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THE DALLAS POST, DALLAS, PA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1931.
The Dallas Post, Tnc.
ESTABLISHED 1889
Publication Office
Lehman Avenue, Dallas, Pennsylvania
H.W. RISTEY: hh seni deiie on ......Managing Editor and Treasurer
: Member Pennsylvania, Newspaper Publishers Association
Member Circulation Audit Bureau
Member American Press Association
Published by
THE DALLAS POST, INC.
THe DALLAS POST 1s a youthful weekly rural-suburban newspaper,
owned, edited and operated by young men interested in the development of the
highest ideals of journalism. Thirty-one surrounding communities contribute
weekly articles to THE POST and have an interest in its editorial policies.
THE POST is truly “more than a newspaper, it is a community institution.”
x Congress shall make no law * * * abridging the freedom of speech, or of
Press.—From the first amendment to the Constitution of the United States.
Subscription, $2.00 Per Year (Payable in Advance)
THE DALLAS POST PROGRAM
THE DALLAS POST Will lend its support and offers the use of its
columns to all projects which will help this community and the great rurai-
suburban territory which it serves to attain the following major improve-
- ments:
1. Municipal lighting plant.
A free library located in the Dallas region.
3. Better andi adequate street lighting in Trucksville, Shavertown, Fern-
and Dallas. :
4. Sanitary sewage disposal system for Dallas.
~ B. Closer co-operation between. Dallas borough and surrounding town-
ships. : ’
6. Consolidated high schools and better co-operation between those that
now exist.
: 7. The appointment of a shade tree commission toi supervise the protec-
tion and see to the planting of shade trees along the streets of Dallas, Shav-
ertown, Trucksville and Fernbrook. .
‘8. The formation of a Back Mountain Club made up of business men and
home owners interested in the development of a community consciousness in
Dallas, Trucksville, Shavertown and Fernbrook.
‘9. A modern concrete highway leading from Dallas and connecting the
Sullivan Trail at Tunkhannock.
10. The elimination of petty politics and all School Boards in the region
covered by THE DALLAS POST.
11. Adequate water supply for fire protection.
12. And all other projects which help to make the Back Mountain section
a better place to live! in.
The Post urges all subscribers to make every possible effort to pay
their subscriptions promptly upon expiration. |
This is dictated by several considerations, chief of |
PAY which is the evident fact that only through the con-|
YOUR tinued loyal support of our readers can we continue to |
SUBSCRIPTION publish the type newspaper that we have given this sec-|
| tion. Another fact, also self-evident, is that the pay-|tended to be frivolus—a hollow frivo- | The Post is a Whiff from home al- | ly rooted with distributed might.
ment of a few dollars will not hurt any subscriber, while the non-payment of lity that failed pathetically and show- [though there are more
“many of these accounts will seriously affect our business.
ask prompt payment of subscription accounts by our loyal subscribers.
* ® *
Shortly before
tion from the two upper classes of Dallas Borough high school for publica-
tion in the “Letters to the Editor” column of that
ON issue:
FREE The letter arrived too late for publication, and
SPEECH was therefore not included in the issue. The Post is
anxious to publish all letters of public interest in the
“I etters to the Editor” column, but assumes no responsibility for the con-
tributions published. Therefore all letters must be signed when written by
adults and must be devoted to subjects of public interest.
Since the letter contributed last week by the students had neither the
written approval of the high school teachers nor the endorsement of the
students’ parents we are unable to publish it. The letter was concerned
with matters of public interest and was written with all of the frankness
of youth.
Since the writers were all minors, The Post would have had to assume
full responsibility for the letter if published and this we refuse to do. If
the students will have their letter approved by their teachers or their par-
ents we will be glad to publish it. We are not pttempting to throttle free
speech, all we ask is that the responsibility be taken by those who con-
tribute to the “Letters to the Editor” column. This is especially true of
letters of a controversial nature.
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The economic history of mankind may be divided into two periods—the
period of paucity, and the period of plenty. Paucity permitted competition.
? Plenty compels cooperation.
FAT
YEARS he clutches at his rescuer’s throat, it is not fatal, for
ARE :
LEAN the rescuer may stand up and drag the frightened man
to safety.
water he must help his rescuer or they will both drown.
d When the world had too little in goods and the means of production,
competition wis perhaps inevitable. The means of social contact were few,
for the making and using of things were local. Since there was no stan-
~ dardization in the production and consumption of goods, there was diver-
sity in social habit, in political theory, and in the thought entertained as
to the means of achieving national ambitions: The cement of commerce
and of credit was thin and week. Men had different philosophies, different
gods, different conceptions of biological life itself. For each community
to protect what it had and to get more of it was the natural dictate.
But now we are in a different dispensation.
Therefore, we [ed plainly he was thinking mainly of
‘press time last week The Post received a communica- |
Suppose a man is drowning in shallow water. It
But if the desperate swimmer is in deep
8 ool |
We have not too little, only be enacted but also rigidly enforced.
&
SECOND
THOUGHTS
By Meditator
SOCIAL NOTE
If, as the alarmists predict, Ameri-
ca’s social structure collapses some
day and is replaced by a system simi-
lar to Russia’s current scheme, this
scrivener, as a sworn misogynist who
nevertheless cannot 100k upon a new-
ly wedded pair without heaving a
sentimental sigh, will pledge his sup-
port to the survival of those whim-
sical and poetic factors which are a
part of our hymeneal ventures.
Our latest observation is that the
much-feared Russian propoganda
against ‘marriage has had little ef-
fect generally on the solemnity and
sincerity with which two normal
Americans (excluding, naturally, mo-
tion picture actresses and racketeers)
enter into matrimony.
They may scoff at the sentimentalist
and proclaim themselves as 7 propo-
nents. of a new and less strict union
but when the time grows near for
the tying of the nuptial knot all ar-
tificiality is dropped and the betrothed
act a great deal as did their grand-
mothers and grandfathers.
We have suspected for months but
we could present no definite proof un-
til last week when we were privileged
to observe closely the mechanics of
a wedding which, incidentally, mark-
ed the end of single blessedness for a
man we had known since the days
whe he played marbles with your
correspondent.
Despite the fact that the events
surrounding the wedding were amaz-
ingly modern and bride and bride-
groom, you epistolarian noted, dis-!
played reactions that were hopelessly |
old-fashioned and naive, according to |
the fast and fancy ideas presented by |
popular present-day novelists, long-|
run plays and successful movie at- |
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land in 1812 that other, and only other,
| blend of great General and great
tractions.
My bride and groom were hopeless- |
ly in -love. They were serious about
ally the flustered bridegroom) pre-|
jeveryining, though they (and especi- |
| his good-wife-to-be. Just before the |
wedding they became humorously old- |
fashioned. © They hurled things about |
frantically, forgot important items,
| velled at their attendants and boasted
| loudly they were not a bit excited.
| After the wedding they abandoned
|all plans and schedules and, with very
old-fashioned enthusiasm, began bath-
ing in their very evident happiness.
Three hours behind schedule they left
on their wedding trip while everyone
shouted old-fashioned blessings and
old-fashioned advice. Scoffing, so-
phisticated modernity had been routed
completely.
We force these notes upon you as
a proof of our theory that weddings
are still made in Heaven. Our mar-
riages, at least, have escaped artifi-
ciality and insincerity, and your col-
umnist, ‘for one, will agree with the
character in the Tempest who Tre-
marked: “Look down, you Gods, And
on this couple drop a blessed crown!”
TALE
One of the strangest stories we have
heard concerns a physician who lives
not far from here and who recently
refused $60,000 for a valuable serum
iwhich he discovered and which attracts
to his dingy office patients from as
far West as the Mississippi.
The amount to be paid him, our in-
formant said, was ample, but the
physician refused to sign the con-
tract because the purchasers would
not agree to sell the valuable serum
for $1.00 an injection or less.
‘A character himself, according to
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| Statesthan alone ruled one-half of
Wants Better Name | Europe. With the passing of
3509 Burke Ave. | Napoleon's dictatorship the glory
Seattle, Wash. lot France faded until this bpre-
Dear Sir:— sent day when Nations are more firm-
unfamiliar | Spain's proud Armada ruled the Seas
| while England has had her fluctiona-
names than familiar names.
tions in the market of rulership.
The Great War, as we have come to
term it, re-made the miap of Europe.
Four Empires died to make way, by
their disintegration, for the birth of
a dozen new nations. America, re
turned from that conflict a new and
great world power; placed there at
the outcome by the violent eruption
alone and not by design whereby other
nations had fought for centuries for
their hour in the sun.
Germany and France will
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require
I want to make a suggestion. Find /
a better sounding your |
name for
country than terming it “The Back |
Country.” It always grates on me |
and my husband teases me saying— |
“you had better write and tell them |
about it” so now I am telling Fou.
That is a beautiful country and that |
name is misleading.
Find a new name, make a feature |
of it in your paper. The new name |
the country and towns it comprises,
until people become familiar with it
and call it that.
Now I have done my part and so |
I am not going to worry anymore |
about it. |
Yours truly,
Mrs. E. M. Allen.
Thirteen Years After
Dear Editor:—
It becomes increasingly difficult in
the face of such a Iegion of armed
and brillant critics to think aloud.
This is, however, just that;—a thought
and not a theory. When one harbors
a theory one allows room for convic-
tion; and fact clamors for admission.
But seasoned with logic this becomes
a, dainty piece to chew upon in spite
of the truth that the tempo of his-
ory is hard to judge correctly. We
must view the future, that tetra col-
ored indefiniteness, with eyes that have {
seen the past, for in mo other way
can we attempt to visualize the ab-
stract, whether it be history, theology
or whatnot. Since prophecy is guess
work it is wise to refrain from pro-
phecy.
Ancient Rome once held sway over
billboards and signs has often been
past decade:
THE
HIGHWAY
PARASITES
The desecration of scenic vistas along state highways by ill-placed
Some
passed laws limiting the erection of billboards, but, like
so much other legislation, the laws fare not strictly en- |
forced. It is now time that some legislation in the vari- |
ous states against the sign board menace should not!
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debated and talked about during the
states, including Pennsylvania,
YX have only to look around
you in Charles Rogers’ home
to discover his favorite hobby.
There will be a trombone on a
table, a banjo in a chair, gleaming
saxophones—big, little and middle-
sized—scattered about. For music
js such an absorbing hobby with
‘but too much. Our industrial collapses ensue not Upon failures of €10ps, Regardless of public indignation against the defacement of scenic road-
but upon overabundance. We are irestened nov with the niggardliness of ways by billboards, the offense appears to be more Widen and every. your.
nature, but with the crushing weight of man’s own industry. Nations are | Noi only unsightly billboards, but crude roadside stands and
habituated to the exchange of goods, and are committen to the sharing ofl oilont are bethming dre namerots. These, too, should
economic confidence. We are in deep water, wih Ouy arms interlocked. the legislation. We suggest that, not only should the number be limited, but |
: On pregent difficulty 8 that the theory of rivalry—economic, religious, a certain degree of conservation should be enforced in the colors and sizes |
political, cultural—survives perniciously into the new condition which re- At he. oictent time 4 7 not ‘on iran
quires mutual helpfulness. Paradoxically, paucity of knowledge and of sight to have a gorgeous view ot some verdant valley completely spoiled, if
wealth permitted of waste, while plethora necessitates conservation. We net obliterated, by a latge, unsightly sian; printed in 2 many colors os the |
may or may not be too proud to fight, but we are certainly too strong to rainbow, and depicting the unsurpassed elegance of some brand of laxative; |
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gaudy gasoline
be included in |
of these highways parasites:
fight, The new magnitudes ip wealth and by ie il gn i or perhaps, a red and blue service station peacefully basking in the sun-|
difference in kind. Unless we agree to coor nate our efforts, we shall alli 1+ beside some silvery brook.
be overwhelmed, for we are launched together in a common sea with fath- |
oms beneath us and leagues about us.—International Disa:mament Notes.
Towards the close of the last session of Congress a bill was introduced |
limiting billboards. Unfortunately the proposed bill was automatically killed |
i when Congress adjourned without taking any action on it. It is hoped that |
The most victorious war is a misfortune, not only for the conquered | the bill will be re-proposed in the coming session and that some favorable ac-
tion will be taken upon it. |
* * *
~ but for the conqueror as well.—General Von Moltke.
Charles—“Buddy” no longer please
—that he spends the vast majority
of his leisure time with one or an-
other of the twelve musical instru-
ments which he can play.
At home, he has a music room
which contains, in addition to a
fabulous collections of horns and
stringed instruments, his newest
and dearest plaything, It is an elec-
tric reproducing piano especially
made for him which plays in any
key, if you simply turn a switch
to “A” or “Cor “B Hat.’ : It
provides an ideal accompaniment
for his tireless rehearsing. The
Rogers family is accustomed to
hearing popular tunes emerge from
this room in new and snappy ar-
rangements at any hour of the
twenty-four which Charles happens
to have free.
Nor does his love for music stop
there. He is studying voice with
a Mexican trainer of opera stars
CHARLES ROGERS
extend to the field of opera for him-
self he loves to hear opera and
never failg to attend when he is in
New York or elsewhere during the
opera season, It may be hard to
picture the irrepressible Buddy sit-
ting spellbound at a performance
of Siegfried—but this young man
who is taking his career more seri-
ously these days than ever before
and working hard to build up a fol-
lowing in mature and difficult roles,
has many serious interests.
However, one of his hobbies is
in character with the juvenile
“Buddy” whom women adore, He
likes girls and he’s not a bit aloof
about it. Being a bachelor and,
as you may have noticed, not hard
on the eye, he is very well thought
of by the pretty young stars who
live in Hollywood. He isn’t the
“heartbreaker” type, but dates up
movie stars just as he did Univer-
ago. Summer nights, you may see
him in white flannels, a mandolin
under the other, bound for a Holly-
wood veranda. He's very thought-
ful. If June Collyer likes choco-
late creams and Mary Brian pre-
fers toffee, Charles ‘always remems=
bers. X
and while his aspirations do not
sity of Kansas co-eds a few years.
under one arm and a box of candy
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