—— A ’ . DALLAS, PA., SATURDAY, DECEMBER 14 «@ The Dallas Post An independent paper, of the people, devoted to the great farm- ing section of Luzerne and other counties. Trucksville, Shavertown, Lehman, Dallas, The Greater West Side, Shawanese, Alderson, Centermoreland, Fernbrook, Laketon, Sweet Valley, Harvey's Lake, Huntsville and Tunkhannock are circulated by The Dallas Post, Also 100 copies for Wilkes-Barre readers; 150 copies outside of ‘Luzerne and Wyoming Counties, but within the boundaries of Pennsylvania; 200 copies to friends far away. Entered as second-class matter at the Post-Office at Dallas, Pa., under Act of March 3, 1879. Subscription $1.60 per year Payable in advance Address all Communications to THE DALLAS POST Phone Dallas 300 Lehman Avenue Dallas, Pa. YOUTH “This is the age of youth.” How often we hear that said, sometimes in extenuation of youthful exuberance which shocks the elders, sometimes with the hopeful view that youth, somehow, is going to make the world over. 3 Every age has been the age of youth. Young folks are more vocifer- ous just now than they were before the war. They get more publicity, mainly because there are more mediums of publicity. But in al history it has been youth which has gone adventuring, which has injected new ideas into the world’s thought, which has started movements which have, in time, changed social and economic conditions. It was youth that settled America. The Pilgrim Fathers were mostly boys in their twenties when they landed on Plymouth Rock. The pioneers of Virginia and Pennsylvania were no older. From the beginning, young folk have done things of which their “elders did not aprove. “The only sei vice the young can render the old is | . to shock them and sa keep them up to date,” says George Bernard Shaw | in one of his plays: A man or woman must be very old indeed or have a very. poor memory, to havi forgotten that in his or her own youth the oid folks seldom approved of the activities and interests of the young. .And when the young people of ioday have become the parents of boys:-and girls of eighteen or twenty, they, too, will be shocked by the things ‘their children will do or want to do. ) A DANGEROUS PASTIME ‘Coasting is great sport and no child should be denied that health- ful recreation, but when children use their sleds on the State highway and on hills with dangerous streét intersections the sport becomes one of | the most dangerous. Durning the past week there have been no serious have been coasting on the State highway and on Huntsville street. In Trucksville, youngsters make a practice of using the highway as a coasting places This practice should be broken up even if it becomes necessary to arrest ‘and fine boys and girls who indulge in the healthful pastime of coasting. In most instances parents are not aware of the danger in which their children are running. Few are the parents who would knowingly let. their children use the highways as a coasting place. When your child leaves -the house with a sled be sure you know the hill on which he is going to luse. it. Mr i A SE SE EE Sr Rr re vee . DECEMBER find you with a beautiful musical instrument in your home—or will you ’ have just another station-getting radio that lacks beauty tone? 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This question has created quite a feeling “Around the Corner,” many people of the town sometimes stop and pass the time of day. Many names have been mentioned and the writer was surprised to hear of the effort being put forth to have council give some consideration to Russell Abraham Morris, better known to his legion of friends as “Abie.” Upon interrogating the young man in question, he emphatically denied he is a candidate, using the much quoted where ‘We ‘were quite surprised to hear that Abie has real qualifications for a first class police chief; but, then we were reminded that he spent consid- erable time in New York State a few years ago and was a student of the New York State Police. We again reminded that Abie has atetnded the Tunkhannock [Fair every year since the New York tSate Police have been giving exhibitions, and he has always been in the front row. Until we hear of a better qualified candidate state of status quo on the question. were we remain in a ON AGAIN OFF AGAIN One day we hear the chief of police | is resigning, then it’s the chief will be fired J: 1st, then -its that coun- | cil is afraid to fire nuary him, and now the dope -is that he is to be the new chief Kingston and doesn’t in township want the job anyway. Well, i i off the council t's a good case of “On again, gone again Finnegan” with Chief, still in the saddle .and remaining { quiet. HALL WE HAVE A COMMUNITY CHRISTMAS TREE? haven't heard whether a We we are going to or not | merit or qualification. have a community Christmas tree. For several years Paul Shaver not only supervised this but and money to make it a success and he still money due him for electrical supplies It’s too bad that there is not some community organization to take up this work and take care of it each year. =): Historian Tells Story of Early Dallas Schools Ryman Recounts Incidents Leading to Formation of Dallas School As- sociation and Other Interesting Happenings HISTORY OF DALLAS (Continued from Last Week) . As the village of McLellonsville grew and the wealth of its inhabitants increased, community work gave his time we guess has considerable and equipment. new ideas began to creep in, and some of the parents began to grow dissatisfied with the idea that their children should live and grow up without some of the advantages of “’Tis- wonder- ful,” said Emerson, “how soon _a piano gets into a log hut on the. frontier. modern civiilzation. | You would think they found it under ® a pine stump. With it comes a Latin two | or grammar.” A or piano and one organs, a latin grammar and the one two of “ologies’ had found | ary Now W ( Now we who sola TELL THE OLD ¢ { MAKE IT THREE { AND WE’LL THROV 1 BROOKLYN BRIDGE { HIM=ISIT PRE-WAR S il an AUTO CASTE & = pert T. Reid Wer the Indians really owned it. SEN ~You Ho Do You | AM = JOHN D ROCKEFELLER ;—WHAT TL TR SER I ETE Teach oftener chosen because of write. rs w the meagerness of the sal=7 be accept than for which they could induced or forced to any’ other | A. lady school | | teacher was one-time discharged from | { The real] because one of the schools ‘there. and well known reason was she had the temerity to flog a son of of the $uhool directors. Not wish- to give the.true cause for remov- one ing ing the ness. her, this school director pht it on broader ground of aleged unfit-| He defended his action as fol- | lows: “I don’t profess to know much about. school teaching myself,” said he, | “put I can sometimes spell. g simple word like b-o0-k book, whieh is a'——- more than she can do, if I do say it Haint that so, Jim?” Bad seemed to grow worse until this myself. state of thing became unlg.rable to: the villagers in and about Mcl.elons- ville. = All other efforts having failed, | separation began to be thought of | and discussed. At first it was thought that a separate school district might | be cut off from the township. That | plan did not seem to be just at that | time, because of the long fight and | delay that might ensue if the matter | was contested, as it was most likely | to be. They wanted immediate relief in the matter of better school accom- modations and to (Continued on Page 4) - were determined their |} way out to Dallas early in the sixties, | 3 about the winter of 1862-3, but there | was no one in the township who could | 3 such and the elsewhere teach branches, only to by sending children away ston and to tax could such instruction tuition in addition regular school had. A few were able to do this and did do it, be while the common. schools of the town- get much above the the Great efforts were made, mostly riculum of famous “three R's. bv | | MclLel- | | of. school, a few who lived in and near to things and establish a graded lonsville, Improve this state grew up among those who lived in the | i bg remoter portions of the township, and Ei es uaran E: 3 wilth it a combined effort tod oppose all been good enough for their fathers and | | such schemes. Schools which hac grandfathers were for This ment to many good enough them. was unanswerable of away every opposition in the outsias | + argu- them, and swept districts. Those village folks, though they, must not be indulged in any |} such extravagant and visionary no-. | tions. A to| offer himself as a candidate for school | director mon enemy by this class, who honestly | reformer who ventured was looked upon as a believed that debt and financial ruin were the natural and certain sequences of his election, so that such candidates by chance elected, were left in such were almost invariably defeated, or, if| minority as to be powerless for good. The typical school director was often |3 a man who could neither read nor ¥ | HIGGINS but a jealousy of the village folks | % 3 % Special Christmas Package. ...$1.00 Ea | # Bon Bons, all types and Kinds, BHAI BEAR SAI u These candies are made by Mrs. C.%: | E D. 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