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DALLAS POST, DALLAS,
PA., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1930
The Dallas Post
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The Dallas Post will lend its sup-
port and offers the use of its columns
to all projects: which will help this
community and the great rural-subur-
ban territory which it serves to at-
%ain the following major improve-
meats:
1. A free library located in the Dal-
. las region. ;
2. Better and adequate street light-
ing in Trucksville, Shavertown,
Fernbrook and Dallas.
8. 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.
8. 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.
7. , The formation of a Back Moun-
tain Club made up of business
: men and homeowners interested
' in the development of local insti-
Y - tutions, the organization of new
ones and the development of a
community consciousness in Dal-
las, Trucksville, Shavertown and
Fernbrook.
8. A modern concrete highway lead-
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the Sullivan Trail at Tunkhan-
nock.
9. 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-
i tion a better place to live in.
ARM BOYS AND GIRLS
30.
There is only thing about the an-
nual gathering of 4-H Club boys and
sition that ought to be different. That
girls at the National Livestock Expo-|
is the fact that all of the city folks
in the United States can’t go to Chi-
cago this week and see the kind of
young folks the farms of America are
bringing up today.
If we had our way about running]
this 4-H club affair, we'd arrange to
pull off an exhibit of city youngsters
at the same time and place and invite |
all of the cocktail-drinking city smart-|
Alecs, cigarette-smoking “society”
women and snooty: “modern” critics of
everything that is sound and whole-
some in America to come and com-
pare the two groups.
We know which group would win.
Our money would be down on the 4-H
boys and girls.
Seriously, we feel that there is
nothing whatever to worry about con-
cerning the future of the United
States, rmuch less the future of Ameri-
can rural life, so long as the farms of
the nation to continue to produce
young men and young women of the
types which make up the 4-H clubs.
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| one for'which you won the Farm Bur-
Mrs. Friese, we salute you! We've
never met you, but we admire you. |
We admire anybody who can think up|
let alone cook, such a dinner as the]
eau prize. We like your dinner. That
1s to say, we like to read about it.
We are sorry we couldn’t have been at
your house on Thanksgiving Day tof
eat it. Not that we didn’t have a
god Thanksgiving Day dinner at our
house; we did. In fact, one of the
things we like about your dinner is
that it was just such a typical Ameri-
can Thanksgiving dinner as nine-tenths
of the coutry folks of American sat
down to last Thursday—and a big per-
centage of city folks as well.
We are not prepared ‘to admit that
theer are no cooks in our town who
could have given Mrs. Friese a run for
her money if they had entered the |
Both major parties are tightening
their lines for the Presidential cam-
paign of 1932. The Republicans know
.they have a fight on their hands to
retain control of the Presidency; the
~ Democrats believe that if they can
agree upon a candidate acceptable to
all sections of the country they can
win easily.
That is frequently the situation two
years before a Presidential election.
It does not always follow that the
Farm Bureau contest. In fact, we know| “out” party wins over the “ins.”
several ladies who, in our humble! Having possession of the machinery
od : k k 3 of Government is a great advantage.
judgment, can. make a cook stove At the moment it looks as if it
will be more difficult for the Demo-
crats te agree upon a candidate who
can rally all Democrats to his sup-
port than for the Republicans to mend
their political fences.
JONES
“Bobby” Jones has at last answered
the question: How can a man play
golf all the time and still keep his
law practice going? The answer is
that he can’t. Bobby is giving up
golf, except as a means of recreation.
It remains to be seen whether Mr.
Jones will do as well in law as he
has done in golf. He has proved that
he has the important quality of thor-
oughness. Those who know him say he
has a natural taste for law, and high
intelligence. He will not have the
struggle for existence which so many
young lawyers face, for while his
amateur standing has kept him from
making money out of his game, he is
to get a sum, reputed to be a quarter
of a million dollars, for making a
series of educational films on “How I
Play Golf.” That ought to keep him
going until he has established himself
in law.
Probably Mr. Jones is doing only
what his class and caste instincts and
environment urge upon him. There
are still too many people who think
that being a lawyer is a more re-
spectable way of making a living than
being a golf professional. But it
seems to me that we have too many
lawyers now and not enough good
sportsmen. :
BELASCO
David Belasco, a San Francisco
Jew who dressed like a Roman Catho-
lic priest, was the father of the modern
realistic drama. He thought that
people on the stage ought to act and
talk the way people do in real life,
and that the settings and furniture of
the stage ought to make the scenes
look like the sort of places they were
supposed to represent.
Belasco’s work in drama began
perform more miracles than' Edison
ever dreamed of. And we feel that
Mrs. Friese. won this contest because
she stuck to tradition and got up pre-
cisely the same kind of a Thanksgiv-
ing dinner that our own folks had.
There was turkey, of course. Can't
have a real Thanksgiving dinner with-
out turkey—wijth parsley dressing and
giblet sauce. - And cranberry ice, and
glazed sweet potatoes and mince pie
and pumpkin pie, besides all the other
vegetables and “fixings” that go to
makeup a genuine old-fashioned
Thanksgiving dinner. We just aren't
going to put them down here. We'd
starve to death waiting to get home
to dinner if we didn’t stop writing
about good thingse to eat right now.
What we were starting out to say is
that with all the new-fangled notions
about balanced meals and reducing
diets and vitamins and calories and
such-like, we had been wondering the
art of cooking wasnt’ coming a lost
art, outside of the homes of those lad-
ies we spoke about a little way back.
It’s not, praise be! The country is
safe. There are still good coks left ir:
the land ,and they know what a good
dinner ought to consist of, and Mrs.
Friese and the five hundred others
who competed for the Farm Bureau
are not all of them, by a long way.
CHRISTMAS CAROLS
By Edmund Hamilton Sears
It ‘came upon the midnight clear,
That glorious song of old,
From angels bending near the earth
To touch their harps of gold;
“Peace on the earth, good will to men
From. heaven's all-gracious King”
The world in solemn stillness lay 2 3
To hear the angels sing. | about the time Mr. Edison mvented
| = the incandescent electric light. The
electric light probably did as much as
any other influence to change the
drama from the old .ranting panto-
mime into what it is today. It enabled
Still through the
come
With peaceful wings unfurled,
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And still their heavenly music floats .
O'er all the weary world; | the audience to see the actors clearly,
cloven skies they |
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If vou want to return that little kiss, | entire history of adventure, discovery,
I'll take it back—I will. | and exploration. It was the pursuit of
—By Unknown. gold that brought the Spaniards to
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of this continent. The lure ;of gold
Day of the Gold |dréw the pioneers over the Rocky
| Mountains to California. The discov-
Rush Is Over
Romance of Great Gold Fileds Played
An Important Part in World
Development
Africa laid the foundation for the pres-
ent control and prosperity of those re-
gions.
| The rewards are so great for the
| fortunate prospetcor who discovers a
Afra SE | gold mine, that every new rumor of
By Caleb Johnson | such a, discovery starts a gold rush, in
“Gold, Gold, Gold, Gold— | which thousands and tens of thousands
Hard to get, and heavy to hold.” [risk everything in the hope of getting,
From the beginning of recorded time, | not exactly something for nothing, but
the pursuit of gold has been perhaps | great wealth at little cost to them-
the most fascinating occupation known | selves. It is a gamble, of course, for
ery of gold in Australia and in South |
[ taking anything away from those who
| lose. :
But the great gold rushes of the past
| are matters of the dead and buried
past, and there is now no likelihood
of another great gold strike anywhere
in the world. That is the considered
League’s experts say that in the next
gold situation. Since the year
there has been no increase in the an-
nual production of gold, = and the
League’s experts say that in the next
ten years the annual supply of gold
will have fallen off by at elast 2% per
cent.
The known gold fields of the world
are. becoming exhausted and almost
the whole earth has been combed for
new and undiscovered gold. fields.
There are a few points which have
opinion of the gold delegation of the. °
completed a world wide survey of the .
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to , man. every such prospectdr, but it is a gam-
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Above its sad and lowly plains | - and made facial expression and care-
They bend on hovering wing, Jl makeup more important than they
and oysriger 3s Babel sounds | Belasco was the first theatrical pro-
The blessed angels sing. ducer to realize the possibilities of
electric lighting on the stage and to
shape his productions with the new
lighting in mind. Today everybody
in the theatre business, including the
movie producers, follow the principles
which Belasco developed.
PROHIBITION
All the reports from thnse who
profess to know indicate that the
President's Commission on Law En-
forcement, better known as the Wick-
ersham Commission, will report that
the present Prohibition law cannot be
enforced, and wil recommend some
changes.
There will be more serious attempts
made at the coming session of Con-
gress to break down the “dry” law
than at any time since it was enacted.
There is little likelihood of anything
being accomplished by the “wets” at
3ut with the woes of sin and strife
The world has suffered long;
Beneath the angel-strain have rolled
The man ,at war with man, hears not
The love-song which they bring;—
Oh, hush the noise, ye men of strife,
And hear the angels sing.
For lo! the days are hastening on
By prophet bards foretold,
When with the ever circling years
Comes ‘round the age of gold;
When Peace shall over all the earth
Its ancient splendors fling,
And the whole world give back the
song,
Which now the angels sing.
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THE JOY
They call this annual show in Chicago
a Livestock Exposition. It is that, of
course, but it seems to us that by far!
the most important exhibit there ic!
these healthy, industrious, energetic,
‘enthusiastic, wholesome young peo-
ple who are sent from every part of
the country because they have won
outstanding success in farming and
home-making.
The country districts of the United
States can challenge the cities to show
their equal. We know of no compar-
able movement in the cities looking to-
ward development of the qualities of
Hand, Heart, Head and Health which
are the four “H’s” of the 4-H clubs.
City youngsters may average ' smart-
er’ in dress and manners, though we
question the latfer. But the important
things of life are not those which ap-
pear on the surface. It 1s character
alone that counts, in the long run; and
we know of no finer builder of fine
character than the 4-H clubs.
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THE BLUE RIBBON OF COOKING
Sam H. Thompson, President of the
American Farm Bureau Federation,
has awarded the title of ‘‘Culinary
Champion of all Farm Women Cooks
in America” to Mrs. M. L. Friese, of
Redwood Falls, Minnesota. Mrs. Friese
won the first prize offered by the Fed-
eration for the best Thanksgiving din-
ner menu; in competition with some
500 p “er farm women in every part
nited States.
of the
this last session of the 71st Congress,
but if the Wickersham report proves
to be friendly to the modification of
WAGON
Set Your Troubles Aside and
Take a Ride the present law, watch for fireworks
| pos NS a when the Congress just elected begins
Student (leavin college) “Good 5 Somany
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| bye, sir. I want to thank you for all FOOTBALL
| I. have learned from you.” It took the appeal of charity to
Professor: “Don’t mention it—it’s| bring the Army and Navy football
nothing at all.” teams together, For several years
| i] the annual Army-Navy game has been
Jones: “Describe your sister's new; omitted, because of a quarrel over
baby.” points of sportsmanship.
Brown: “Small features, red-faced, When the two teams meet in New
York on December 13, it will be
frankly for the purpose of helping to
raise money for the relief of unem-
ployment. Early estimates of the re-
ceipts indicate that they may run to
a million dollars, or almost as much
as ‘the “gate” at the last Tunney-
Dempsey fight.
It is a strange but interesting kink
of human nature that people will pay
fancy prices to see a football game
for charity, who would never think of
giving the same amourit of money
clean-shaven and a hard drinker."
“What was your last occupation?”
“An umbrella mender in the middle -
west this summer.”
“My razor's awfully dull, dear, I can
can hardly shave with it.”
“Why, Charles, you don’t, mean to
tell me that your beard is tougher than
the linoleum!’
| Joe: “How were your grades las:| outright.’ As high as $5,000 was of-
quarter?” fered for a box at the Yankee Stadium
College: “Jules Verne.” as soon as the Army-Navy engage-
Joe: “How's that?” ment was announced. i
College: “Twenty thousand leagues te
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STOLEN KISS
under the C.”
Mrs. Gushing: “My daughter has
talent.
Did I hurt you when I kissed you?
wonderful musical Whers| T saw a © 'rt look in your eyes;
would suggest sending her for voice| were ou ary or just frightened?
culture?” Tell me was il a surprise?
Mrs. Gnashing (new neighbor across| Did you ren! 'y resent, it,
the hall, speakin«= very quickly): “Ob,
by all means, se: ager abroad!” i
Or don’t vou really know?
Are you satisfied and conten.ed?
Gee—I hope so,
Two microbes sat on a pantry shelf
And watched, with expression pained,
The milkman’s stunts, and they both
said at once,
“Our relations are getting stiuiged.”
Life is a game of give and take
But it is better to give than receive,
}And I honestly believe
That you'd her give
B take
a last-minute jam.
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