d he Dallas Post, a
Sr ESTABLISHED 1889
Publication Office :
Lehman Avenue, Dallas, Pennsylvania,
....Managing Editor and Treasurer
Member Pennsylvania Newspaper Publishers Association
Member Circulation Audit Bureau.
Member American Press Association.
Published by
THE DALLAS POST, INC.
He DALLAS POST 1s a youthful weekly rural-suburban newspaper,
d, edited and operated by young men interested in the development of the
rural-suburban region of Luzerne County and in the attainment of the
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chest ideals of journalism. Thirty-one surrounding communities contribute
eekly articles to THE POST and have an interest in its editorial policies.
POST is truly “more than a newspaper, it is a community institution.”
ngress shall make no law * * * abridging the freedom of speech, or of
From the first amendment to the Constitution of the United States.
Subscription, $2.00 Per Year (Payable in Advance).
THE {DALLAS POST PROGRAM
| projects which will help this community and the great rural-suburban
ry which it serves to attain the following major improvements:
1. Municipal Highiing plant.
A free library located in the Dallas region.
Better and adequate street lighting in Trucksville, Shavertown, Fern-
00k and Dallas. ’
4. Sanitary sewage disposal system for Dallas. >
.* Closer co-operation between Dallas borough and surrounding townships.
Consolidated high schools and better co-operation between those that
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ee to the planting of shade trees alongf the streets of Dallas, Shavertown,
ckeville and Fernbrook. 2
The formation of a Back Mountain Club made up of business men and
me owners interested in the development of a community consciousness in
las, Trucksville, Shavertown and Fernbrook.
A modern concrete highway leading from Dallas and oophecting the
ivan Trail at Tunkhannock.
‘The elimination of petty politics from Dallas Borough Council and all
ool Boards in the region covered by THE DALLAS POST.
i Adequate water supply for fire protection.
: Zor the hopes of young men to be serious and high,” |
said a college president addressing newly
arrived freshmen. :
The hopes of the young usually are
higher and more serious than their elders
7 realize. In times like these when many old
ories and practices have proved inadequate in directing
| affairs, it is more important than ever that the
g should be encouraged to back up their hopes with
'thinking. They must be taught that the achievement
gh hopes calls for painstaking, courageous and stead-
“endeavor. \
‘Educators in colleges and high schools have tremen-
dous responsibility always, but especially this year when
hoping, in order to achieve fulfilment must be followed by
ourageous thinking and doing along new lines.
A thoughtful school teacher remarked recently, “I
m sorry for the young men just now. It is hard enough
for them to find themselves in normal
times. It is terribly hard under present
conditions.”
There is the matter of jobs, for one
thing. When they are so scarce, the
young ‘man can’t “choose a career,” start at the bottom
and get busy. He has to take what he can get, regardless
his taste and ability. :
In the young teacher’s opinion, society’s standards
are all topsy-turvy. Justice, obedience to law, honor, pres-
‘tige have all been abused by men and women in high places
. The outlook is bad, one must admit The teacher in
contact with the troubled young men doubtless sees their.
‘problems more clearly than do people less intimately con-
nected with them. Yet the very obstacles to success and
appiness which seem to stand in their way may prove
; ultimately helpful. A prominent educator has said that he
finds one cheerful fact in the depression, “It has inspired
houghtfulness in those fitting themselves for life.”
T
Midnight at a chicken coop. Own-
er raps on the door, “Anybody in
there?”
Voice from the chicken coop, “Only
us chickens boss.”
“A DREAM ROMANCE”
me, Love, Let's go a-riding
In the full moon’s silvery light;
We'll sit astride a moonbeam
So, press close, and hold me tight!
we'll canter into dreamland,
‘Where the elves and fairies play;
‘Where dwarfs and pixies gather,
~ And little gnonies hold sway.
We'll eat in plateau gardens,
i And we'll drink refreshing dew;
And I'll buy a lacy 'kerchief
Made of spiderwebs, for you,
‘And a pair of woolly mittens,
Fashioned by a goblin’s hand;
And a little coat of gossamer,
The finest in the land! =~
‘The clouds will yield us silver,
And we'll make a gown for you;
or buttons we’ll use daisies,
And for trimmings, bits of dew.
Quite early in the morning,
Ere the sun begins to shine,
We'll gallop back to earth again,
~~ And dream another time!
By Marguerite X. Lynch,
June 18, 1931.
Wilkes-Barre, Pa,
TO THE
DITOR
September 28, 1931.
Editor
Dallas Post,
Dallas, Pa.
Dear Sir:
I have just finished reading the ar-
ticle which appeared in your late pas
per entitled “Not to make Life easier,
But Men Stronger” and I want to con-
gratulate you on this very fine piece
of work.
Being connected with a small Bans
in a ‘community similiar to your own
perhaps makes the article seem better
but must confess that I have done a
lot of reading and have as yet not
found anything that will compare
with your article and feel it my duty
to so inform you.
© More articles that are like this one
would do more to restore confidence
than all the other remedies put to-
gether.
Trusting that you may continue to
give your readers just such reading
matter of the better kind I am
Yours very truly,
Earl B. Hess,
Assistant Cashier.
Nescopeck National Bank.
P. S.—I am going to show this ar-
ticle to our local paper and trust the’
editor will publish it. I also have
mounted it on Cardboard and am post-
ing it in our Bank. Your Bank should
be mighty proud of its local Press.
a
The Dallas Post,
Dallas, Penna. ~
My dear sir:
Will you kindly make a correction
concerning an item listed in the Maple
Grove items of this week’s paper. It
reads thus: “Miss Lucille Hewitt en-
.|tertained the Epworth Leagues of
Trucksville and Dorranceton at a corn
roast at Goodwin’s, Lake
last week.”
The roast was a weiner roast and
was given by the Trucksville Epworth
League, Dorranceton attending also. I
did not entertain the leagues, but was
only one of the chaperones.
I will appreciate very much this cor-
rection because my work is with
groups all over this district and it
would be very illogical for me to en-
tertain one or two groups and not the
others. I do not want anyene to think
that I have done so. You will make
the correction in the Maple Grove
items, if you will please. Thank you.
I am,
‘Silkworth,
Lucille I. Hewitt
—_—
Some where in Penna.
' September 28, 1931
Dear Editor:
I am submitting the enclosed “little
verse” for your consideration. Is it
fit to print, or not to print, -is the
question? Your action will most fully
answer everything. I shall carefully:
Paramount Photo
S PORTS have always been a
hobby with Fredric March—as
a child, in his college days and
now. At the University of Wiscon-
sin, he won his football letter and
was a member of the track squad.
He outspokenly opposes those
who claim that athletic training in
school does nothing toward fitting
one for life, He believes that the
swift regime which he has followed
much of the time in Hollywood
would have been impossible for
‘him without an athletic back-
jground. Certainly this schedule
| has been as strenuous, at times, as
any training season. For a con-
siderable period, March worked all
| day at the Paramount studio on a
i picture which demanded much ac-
tion and then appeared in a Los
‘Angeles theater at night, with Wed-
nesday and Saturday matinees.
Somehow he managed to find tire
for sports—swimming, riding and
dds Simihih ni
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sean the next edition of your most
valuable paper. I am, dear editor,
Yours most truly
John Doe, M. D.
Present address, unknown.
The Wail of an old Physician
If I could only look inside of my
patients,
To see what is radically wrong,
And select the therapeutic agent,
To make them feel younger and
strong,
I would advertise in the Dallas
Post, :
And the ailing would come in a
throng.
I would bathe in that lucre, called
filthy,
And take another drink and move
on.
. Anon.
FREDRIC MARCH
tennis. And yet many people be-
lieve that the movie stars lead lives
of indolent luxury!
Fredric March believes that
training rules, which he followed
during football seasons and before
track meets, are still useful in his
career in pictures. For instance,
she finds that a few pieces of candy
at tnat “low” period which descends
on the world at four p. m. or be-
tween acts at an evening perform-
ance work wonders in supplying
fresh energy. He strongly opposes
fanatical training rules for athletes
or others.
Fredric March has several quiet-
er hobbies, such as reading and
music. His versatility of interest
was apparent in his school days,
when he distinguished himself in
scholarship, made the senior honor-
ary society and was president of
the senior class, in addition to win.
ning his letter,
Trucksville, Pa.,
September 29, 1931.
Editor The Post,
\
Dear Sir:
Leonard Morgan, County Controll
ler, has held up the pay of several
hundred men who worked on the
county roads before election. Mr.
Morgan is convinced that the spend-
ing of so much money on the roads
before election was a waste of the
taxpayers’ money. He is in the Con-
troller’s office to guard against such
waste. It he approves the payment of
the money he is not keeping faith
with the people who elected him.
I understand that certain
newspapers have refused to publish
any news regarding Mr. Morgan's ac-
tion. Why do these newspapers, sup-
posedly serving the interests of the
subscribers refuse to print news cf
such importance? Tt can’t be because
they are afraid of the politicians? I
have often looked at the sentiment
cut in stone on one of the newspaper's
offices and wondered how close that
‘raise but would rather not.
City,
newspaper came to those
words.
pretty
Size of Hivestuibni. big presses and
hundreds of workers do not make a
real newspaper.
counts. I've heard people laugh
when the name Dallas Post was men-
tioned but for honesty I'll match it
against any of the big papers.
Continue giving us news like you
did last week. The news that's left
out of the city papers is more inter-
esting than what they print, except
the comic pictures and the continued
story.
A reader.
X could answer the question you
Just this
word in explanation, newspapers are
not public institutions. They are pri-
vate institutions established to make
profit for their owners. The stuff
about “serving the people” was Sstart-
ed in the early days when newspaper
editors were more interested in public
issues than profits, and when news-
paper plants involved small invest-
ments instead of big ones. Many
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In the early morning fog of October
4, 1777, George Washington, with char-
acteristic vigor and decision, attacked
the British troops at Germantown,
Pennsylvania. The Americans sup-
posedly dispirited by their recent de-
feat at Brandywine, Howe considered
incapable of so bold a stroke.
But General Washington made a
night march in order to surprise the
enemy. He believed he had succeeded
and wrote Congress to that effect, but
evidence r obtained from British
s the complete surprise
hat doubtful.
e, the Americans at first
ded toward complete vic-
nington and his officers be-
when suddenly the
ccompanying mili-
re thrown into unexpected con-
ision. Instead of following up the
advantage gained at first, Washing-
ton saw his men hastily retreat.
This battle, says the United States
Georg# Washington Bicentennial Com-
mission, was one of the half dozen or
so of the Revolutionary conflicts in
which General Washington command-
ed in person. Unfortunately he was
denied victory by circumstances over
which he had no control. Despite his
repulse, however, the great American
leader had acted on the offensive and
had given Howe sufficient reason to
fear for his safety. He once more, as
at Trenton and Princeton, showed
himself to be a dangerous adversary
able to strike quickly and with telling
effect.
On October 5. Washington wrote to
the President of Congress an account
of the battle. The attack was deter-
mined upon, Washington said, after it
was learned that Howe had weakened
the post by sending some of his troops
to the Delaware. It was arranged to
attack Germantown on all sides at
once; and the morning of October 4,
was fixed as the time.
“We marched about ‘seven o'clock
the preceding evening,” wrote Wash-
ington, “and General Sullivan’s ad-
vanced party, drawn from Conway's
brigade, attacked their picket at
Mount Airy or Mr. Allen’s house,
about sunrise the next morning, which
presently gave way; and his main
body, consisting of the right wing,
following soon, engaged the light in-
fantry and other troops encamped
near the picket, which they forced
from their ground. Leaving their bag-
gage, they retreated a considerable
distance, having previously thrown a
party into Mr. 'Chew’s house, who
were in a situation not be be easily
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When Victory Shpall
From Washington’s Grasp
forced, and had it in their power, from
the windows, to give us no small an-
noyance, and in a great measure to
obstruct our advance.”
The delay occasioned by the attempt
to take this garrison operated, togeth-
er with the foggy darkness, to con-
fuse the Americans. The firing at
this place led the troops who had pas-
sed it to believe a change in situation
had occurred, and the retreat began.
“The morning was extremely foggy,”
continued Washington’s letter, “which
prevented our improving the advan-
tages we gained, so well as. we should
otherwise have done. This circums
stance, by concealing from us the true
situation of the enemy, obliged us to
act with more caution and less expedi-
tion than we could have wished; and
gave the enemy time to recover from
the effects of our first impression; and,
what was still more unrortunate, it
served to keep our different parties in
ignorance of each other’s movements
and hinder their acting in concert. It
also occasioned them to mistake ons
another for the enemy, which I believe
more than any thing else contributed
to the misfortune that ensued. In the
midst of the most promising appear-
ances, when every thing gave the most
flattering hopes of victory, the troops
began suddenly to retreat, and entirely
left the field, in spite of every ef-
fort that could be made to rally them.
General Knox wrote that Washing=
ton, unmindful of danger to himself,
rode into the storm of bullets in am
effort to rally the fleeing Americans.
No one felt the sting of this disap-
pointing defeat as did the Command-
er-in-Chief.
“Upon the whole,” the report con-
rluded, “it may be said that the day
was rather unfortunate than injuries.
We sustained no material loss of meh,
and brought off all our arti ry, ex-
cept one! piece wich was (smounted.
The enemy are nothing the better by
the event, and our troops, who are not
in the least dispirited by it, have gain-
ed what all young troops gain by be=
ing in actions. I have the pleasure to
inform you, that both officers and men
behaved with a degree of gallantry
that did them the highest honor.”
The effect of this startling attack
was felt ir Europe, both in France and
England. Great Britain once more
had an example of Washington’s abil-
ity and courage. In France, Vergen-
nes remarked that Washington had
accomplished wonders with his prac-
tically new army, and it augured well
for the ultimate success of the Ameri-
cans.
It's the spirit that
at