John, that there is something wrong in a culture
> > when we have come to allow our children to do whatever they want in
> > school. Where it is their option to fail if they choose. What kind
> > of a society allows a child to sit in front of a teacher and text
> > message to someone else and then hide the "brownberry" in her pants
> > and claim she wasn't doing it? In my generation, you simply didn't
> > do stupid things or if you did, you owned up to it and served
> > detention and didn't do it again. And pop gave you a licking when
> > you got home. Now you get it trouble in school, dad sues the
> > school. The kid gets a message that it's OK to defy authority. Do
> > what ever you want. Flunk out. Thn you can earn $200,000 a year
> > dealiing drugs because you can't get a legitimate job.
> >
> > Should not the parent who gives the kid the phone to take to school
> > also be fined? Maybe we need to force parents to again be parents
> > and start there.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Feb 23, 2009, at 9:12 AM, John Swindler wrote:
> >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > The problem seems to be a drug culture, and I don't know what can
> > > solve it. It's one of the reasons we have one of - if not the
> > > highest prison rates in the world. And it's not cheap. Far too
> > > much of our tax dollars goes into this field. It's too profitable
> > > for those who are looking for 'get rich quick' options.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > This is another instance where I'd like to hear Rich's viewpoint,
> > > being that he is somewhat on the front lines.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Throwing money at a problem does not solve it. This country has a
> > > lot of practice trying to do that.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Cheers
> > >
> > > John
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >> From: fwschneider at comcast.net
> > >> Subject: [PRCo] Re: Coatesville Arson
> > >> Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2009 23:05:26 -0500
> > >> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
> > >>
> > >> Look 20 minutes to either side of your home, John. None of this
> > >> world is what it was 40/50 years ago. It isn't where your mum came
> > >> from either. I noticed in Sheffield, England, ten years ago that
> > >> the hoodlums from the council homes (reads projects in American) were
> > >> removing the streetcar fare vending machines from the posts and
> > >> taking them home to smash them and get the money. Then you find the
> > >> broken and empty ticket machines in the dumpster. I remember a
> > >> distinct feeling that I was being trailed in Manchester, England,
> > >> once. My solution was to walk into a McDonalds, walk through and
> > >> out the other door. It solved the problem. The guy disappeared.
> > >> Funny ... never had that feeling in Germany, Austria, Switzerland or
> > >> even India.
> > >>
> > >> I used to kid (heckle?) the business write of the Reading Eagle /
> > >> Reading Times, before I retired, that the front page of his newspaper
> > >> was the murder of week page. Lancaster was still rather sedate.
> > >> The drug culture has reached Lancaster County with a vengeance and
> > >> now we see it here too ... hardly a week or two goes by that we don't
> > >> have another murder somewhere in the county ... mostly in the city
> > >> but, as I recall reading in a Minnesota paper two years ago, that
> > >> those who sell illicit drugs love the country and small towns because
> > >> the police are not as efficient.
> > >>
> > >> If we go back much more than half a century, murders in this county
> > >> were so rare than when one happened (about 1950 or 1951), it was
> > >> narrated on a prime-time TV show called "The Big Story." They did
> > >> not normally happen here. This was a God fearing county where you
> > >> knew your neighbors and no one would have thought of stepping over
> > >> the line. And the last place you wanted to do something was a little
> > >> town like Columbia where the police knew everyone; you could be sure
> > >> 50 years ago to be arrested there within minutes if you did something
> > >> wrong because the town cop knew every bad egg. People in Lancaster
> > >> County left their doors unlocked 50 years ago ... city or county.
> > >>
> > >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Big_Story_(radio/TV)
> > >>
> > >> My township hired it's first policeman in 1953 or 1954. We had
> > >> 7,000 inhabitants then and one cop. Today we 33,000 people and more
> > >> policemen, detectives, etc., than the city of Lancaster did in
> > >> 1953. Then the big offense was the guy who forgot to stop for a
> > >> stopped school bus or, in 1957, the speed trap they set up on the
> > >> Lititz Pike to get the high school kids in a 35 mph zone at after
> > >> school. This month the went into the high school with a team of
> > >> police and dogs and arrested three seniors as coccaine and heroine
> > >> dealers and put them in jail. They knew who they were after before
> > >> they went in.
> > >>
> > >> I was having dinner the other day. Some how I got into a
> > >> conversation with the waitress who was taking a semester of work at
> > >> University of Pittsburgh on-line because she had to come home and
> > >> take care of a sick mother. I asked where she planned to go after
> > >> she got her degree. There was no doubt in her mind. She likes
> > >> Pittsburgh. Her field is criminology and police work. And she said
> > >> there is no shortage of demand for her field in Pittsburgh today.
> > >> (When I worked out there 25 years ago, it was a very safe place.)
> > >> Like Bob Dietrich's daughter and the rest of us, there is a certain
> > >> allure to the people in that part of the state. But sad that we
> > >> have to admit that there is no shortage of demand for police.
> > >>
> > >> But we know the problem exists in Montana and Philadelphia, Maine and
> > >> and Portland, probably Lancaster SC as well as Lancaster PA.
> > >>
> > >> And there is at least one person on this list who sees the results of
> > >> drugs first hand every day ... a doctor working in a hospital in a
> > >> ghetto in North Philadelphia.
> > >>
> > >> fws
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> On Feb 22, 2009, at 10:11 PM, John Swindler wrote:
> > >>
> > >>>
> > >>> Hi Phil
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>> I am reminded of the admonition: "be careful what you wish for -
> > >>> you just might get it".
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>> So when people 'wish' for and undefined 'change', they just might
> > >>> get something far different.
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>> As for Coatesville and Wampum, those are singular instances. It's
> > >>> the murders in Homewood and North Philadelphia that go on almost
> > >>> daily. The Post Gazette is available on line, and while checking
> > >>> for PAT news, one is struck by realization that this is not the
> > >>> Pittsburgh I remember from 40/50 years ago. Certain neighborhoods
> > >>> are much more violent today.
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>> The trouble with history is that, with few exceptions, there really
> > >>> isn't much new under the sun.
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>> Cheers
> > >>>
> > >>> John
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>> Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2009 10:54:06 -0800
> > >>>> From: pcc_sr at yahoo.com
> > >>>> Subject: [PRCo] Re: Coatesville Arson
> > >>>> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
> > >>>>
> > >>>> Mr.Swindler;
> > >>>>
> > >>>>
> > >>>> There are more than exceptions available aren't there. As we
> > >>>> observed elsewhere
> > >>>> we are expecting great change with our new president but official
> > >>>> historians say
> > >>>> we are still struggling with the same social ills of President
> > >>>> Lincoln. Actually,
> > >>>> many of those 'ills' are millenia old aren't they. Same for crime.
> > >>>>
> > >>>> King Solomon said: "There is nothing new under the sun." While the
> > >>>> specific
> > >>>> reference is to human creative ability (actually, lack thereof) it
> > >>>> can also be
> > >>>> 'applied' to the destructive ability of 'humans.' Murder started
> > >>>> with Cain and
> > >>>> Abel and has been with us ever since at all ages. However, it is
> > >>>> always startling when the murderer is young isn't it. You will
> > >>>> find the same
> > >>>> with every generation since time began; it's not new is it.
> > >>>>
> > >>>>
> > >>>> Phil
> > >>>>
> > >>>>
> > >>>>
> > >>>>
> > >>>>
> > >>>>> ----- Original Message ----
> > >>>>> From: Phillip Clark Campbell
> > >>>>> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
> > >>>>> Sent: Friday, February 20, 2009 11:35:48 AM
> > >>>>> Subject: Re: Coatesville Arson
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>> This made national news as well.
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>> Phil
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>> ----- Original Message ----
> > >>>>>> From: John Swindler
> > >>>>>> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
> > >>>>>> Sent: Friday, February 20, 2009 6:46:13 AM
> > >>>>>> Subject: [PRCo] Re: [PRCo]
> > >>>>>>
> > >>>>>> Motive? Didn't have a life, and way too much free time on his
> > >>>>>> hands.
> > >>>>>> There's a lot of that going around. Our society has become way
> > >>>>>> too wealthy.
> > >>>>>>
> > >>>>>> It was some 35+ years ago that Geissenheimer commented "didn't
> > >>>>>> know
> > >>>>>> any young railfans that got themselves into trouble". Of
> > >>>>>> course the
> > >>>>>> nit-pickers will come up with exceptions, but what Harold was
> > >>>>>> trying
> > >>>>>> to say was that hobbies and sports, etc can help keep kids out
> > >>>>>> of trouble.
> > >>>>>> I doubt if there are any ax murderers or arsonist on THIS list.
> > >>>>>>
> > >>>>>>
> > >>>>>>
> > >>>>>> Cheers
> > >>>>>>
> > >>>>>> John
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>>>
> > >>>>>>> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
> > >>>>>>> From: fwschneider at comcast.net
> > >>>>>>> Subject: [PRCo]
> > >>>>>>> Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 22:13:29 -0500
> > >>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>> Since this was on this website, I'll ask John Swindler openly
> > >>>>>>> if he
> > >>>>>>> saw the news today ...
> > >>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>> This didn't break in time to make the Lancaster papers but it
> > >>>>>>> is on
> > >>>>>>> Comcast's home page late tonight ...
> > >>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>> Roger Barlow, age 19, was arrest for setting 7 arson fires in
> > >>>>>>> Coatesville in the last year. He is considered a "pyromaniac
> > >>>>>>> who set
> > >>>>>>> the fires so he could watch the homes burn." He is in jail in
> > >>>>>>> lieu
> > >>>>>>> of $9,000,000 bail. That's a lot of zeros. No motive given.
> > >>>>
> > >>>>
> > >>>>
> > >>>>
> > >>>>
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