DALLAS POST, FRIDAY SEPTEMBER. 12, 1930 : .
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0 the great suburban and agricultural
district of the Greater West Side,
gomprising Dallas and twenty-seven
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THE DALLAS POST PROGRAM
The Dallas Post will lend its sup-
rt and offers the use of its columns
to all projects which will help this
community and the great rural-subur-
pan territory which it serves to at-
fain the following major improve-
“3. A free library located in the Dal-
meats: .
os las region.
Better and adequate street light-
Ldng In Trucksville, Shavertown,
Fernbrook and Dallas.
Sanitary sewage disposal system
for Dallas. »
Closer cooperation between Dal-
las borough and surrounding
townships. ~ :
Consolidated high schools and
better cooperation between those
~ that now exist.
The appointment of a shade tree
commission to supervise the pro-
tection and see to the planting of
shade trees along the streets of
Dallas, Shavertown, Trucksville
and Fernbrook.
The formation of a Back Moun-
4ain Club made =p of business
men ané homeowners interested
in the development of local insti-
tutions, the organization of new
ones and the development of a
community consciousness in Dal-
las, Trucksville, Shavertown and
Fernbrook.
A modern concrete highway lead-
ing from Dallas and connecting
the Sullivan Trail at Tunkhan-
nock.
The elimination of petty politics
from Dallas borough council and
all school boards in the region
covered by The Dallas Post.
And all other projects which help
to make the Back Mountain sec-
tion a better place to live in.
MAIL
At request of a man who had to
expend time and effort going to
~ Wilkes-Barre to mail an important
~ Jetter on Sunday because it would
not have been collected in Dallas be-
fore Monday morning. THE POST is
putting forth this plea for action by
authorities who can schedule collec-
tion of mail in this vicinity on Sun-
day. ’ :
~ From Saturday ‘ night until early
* Monday morning no mail is collected
in Dallas. Important letters must
wait and too often residents of the
town must carry their letters to
Wyoming valley. Once the mail was
small and its size did not warrant
Sunday collections but Dallas is grow-
ing and its residents and business men
are now inconvenienced by the old
system. To
Why can’t post office authorities ar-
range to have one or two collections
‘on Sunday, the mail to be sent to the
city by street car if no other methed,|
can be planned?
RULERS OF AMERICA
Mr. Janes W. Gerard, once Unit-
ed States Ambassador to Germany,
made public the other day a list of
64 men who, he said, were the real
rulers of America. There was not
a single politician or office-holder in
the list. It was composed of the
men who operate the great industries,
banks and newspaper organizations of
the nation.
Some of the nation’s iichest meu
were on Mr. Gerard's list, of course; |
but many men of great wealth were
not inclyded. The rich men whom
he named are men who actively man-
age the investment and operation of
their own wealth, like Henry Ford and
John D. Rockefeller, Jr. But the
great majority of these “Rulers of
America” are hired men. They work
for other people, manage other peo-
ple’s money and property for them.
They rule, or help to rule America,
not because they are men of wealth
but because they are men of brains
and ability. Walter P. Gifford, presi-
dent of the American Telegraph and
Telephone Company, does not own as
much as one per cent of the comp-
any which he manages. Owen D.
Young, Chairman of the General El-
ectric Company, is a hired man work-
ing for the company’s stockholders.
Such power as those men and others
similarly situated exert is theirs be-
‘cause they have proved their ability
to build and operate great organiza-
tions of capital and men.
That is the American principle, to
which we all subscribe; that a man is
entitled to go as far as his individual
t, provided he does
Its
sheer ability the men who Mr. Gerard
calls “Rulers of America” have it ail
over the general run of public officials.
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FUEL OIL FOR POWER
Will the home owner eventual
ly drive his automobile and his air-
plane with the same fuel he now uses
to heat his home? Developments in
the oil burning motor are coming
fast. An airplane equipped with a
Diesel motor using feul oil recently
flew from Detroit to New York with
six passengers at a fuel cost of only
$4.45, approximately $20 less than
the average cost for such a flight with
high test gasoline. An oil burning
engine in a motor bus is said to have
reduced the cost of operation from ten
cents to two cents a mile. .
These developments have focused
attention on the possibilities of a com-
pression-ignition oil burning motor for
passenger automobiles and engineers
are at work on it with every prospect
of success.
As the demand for fuel’ increases,
production and sale assume a
greater importance. Coal dealers are
adding it to their stocks. The filling
station may be the next to fall in
line. In that case it is not difficult
to imagine the housewife telephoning
such an order as this to the corner
filling station: “a hundred for the
furnace and ten for the car.”
won ow
SAFETY FOR CHILDREN
Every fall, as schools begin ses-
sions, the problem of controlling traf-
fic to prevent injury to children who
must cross main thoroughfares daily,
arises’again to worry mothers.
In Dallas and other towns in this
region where traffic arteries pass
through the town the lives of child-
ren are endangered by, “asses of the
macadam” who speed through towns
with no thought for the little girl or
boy who may dart across the street.
Let’s begin early this year. Let
every mother warn her child, let every
officer of the law watch carefully for
and reprimand careless motorists and
let every man and woman in the
community make the school zones safe
for children.
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THE SCHOOL PAGE
While we were planning the school
page we thought “Is it wise? Un-
doubtedly boys and girls will read it
but they don’t buy papers or advertis-
ing. Grown-ups will glance at the
page and turn quickly to some other
section of the paper where the news
about grown-ups is.”
We hesitated for a moment. Then
something said: “That page won't be
only black and white Tt will be a
symbol of the American pubhc school.
It will breathe of the hopes, the
dreams, the activities of those hund-
reds and hundreds of boys and girls
who are going to run Dallas and Nox-
en, Kingston’ Twp., and every. other
community. in the world in twenty or
thirty years. Isnt it interesting to
have a record of what they thought
and did? Isn't every person inter-
ested in the boys and girls of this
community? Don’t people pay taxes
for schools and don’t the hard-work
ing principals and teachers deserve
some commendation and recognition?”
So THE DALLAS POST will have
a school page.
O
. SEPTEMBER
By George Arnold
Sweet is the voice that calls
And soft the breezes blow,
From babbling waterfalls
In meadows where the downy seeds
are flying;
And eddying come and 80, i
In faded gardens where the rose is
dying. \
Amone the stubbled corn
The hlithe quail pipes at morn,
The merry partridgz drums in hidden
places,
And glittering incects gleam
Where busy spiders spin their filmy
laces.
At eve, cool shadows fall
Across the garden wall,
And on the clustered grapes to purple
turning;
And pearly vapors lie
Along the eastern sky,
Where the broad harvest-moon is red-
ly burning.
Ah, soon on field and hill
The winds shall whistle chill
And patriarch swallows call
flocks together
To fly from frost and snow,
And seek for lands where blow
The fairer blossoms of a balmier
weather.
their
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The pollen-dusted bees
Search for the honey-lees
That Jinger in the last flowers of
September,
| grandson of Hamilton, killed in a duel,
This Week
|
by ARTHUR BRISBANE
|
Ugly Word, Revolution.
Magic Words, Gold, Treasure.
To Help Business, Spend.
Miss Hurst's Marmoset.
It was simple for our Government of |
“best minds” to snub the Russian Gov-
ernment because it wouldn't repay
millions that American bankers lent to
the Czar and Kerensky. But there
are other “red” things outside of Rus-
sia to worry those best minds.
There is threat of revolution in the
Argentine. The President of that
South American republic, living in his
dwelling as™m a fortified castle, sum-
mons warships to his display of mili-
tary strength.
Brazil sends news of threatening
revolution.
The President of Peru has been kid-
naped.
India and Egypt worry the British.
China worries the whole world.
Lower prices for stocks, lack of em-
ployment, diminished output, worry us.
The world had its war, its assorted
prosperity booms, and now it has the
pleasure of paying for both.
Most serious for the fifty-nine or gix- |
ty-four that govern by the power of
organized money, according to ex-Am-
bassador Gerard, is the world-wide
threat of revolution.
It is hard to believe, but just con-
ceivable that the number of human
beings on earth might become more
important than the number of organ-
ized dollars.
Mr. Shillito, quoted in the Christian
Century, describes Russia’s “bold and
unfaltering offer of an alternative to
the old order.” That means govern-
ment for men, instead of for profits.”
Our hest minds would do well to
think about that.
This is the age of rackets. Rackets
in milk, whiskey, cleaning and dyeing,
laundry work, labor unions and now,
latest, an unemployment racket.
New York’s free employment agency
finds the same faces returning after
getting Jobs.
The racket is to get your job, sell
it to a man out of work, come back and
get another.
Gold and treasure are words that
excite nearly all men.
Italian divers, clad in iron, going
down 400 feet to the bottom of the
Atlantic, and up again as rapidly as
swift elevators in our skyscrapers,
have discovered the British treasure
ship, Egypt, with $5,000,000 of gold
and silver in her hull, lying on the
gray sand on the ocean’s floor.
No difficulty in persuading Italian
divers to go 400 feet down. They
would go to the earth’s centre if Musso-
lini ordered it and they could get there.
T. F. Wallace, head of the National
Association of Savings Banks, sees the
end of the slump because savings de-
posits have increased $225,000,000.
Saving shows strength of mind, but the
end of the slump might be still nearer
if those that put the $225,000,000 extra
into savings banks had put it into cir-
culation buying merchandise.
What people spend makes prosper-
ity. What they save, makes them safe.
All in one day the Prince of Wales’
is promoted in the army, navy and
Royal Air Force. The wise British
separate their air force from the other
two.- He is Vice-Admiral of the fleet,
Lieutenant-General in the army, Air
Marshal in the flying fleet.
The young prince is mads to real-
ize that there are advantages in being
“born right.”
On the other hand, it is probably
more satisfactory to work to the top
without help, like Napoleon or Nelson.
Alexander Hamilton, great-great-
is a candidate for the New York State
Senate. He left Harvard five years
ago, did newspaper work, tried mov-
ing pictures, then banking. In poli-
tics he “will work to repeal the prohi-
bition amendment.”
The young man, in addition to hav-
ing Alexander .Jamilton for a great-
great-grandfather, has the late J. Pier-
pont Morgan for his grandfather.
Very respectable ancestry.
The literary and intelligent Fannie
Hurst returns from Europe with a pet
marmoset, so small it sits in a large
pocketbook. She should write about
husbands of the future, who will prob-
ably dwindle to about that size, in the
course of evolution.
The giant sea crab when you catch
one, is always female of great size.
She carries the male crab, about as big
as a ten cent piece, under one of its
flippers; except on rare occasions. Hus-
bands may dwindle down to that, when
While plaintive mourning doves
Coo sadly to their loves
member.
Yet, though a sense of grief
Comes with the falling leaf,
And memory makes the summer doubly
pleasant,
In all my autumn dreams
A future summer gleams,
the expense of oth-
Passing the fairest glories of the pres-
Of the dead summer they so well re-|
men hav. no harder work than push-
ing a button. Size and muscle will no
| longer count.
But woman will remain of full size,
because of her maternal duties, and
for other reasons. :
The female spider is ten times: as
big as her husband, and eats him after
marriage. Human husbands should
not complain. y
How Can He Get Around That?
By Alber T Reid
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POLITICS
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YRE
NEW YORK.—No spot so succes -ful-
ly turns back the years for me as
Coney Island. It is the one amuse-
ment resort that
cransforms the
sourest curmud-
seon into a Peter
Pan. And this past
summer Coney did
not fail to live up
{0 its chirping an-
chem: “Bigger and
Jatter.”
There are three
iistinct classes in
this whirling world
»f make - believe.
- hose who visit it
lolling in the pontifical plush of !imou-
sines. Others who go to Coney for a
lark. And che great, fat and waddling
majority who refer to it as “Cooney.”
The latter have the most fun. They
live and play there from April 15 to
the closing in September. Coney to
them is a seaside resort where studied
informality stamps the elect—the hap-
py. Mothers and children wear only
bathing suits during the entire hegzira.
To be “smart” at Coney wins an
elegant guffawings“horse laugh.” The
seasoned Coney Islanders come nearest
to the supreme joy of beach combing,
without its discomforts, that the world
knows.. The chief charm of Coney is
that life is shucked of its monotonous
conventions.
Thousands who swarm the beach from
sunup until sundown are housed in
mere huts, furnished only with such
bare necessities as a bed, table, chair
and cookstove. The glittering para-
bola of dips of death, papier mache
what-nots is as unknown as Broadway
to the real New Yorker.
Manhattan has scores of luncheons
and dinners daily to which reporters
are invited and for which free table
and free food are provided. They are
not asked for credentials. They mere-
ly name their paper and live like a lord
and a couple of dukes.
Out of this looseness was spawned
a cadging army of meal grabbers who
may partake of two royal meals a day
with fat Havanas and perhaps cock-
tails, wine and high-balls without
cost. Most of the lakers wear horn-
rimmed glasses to furnish the “liter-
ary look.” ;
Such “cheaters” with clear glass
may be purchased for 50 cents from
East Side push carts. The pseudo-
press men carry sheafs of copy paper
and stub pencils—no reporter carries
a full sized pencil—to complete the
camouflage. If suspected and ques-
tioned they represent “a chain of out
of town papers.”
Thanks to fictional flapdoodle, re-
porters are invariably believed to be
starved and dressed shabbily. The
truth is the Fourth Estate as a class
dresses better than bankers. Where
were we? 0, yes! A reporter, fake
or the goods, is always sure of a merry
Y WAGON
(By Cal. Fisher)
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DOPOD O OOOO OOOO OOOOWW WW WN
Waitress: “Dont’ you like your col-
lege pudding, sir?”
Diner: “No, Miss, I'm afraid there
is an, egg in it which ought to have
been expelled.”
* * *
Clerk: “I'm taking a corespondence
course to get more money, sir.”
Boss: “Ah, too bad! I'm taking one
to reduce expenses.”
* #* *
“That customer over there says his
said the
soup is not fit for a pig,”
waiter.
“Then take it away, you idiot, re-
torted the manager, “and fetch him
some that is.”
* * *
The perspiring film director dropped
to the ground after finishing} a hot
outdoor scene. Looking around he
saw a dummy of old clothes and
straw.
“Heavens!” he yelled, “Who was it
they threw over the cliff.”
* * *
how you can afford to
girls to expensive res-
“I don’t see
take so many
taurants.”
“That's “easy; I always ask each
girl, just before going in, if she hasn't
been putting on weight.”
* * *
Boxer’s second: “Buck up old man.
Think of all your ancestors who have
died fighting.”
something about the past of my pres-
ent husband for future use.”
knows the voice or calls back for veri-
fications. Grafting passes is now a dan-
gerous sport.
I am an occasional patron of an
Washington
Armenian restaurant on
street—reveling in
native dishes. The
other night. pass-
ing the kitchen |
peeked in for a
glimpse of the cook.
expecting a figure
in a fez with per-
haps a rug over his
arm. Instead 1
saw a fat American
negress with a red
bandana around
her neck perspir-
ing over an old -
fashioned stove. I don’t believe now
there is a Dorothy Parker.
Short shavings: Billy Sunday, going
strong, is stirring things up at Cha-
tauquas in Missouri and Kansas. . . .
Dr. Morris Fishbein 1s now laughing
at his profession in an uninteresting
book called “Doctors and Specialists.”
The best biography of the year,
“The Raven,” the life of Sam Houston
(Bobbs-Merrill). When George
Ade “goes to town” he prefers Chicago
to New York. Hamish McLauren,
the writer, is a skilled magician.
Charles B. Driscoll lives in the biggest
city next to New York— Yonkers, ha,
mitt in this era of publicity frenzy.
Theatres are the only institutions to
go after such gate crashers rough shod.
It used to be anyone could call up and
announce he was
of a western paper and “two
front” would be left at the box office.
It cost them a quarter of a million
a year.
Al Woods, a good tough bozo, tricked
several rascals and had them jailed.
Other theatres followed his lead. To-
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day no theatre accommodates tele-
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the correspondent |
down |.
eler
ha. Leo and H Marsh call
| their country estate at Rye “Cracked
| Ceilings.” Julius Tannen’s son
| has become an actor but not a monol-
ogist. He’s in Garrick Gaieties.
tired, hungry and thirsty crities.
| Roy Howard's. yacht is named ‘“‘Jama-
roy” and carries 30 guests. . . . J. P.
Morgan chews gum
never publicly. . . .
(@ 1932 M. Naught Syndicate, Inc.)
phone callers—unless the press agent
Roxy's midnight studio parties
| over his theatre are high spots ior
occasioaally but
THIS WEEK
Pennsylvania's politicians will be
busy from now until . November.
Though Pinchot’s camp scored victory
over the Brown forces when the State
Supreme Court refused to throw out
the votes cast in Luzerne county on
perforated ballots, followers of the
Pike county forester will have another
battle in the general election as resui*
of the support being given to wet
candidate for Governor, John MM,
Hemphill of West Chester and his
slate by Philadelphia and Pittsburgh
political powers. }
If Pinchot were as sure of success
in all parts of the State as he is of
victory in Dallas and vicinity he
would sleep soundly these cool fall
nights. Even opponents of the dry
ex-governor and Republican nominee
predict a majority for Pinchot in this
region. :
In The Philadelphia Record this
wek Messrs. Pinchot and Hemphill ex-
plained their platforms, as they will
hundreds of times in the next eight
weeks. Hemphill admitted temper-
ance is a laudable aim, prohibition is
a proper method of forcing temper-
ance, provided it actwally prohibits,
intoxicating liquors must be' the sub-
ject of prohibitory or regulatory laws
and that many of the institutions
which existed before prohibition were
| undesirable, B-U-T despite these ad-
missions, the big question is, Mr.
Hemphill said: Shall prohibition be
| attempted on a national scale or shall
|the power be given to the separate
|
Losing fighter: “That’s just what States as a unit.
I'm worrying about.” Pinchot is as dry as when he cam-
Re 1paigned in 1922. He doesn’t attempt
Fortune Teller: “Do yoa want to to evade the question. He's for pro-
know about your future husband. | hibition because it pays human divi-
Visitor: “No; I want to know | he says, and though his eyes,
dends,
[os and nose tell him that we've not
| destroyed liquor, his mind and heart
| tell him that the human race will des-
{troy it.
People ° who predict 'things say
Hemphill will carry Philadelphia and
| Pittsburgh and will gain a lead of
350,000 votes in those two cities.
| Pinchot leaders laugh, say Democratic
{ Hemphill will be defeated, that Pinci-
lot will have a bigger margin of vic-
tory than he had in 1922. Pinchot
| followers seem the ‘more confident of
|the two groups.
| Mr. Hoover's Anxiety:
From Dallas, Pa. ito Dallas, Tex
people are guessing who will be the
presidential candidates in. 1932, if
Republicans can put another man in
the White House and if the country's
economic ills will be blamed on the
i Republican administration by enough
people to elect a Democratic presi-
dent.
Republicans, realizing this, began
this week a campaign to defend the
administration’s record. Mr. Hoover,
they say, is adverse to speechmaking
but, because he must answer attacks
directly and help Republican senator-
ial and congressional candidates, he
has consented to make speeches, many
of them by radio.
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QUOTATIONS
Man’s the bad child of the universg.
—James Oppenheim.
not Nature, she hath done
Do thou but thine.
—Milton-Paradise I.ost.
Accuse
her part;
For my part getting seems not
so easy by half as lying.
—Hood-Morning Meditations
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The fickleness of the woman I love
| . .
lis only equalled by the infernal con=
stancy of the women who love me.
— Bernard Shaw—The Philanderer.’
Tvery library should try to be com-
plete on something if it were only the
history of pinheads.
—Holmes,
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Newspapers always excite curiosity.
No one ever lays. one down without a
i feeling of disappointment.
| : — Charles Lamb.
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