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' THE DALLAS POST PROGRAM
THE DALLAS POST will lend its support and offers the use of itu
lumns to all projects which will help this community and the great rural-
ubyrban territory which it serves to attain the following major improve-
ments:
~ 1. Construction of more sidewalks for the protection of pedestrians in
Kingston township and Dallas.
2. A free library located in the Dallas region.
~ 8. Better and adequate street lighting in
rnbrook and Dallas.
4. Sanitary sewaae disposal system for Dallas.
5. Closer co-operation between Dallas borough and surrounding townships,
6. Consolidated high schools and better co-operation between those that
now exist. .
7. Adequate waten supply for fire protection. !
8. The formatien of a Back Mountain Club made up of business men and
ome owners interested in the develonment of a community consciousness in
Da as, Trucksville, Shavertown and Fernbrook.
Trucksville, Shavertown,
This newspaper has never been evasive about its atti-
Repeatedly, during the last five years The Post has op-
: posed vigorously the activities of the political machine
hich Judge Fine heads. .
~ We have neither the desire nor the motive to change
our attitude now toward the Republican
county committee but we would be extre-
mely narrow and unsportsmanlike if we
did not today doff our hats graciously in
the direction of Judge Fine.
~ Whatever cur criticism of the popular jurist, we have
ever been able to deny that he has secured for Luzerne
ounty more than its share of State patronage and good
roads. His efforts in that direction merit the highest praise.
~ Judge Fine has promised that a concrete road will con-
-nect Dallas and Tunkhannock within a year. That pledge
s the first recognition for the groups now seeking the new
‘highway. Regardless of their political affiliations, those
groups must acknowledge their obligation to the judge for
his interest.
~The Dallas Post is grateful that it can thus publicly
cknowledge its appreciation to J Judge Fine for his coopera-
ion and support.
No tributes, Judge Fine, can be higher or more sincere
‘than those from your opponents: We salute you.
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JUDGE FINE,
WE THANK
What this country needs is a few more men like Daniel
C. Roberts.
~ Mr. Roberts told Harvey’s Lake firemen at their meet-
ing last Thursday night that he would
donate $2,000 toward a community build-
ing fund. The community’s gratitude so
impressed Mr. Roberts that a few days
later he made a second announcement. He
told the firemen to start their building at once and gracious-
y assumed responsibility for the cost of the structure.
Harvey's Lake is lucky. Few communities ever hold
men of the calibre of Mr. Roberts. His generosity is unique
today. He is outstanding even among the host of public-
spirited gentlemen who head the Harvey’s Lake Fire Com-
pany.
If all men upon whom fortune has smiled were as gener-
ous and wise as Mr. Roberts there would soon be no Com-
‘munists in the world.
CHEERS FOR
‘A GENEROUS
CITIZEN
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Reports indicate that 1934 is seeing more men, women
and children killed in automobile accidents than in any pre-
vious year. Figures supplied by the National Bureau of
Casualty and Surety Underwriters show that for the first
six months of this year about 20 per cent
WHAT'S WRONGmore people were killed than in 1933, and
WITH THE the worst driving months are yet to come
MOTORIST? —September, October and November. In
1933, nearly 31,000 persons were killed. If
you add 20 per cent to this number it will amount to 37,200,
with more than 1,000,000 persons injured. The economic
loss will jump into the billions.
‘What is the matter? It is not possible that the drivers
the country have ceased to think. They would not admit
that they are willing to wipe out or cripple the population
of a large city every year. Yet, they do so, and seemingly
they don’t care.
: There must be some kind of a new germ in the air which
infects us all. Perhaps it is the speed bug. In any event, it
ompels us all to dash somewhere or nowhere in our cars
ay or night for no pressing reason. Then we come back to
he same place in the same hurry. If a man, woman or little
child gets in the way, it is just too bad. If another car, or
bus, or tree, or stone wall is in the way, that is just a tough
break.
Our authorities have been liberal in the matter of driv-
ng rules and regulations. On the whole, drivers are legally
allowed plenty of speed at all times. But this liberality does
ot extend to the point where the authorities are willing to
have an army of people killed every year. The motorists of
America should realize that the time will come when the
authorities—representatives of themselves and their neigh-
bors—will pass stricter regulations and enforce more strin-
ent penalties. If people will not exercise care for them-
selves, society as a whole must exercise it for them. There
Howe About:
Silerius’ Third Wife
Unsuitable Marriages
Cruelty of War
©, Bell Syndicate.—WNU Service.
By ED HOWE
N HIS memoirs Silerius tells most
of his relations with his ‘third wife,
which he confesses were on the whole
-more agreeable than with the other
four. (Details as to his marriages ar2
shadowy, as though some of them were
failures, but he seems to have been
married five times, and it is of his
third he speaks most in many refer-
ences to marriage, wemen and the
family life generally).
Silerius had no fault to find with
© this third woman, although he is very
severe in references to some others of
her sex. She seems to have had no
faults he did not regard as natural,
and therefore to be forgiven because
of her many virtues.
Once Silerius discovered his third
wife was jealous of him, and was as-
tonished. “She knew at our mar-
« riage,” he wrote, “that I had lived the
life of a goat. Why should she be
Jealous? It seemed to me unreason-
able that she was, since I actually pre-
ferred her to all others in an enor-
mous competition. Women live shel-
tered lives: possibly there is reason
for jealousy among men, but if I were
a waman, I do not believe I would be
jealous of a reasonably well-behaved
husband. This may be unfairness:
I frequently find I am unfair after I
have striven to live as an honest man
in thought and action.”
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A strange woman lately wrote me a
strange letter. At the age of twenty-
four she held a position in which she
gave satisfaction, and in which there
was every prospect of promotion. In
defiance of advice from friends, and
of her own judgment, she married.
The husband was a palpable third
rater, and she divorced him,
Again she secured a good position;
again she married a man she might
have known was worthless. This time
her friends were disgusted, and she
has joined the unemployed.
One of the strangest things I have
encountered in life is the manner in
which many women rush into unsuit-
able marriages. Everyone understands
why men are so crazy about women,
but I have never been able to under-
stand why women are equally crazy
about men. It seems to me that were
I young, and a woman, I could consid-
er marriage with considerable pa-
tience, intelligence and caution.
The red lantern signal is usually
hung on unsuitable husbands and
wives, as it_is on dangerous bridges.
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An old German is reported as say-
ing: “When our sons mowed down
thousands of French, and ‘won the hat-
tle, we shouted and drank beer.
When the French killed our sons, they
cheered, and drank wine. When my
son marched away to fight, I stood
in the streets of this town and cheered.
A letter my son wrote just before he
was killed said he had lived in France
two years, and liked the French, and
they liked him.” In addition
to the unnecessary killing and hate,
the war impoverished the world.
Wouldn't you think anyone
could understand the moral of this in
considering the next war?
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What is the lesson of the moment,
the hour, the century, or of all time?
I believe it is the dangerous and grow-
ing power of politicians, the press
and radicals, all representing minori-
ties, and the cowardice of the major-
ity in refusing to enforce necessary
decency.
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The habit men have of being artifi-
cial, over-sentimental, is very old. As
far back as Roman times, Silerius was
weary of artificial things, and wrote
that they so bored him he dreaded to
go on the streets. In the Roman
Forum, when a young man used fine
eloquence to make false promises, Si-
lerius walked wearily away, and re
tired to his study. The last year of
his life he spent in writing his me-
moirs, and in the second volume
(page 182) I find this observation:
“Writing men have so tired the peo-
ple with unnatural things, I have con-
cluded I may better please by being
natural and simple in writing my rec-
ollections. I may thus at least put
down what one man actually thought
and experienced during a long life;
men have become so untruthful in
seeking truth that my method may,
indeed, prove to be something new,
and better recommend my work.”
This seems to have been a mistaken
opinion. Although Silerius wrote with
great simplicity and frankness, Marcus
Aurelius, a contemporary writing with
s0 much labor and obscurity that crit-
ics now say he is not understandable,
is more popular. The natural use of
writing would seem to be to truthfully
record credits and debits, in books of
history as well as in account books,
but somehow we have decided other-
wise.
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The people are great readers. Is
the general tendency of what we read
improving? . That it should be is very
important, Old fable writers related
improbable or amusing stories, and, at
the bottom of each one, something like
this was added:
“Moral: Better be safe than sorry.”
Or other maxims advising caution,
temperarce, industry, honesty, ete. In
everything written, between the lines-
or somewhere else, there should be re-
minders of the principles of old and
ppears to be no other way out.
demonstrated experience,
August 30th, 1934.
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Editor, Dallas Post,
Dallas, Penna.
Dear Sir:—
At our regular meeting held at Colo-
nial Tea Room tonight, the Secretary
was instructed to write you as follows:
“The Dallas Rotary Club wants to
80 on record as complimenting your
Paper, The Dallas Post, for the help
and space. given to help the cause of
g06d roads into Dallas and vicinity
with especial reference to your recent
issue on the Dallas-Tunkhannock
highway.”
Personally thanking I am
Yours truly,
Dallas Rotary Club,
J. F. Besecker,
Secretary.
Poets’ Cornet
“IF WISHES CAME TRUE”
How often have we wished each day
That - for us the sun would shine
alway?
See only things
bright .
How often have we wished we had,
Only the things that make us glad?
How
that were gay and
How often have we wished in vain?
That joy forever would remain,
F<
And yet if wishes did come true,
I wonder what we’d really do.
If the sun would always Shine,
For a time that would be fine
But then if we had never any rain,
We surely would again complain.
To only know things bright and gay,
Would become monotonous so they say
So let us be happy and not always
complain,
For sunshine always follows the rain,
—Mrs. John A. Girvan
To Conduct Church Class
Classes under the International
Leadership Training School will be
held at Shavertown M. E. Church on
Friday evenings from September 7 to
October 19, it has been announced by
Rev. F. F, Freeman, general chairman
Churches and Sunday school have been
invited to attend.
The courses and lectures: The New
Testament, Rev. Lynn H. Brown; Mes-
sage and Program of the Christian Re-
ligion, Rev. F. M. Sellers; The Teach-
ing Work of the Church, Helen Thomp-
son; Primary Materials and Methods,
ior Boys and Girls, Rev. F. F. Freeman,
Rev, Freeman will be assisted by the
following at the school. Miss Helen
Thompson, dean; Mrs. Ralph Frantz,
register;
Lynn H. Brown, publicity, Rev. F. M.
Sellers, finance.
Jotorlest
They're seeking a new speaker in
the House of Representatives.
That’s like looking for a needle in
a needle stack.
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Cities Leaving “Red”—Headline.
Now everything will be swell if the
Reds leave the cities.
* * *
An average of 38 per cent of all
Chicago husbands help their wives
with the dishes, says a news item.
The others were smart enough to
fumble one the first time up.
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In ocean depths, Dr. Beebe re-
ports having seen fish with *“head-
lights.” Fish or not, we’ll bet none
of them was traveling with one of
the headlights out.
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Statistics show that U. S. weather
forecasters are right at least 85 per
cent of the time. The other 15 per
cent is accounted for by days we
went on picnics.
Mrs. Margaret Patton; Teaching Jun- |
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often have some wished for!
health?
While others still they wished for
wealth, :
Charles Nuss, treasurer; Rev. |
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SUNLIGHT!
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Loading gasoline on sledges for a tractor trip at Little America
LITTLE AMERICA, ANTARCTI-
CA, Aug. 27 (via Mackay Ra-
dio): My, my, what a lot of news
this week! The blessed sun has re-
turned, Admiral Byrd is recovering
rapidly, ve had my first tractor
trip in the Antarctic gloom and
don’t like it, and 1 have developed
a new game—parachute skiing.
Some thrill, but only for those bent
on suicide! More about that next
time.
Right on schedule; the sun re-
turned to us on August 22 and we
had a grand celebration over it with
turkey and mince pie. Although the
temperature was 60 below zero, a
big group of us went out on skiis to
the top of a ridge on the Barrier,
a mile from here, t® give Old Sol
a welcome. Gradually, just before
noon, a pale grey light spread over
everything, changing to a pink and
yellow spot down by the horizon.
And then, sure enough, up came a
little corner of the sun itself—the
first time we had gazed upon it for
more than four months. Now, every
day, the sun will pay us a longer
and longer visit and finally remain
with us 24 hours a day. What a dif-
ference that is going to make in our
lives! Fifty-six men penned into a
few little huts surrounded by dark-
ness, snow and howling winds can
certainly get on each other’s nerves.
1 could write a book about that.
When Dr. Poulter and his tractor
party arrived at Admiral Byrd’s hut
last week one of their first mes-
sages to us said, “Please have trail
clearly marked in crevassed area
between Little America and Barrier
and through Pressure Ridge.” It
was in this area that the tractor
party became lost, narrowly escap-
ed falling into a crevasse and the
sledge with 1400 pounds of equip-
ment was swallowed up so that it
took the tractor crew five hours to
get it out. Immediately upon re-
ceipt of the message Harold 1. June,
of Darien, Conn., Bernard Skinner,
of Winthrop, Me., Kenneth Rawson,
of Chicago, and 1 were ordered to
get into trail clothes and take the
reserve tractor out there for the
purpose of .marking the trail
through this terrible area.
We left at 11:30 a. m,, foliowing
the faintly visible trail left by Dr.
Poulter and his crew. Rawson had
devised a new method of navigation
of a tractor and we were all anxious
to try out this idea because navigat-
ing from the driver's seat had prov-
ed too difficult and dangerous. If
this new method proves as success-
one 1 shall have an interesting story
to tell you and we shall have made
a new contribution to the explora-|
tion science. We were towing Raw-
son on a sledge. He communicated
with June in the driver's seat by,
means of two lights on the dash.|
Even for such a short trip we had to
carry complete trail equipment of,
food, fuel, stoves, cookers, radio
machines and so on because of the;
possibility of being caught in one,
of the blinding blizzards which de -|
cend without warning and make
travel impossible. After reaching
the Pressure Ridge we disregarded|
any possible trail and navigated by|
compass. We passed towering,
ridges of ice and detoured around
impossible hummocks. It was weird
and inspiring in the half light. The|
rough uneven surface looked
gloomy and forbidding. We could
glimpse the trail left by the other)
party, weaving in and out, retrac-
ing and sometimes even circling. It
was evident they had been in diffi-|
culties several times and had wan-
dered for miles trying to gt
through.
We kept a sharp lookout for ere
vasses and narrowly avoided sev-
eral. In the Pressure Ridge are;
areas of ice that have sunk to water|
level and other areas presenting
huge, grotesque formations 50 and
60 feet high. By navigation we made,
8 miles in one hour over the same,
tions that required 12 hours for]
the other tractor expedition. Our|
new method of navigating proved
highly successful and I'll tell you
all about it later. It was my first
experience on the Antarctic trail]
in the darkness and it is something]
1 shall remember all my life. Frank-
ly, 1 don’t like it. One has a con-
stant feeling of danger and, again,
it is not the soft, velvety darkness|
of more temperate climes but a
heavy flat thick blackness that]
seems to bear you down
sively.
Now that the sun is here I am
going to have wonderful things to,
tell the club members in these
weekly stories. You know, there
no charge for membership in
club. All you have to do to get a
membership card and a big free
20 x 27% inch working map of Ant,
arctica is to send me a clearly ady
dressed, stamped envelope at tng
American headquarters. Address Ar
thur Abele, Jr., President, Little
America Aviation and Exploration
Club, Hotel Lexington, 43th Street
ful in future trips a8 it did on this
and Lexington Avenue, New York,
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terrain and under the same condi
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