erry Christmas TTS Ty TST Si Dallas Host. _More Than A Newspaper, A Community Institution TEC RTOTT erry Christmas VOL. 44 DALLAS, PA., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1934. No. 51 : POST SCRIPT “JOHN SMITH CHRISTMAS 1928 CHRISTMAS 1930 CHRISTMAS 1933 CHRISTMAS 1934 CHRISTMAS, 1928: John: Smith, president of Allied Tycoons, ‘Inc. rose from “behind his mahogany desk and cave final instructions to his blonde sécretary. /Call up Jake and have him make that ten cases instead of seven. Mail him ‘a .check. Have. . the. Christmas bonuses been distributed yet?” “Yes, Mr. Smith, and the men told me they’d like to have have a drink with them on your way out. And thank you for my bonus. It was a great deal more than pected.” “O. K. Forget it. Get. my wife on the ‘phone, will you?” Mr. Smith pulled on his rich, fur- lined overcoat, set his derby at a jaun- ty angle, and then took the telephone from the blonde secretary. “Hello, Marge. Did you get the coat. Fine. Glad you liked it. Yes, genuine. Twenty-seven hundred. Sure, Christmas only comes once a.year. The kids won't be home, huh? Well, maybe it's better. I've ordered three more cases. I'll be a little late. I-uh-have i ia call to make. Alright. So long.” * bonuses this year. coat and went out a side door. cold. On the way out Mr. from the cashier, stuffed it in his poc- ket, and stopped in the sales manager’s office for a quick one. Everyone was happy in there. In front of his’ purring town car a beggar sidled up to him! Mr. Smith ripped a bill from the roll without looking at it and gave it to the man. “Miss Du Lane's” he told his chauf- foim“and | heredss- something. for the wife and family.” ——— ‘CHRISTMAS; 1930: tirned around’ gruffly as his blonde secretary came into the office. She'd probably heard him ordering: a gallon "of alcohol and “a, bottle of gin flavor- John: Smith "ing. “I thought you'd gone” he said. “] wanted to finish these letters”. “I’m glad you came back. send slips to Mr. Grover seorge and John telling them we'll have to'let them go after the first of the year. I'm sorry—but we'll have to | do it’? : The secretary made a few notes and | turned to go. Mr. Smith called her. badly that we’ can’t give How do the boys “I+ feel ‘feel about it”. “They appreciate your position, Mr. " Smith, I'm sure.” “We'll be on our feet by mext Christ- mas and we’ll try to make it up. This has been a bad year for all of us.’ Mr. Smith put on his fur-lined over- It was He pulled the collar high about his neck and walked toward the sub- way entrance. gr CHRISTMAS, 1933: John Smith lift- ed himself wearily out of his chair. “You'd better go, now” he told his sec- retary “it’s quite late.” He called a telephone number. “Hello Marge. I'l. be home soon. No. I'm not | very hungry. No. I couldn't get much. A little over $10. I know, but it’s hard. You can’t realize it. Yes, I know. Yes, I know that, too. I'm sorry. Well, he'll | have to work. Alright, if that’s the way | 18 youn feel!” He banged the receiver bitterly. John Smith put his arm gingerly into the sleeve of his fuv-lined coat. You had to do it just right to miss the torn place in the lining, He knocked a dent out of his derby and walked out, shoul. jers hunched against the biting cold. 1 ’anhandlers accosted him but he walk- d on and on, eyes staring ahead. —ra CHRISTMAS, 1934: John Smith fin- shed his talk to the new men. “And ow if yvowll help yourself to a hand- 11. of these cigars we'll call it a day 1d get home to our families”. The men filed out and the blonde | cretary began to gather her papers. “ “How’s your mother, today” Mr. Snaith asked. “She’s not very well, I'm afraid” Mr. Smith reached into his pocket. s “Here's five dollars. It’s not very much. | (tet her a present or use it for the doctor bill.” The secretary hesitated. sure that I should take it, Mr. Ate you sure you can afford it?” ‘Let me worry about that. You'd joeter skip on home. I'm going to leave ealy. Merry Christmas!” "he telephone rang. Mr. Smith an- sweed it. “Yes, Marge. That's fine. IT wiat just ready to leave. The kids are hp. That's great. Yes, I'll wait here avon. Alright, Marge. It’s snowing side. Tt looks like a real Christmas.” fr. Smith got his new topcoat and da by his window as he put it on. ewhere chimes ‘were playing. ight was casting purple shadows the snow on the roof tops below (Continued on Page 4.) “I'm: not Smith. you stop and we ex- | but | Smith got $300 | the Lord shone round about them; a 1s Christ the Lord. host praising God, and saying. men.” heaven, the shepherds said one to hath made known unto us.” babe lying in a manger. Toby’s Creek In’ | Artist Spends . Along Banks Of : Stream Will you | and Mr. | Humble Toby’s Creek, long-time |bane of Back Mountain existence, {found its way into a distinguished art |exhibit this week. With the same. skill with which he captured. the lush picturesqueness of his | Normandy and the rugged beauty of | |the Pacific Coast, Aston Knight, noted American painter of landscapes, has depicted with oils and brush the transi- tion of Toby's Creek during the last [200 years. | The paintings are among those being | exhibited at Wyoming Valley Woman's | Club this week. First, Mr. Knight set up his easel at Huntsville and spent Monday repro- |ducing the beauty of the creek as it [must have been in early winter before {man built along its banks, | Then, on Tuesday, he moved down- |stream to picture the creek where the |drab blackness of East Boston Colliery | [looms in the background. He portray- | ed in fine detail the debris jutting out | of the water and the breaker towering | labove, and relieved the unsightliness | |with touches of warmth where the | sun's rays fell. ‘While he was painting on Tuesday a (Continued on Ftge 2.) | | And the angel said unto them, * good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. Knight's Exhibit Two pos) First 1935. Panel group of youngsters watched him ecriti- | FREER SSR SRS SR SRR EE ND THERE WERE in He same country shepherds abiding i in the field, keeping watch over their flocks Ys night. And, lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory: of and they were sore afraid. ‘Fear not, for behold, I bring you “For unto you is born this day in the city of David, a Saviour: which “And this shall be a sign unto you; Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger.” And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the Heavenly “Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward And it came to pass, as the angels were gone away from them into another, “Let us now go even unto Bethlehem, and see this thing which is come to pass, which the Lord And they came with haste, and found Mary, and Joseph, and the And when they had seen it, they made known abroad the saying which was told them concerning this child.” —St. Luke, Chapter 2:8—17. 9] Local Men On For Term Starting January 14 | | -Among the jurors who have been | [called to serve during the three weeks | | of the first 1935 term of C | Court at Wilkes-Barre are a ROmber of men from this section, Nearly. 250 names were selected. Among them are the following local | men: Week of January 14. | Dallas—Robert J. Allen, foreman. | Lehman Township—E. P. Parrish, farmer. Week of January 21. Kingston Township — Sherman T. Frantz, grocer; Rev. 8S. R. Nichols, minister; Guy E. Woolbert, contractor. Dallas Township Olin Kunkle, | farmer. Dallas Borough—George CC. Nobel, hardware; Charles F. Terry, laborer, Week of January 28. Kingston Township — Kenneth J. Woolbert, clerk. Young People To Sing | On Christmas Eve a group of young | people from the Epworth League of | 9.15. The Junior Choir of his “church | will sing | Trucksville M. BE. Church carols throughout the community. After the singing the group will go to the home of Miss June Palmer. OMS ~ Urility s Report Stresses Need For Higher Pay Improvement C Costs PICK-UP. TEAM . > DEFEATS HIGH SCHOOL, 6 to 0 .. Dallas Borough High School's football team was defeated, 6 to 0, by a team made up of former school stars and other local ath- letes last: Monday afternoon. The game was a benefit promot- ed by friends of Clarence LaBarr., Bob Hislop made the winning touchdown for the town’s team. The school team threatened to score repeatedly, once driving to within two yards of the goal. “Digest” Points To Sprague’s Record Seminary President Wins Senger! In National »” Magazine . L. 1. Sprague, president of Wyo- ning Seminary and who will observe his ninetieth birthday on Sunday, has been the subject of a number of arti- cles in magazines and newspapers re- cently. The most recent tribute to the vener- able educator appeared in The Liter- List Of Jurors Called | ary Digest last week in a department |called; “They Stand Out From The | SESRARSR RSLS ARAN SS Lr Sistah “Dr. vi 1. Sprague, president of eB Seminary at Kingston, Penn- | sylvania, | secondary country in years of service, He has (taught continuously for seventy-three |vears and is completing his fifty-sec- lond year as Wyoming's president and | his sixty-eighth year as a member of lits faculty. | celebrate his minetieth birthday on | December 23: devotes at least four hours a day. to office.duties and attends all ‘'eampus activities.” Dr. Sprague, was the subject of a long article in The Philadelphia Rec- [ord a week or sO ago. | Car Leaves Road, Runs A coupe owned and operated by John Sisko, 38, Lake Township, left the thighway around Harvey's Lake on Tuesday and ran into the lake. The car stopped in shallow water and Sis- ko was not injured. The accident was the most serious of ‘a number which | result of the sleet which covered high- | ways. Shavertown Pastor Rev. Fred M. Sellers, pastor of Sha- vertown M. E. Church, will broadcast a message from Station WBAX at | Wilkes-Barre on Sunday night at] will sing on the same program, which is one of a series being sponsored by the Methodist Episcopal churches of | this section. THIRTY-SEVEN-YEAR OLD EDITORIAL TO LITTLE | | | Only infrequently does [newspaper writing outlive Iprint on which it is printed. Occasionally, however, there appears | the news- in some newspaper’ somewhere, an |article which becomes a part of a na- | |tion’s literature and is remembered [long after the writer has died. A bit of writing like that is the edi- torial Frank P. Church wrote for the |New York Sun on September 21, 1897. |So great an impression did that edi- | |torial make thirty-seven years ago that | requests are received almost annually |by newspapers to reprint the editorial. It is in response to such requests made to The Post for the famous edi- torial that it is reproduced here: “We take pleasure in answering at once and thus prominently the com- Imunication below, expressing at the same time our great gratification that its faithful author i§ numbered among the friends of The Sun: “Dear Editor: I am eight years old. Some of my little friends say there is no Santa Claus. Papa says ‘If you see it in the Sun it's so.” Please tell me the truth. Is there a Santa Claus? Virgin- ia O'Hanlon’ “virginia, your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the skepticism of a skeptical age. They do not believe except they see. ® a piece of VIRGINIA O'HANLON OUTLIVES MAN WHO WROTE IT [think that nothing can be which is not comprehensible by their little minds. |All minds, Virginia, whether they be |men’s or children’s are little. In this {great universe of ours man is a mere insect, an ant, in his intellect, as com- pared with the boundless world about | him, as measured by the intelligence and knowledge. “Yes, Virginia, there is Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy. |Alas- How dreary would be the world if there were no Santa Claus! It would ibe as dreary as if there were no Vir- ginias. There would be no child-like faith then, no poetry, no romance to make tolerable this existence. ‘We should have no enjoyment, except in the sense and sight. The eternal light | which childhood fills the world would be extinguished. “Not believe in Santa Claus! You might as well not believe in fairies! You might get your papa to hire men to watch in all the chimneys on Christ- mas Eve to catch Santa Claus, even if they did not see Santa Claus coming down what would that prove? a Santa | but | “sign that there is no Santa Claus. The [most real things in the world are those |that neither children nor men can see. Did you ever see fairies dancing on the | lawn? Of course not, but : that’s no | proof that they are not there. No one | | can conceive or imagine all the won- | ders there are unseen and uneeable in the world. “You tear apart the baby’s rattle and see what makes the noise inside, but there is a veil covering the unseen world which not the strongest man, nor even the united strength of all the strongest men that ever lived, could tear apart. “Only faith, fancy, poetry, love, ro- | mance can push aside that curtain and | view and picture the super beauty and glory beyond. It is all real. Ah, Vir- ginia, in all this world there is nothing else real and abiding. Yes, Santa Claus lives, and he lives forever. A nay, ten times from now, he will glad the hearts of childhood.” * % * There is an interesting sequel to the Sun’s editorial. Virginia O'Hanlon grew up, as little girls do, and today she is teaching in the slums of New They Nobody sees Santa Claus but that is no | York City. ates ’ VIGOROUS OBJECTION FR ‘Lengthy Report To Be Presented Td Com. Analyses Weaknesses Of on January 4 Distribution: System And Recommends Plan To End Shortage of Water In Local Homes STATE ENGINEERS TO MAKE OWN REPORT The necessity for an increase in local water rates if the problem of ine is helieved. to be ‘the. oldest | school administrator in the | Doctor Sprague; who will | adequate water distribution facilities here is to be solved is stressed in the re- port which the Dallas Water Co. will make to the Public Service Commission at its hearing on Friday, January 4. The measures which the compan ing operated carefully and with a min would be the only method of covering t report. the local water rates were evident yest “It is my opinion that the Taxpayer attempt to increase the water rates” on In its report, the water company paragraph: community (316.00 is the minimum flat taining supply.” Indications that there will be a vig “Present rates at Dallas are high, as compared to the y believes. necessary for permanent improvement would cost-$7;100 the report says, and, since the property is be« imum of expense, the raising of rates he cost. The addition of an annual amount of $4 to the flat rate is suggested in the orous objection tc any attempt to raise erday when The Post informed officials of the Taxpayers’ Association of the company’s recommendation. s’ Association will fi e official said. admits to high rates here ‘now in this ght strenuously any average built up rate) the direct result of the scattered residential area, with wide variation in served elevation, and difficulty of ob~ Christmas To Be Marked By « Many Programs, | | Churches Announce Schedule! Of Services For Holiday MUSIC FEATURED Christianity’s most holy day—Christ- | : Carol Into Harvey’s Lake occured : throughout this section as a |pjght. To Broadcast Sermon |ember 24,-at 7. | bers: |Dnaiel Wandel, Warren Thomas, Mary | Bennallack, thousand years from now, Virginia, | Shields, Jane Thomas, Donald Starr, ten thousand years | Clifford Shields, Beverly Thomas, Mar- continue to make |j mas—will ‘be observed throughout this | section from Sunday to Tuesday at im- | pressive church ceremonies and special {| programs. singing, Christmas sermons, ' Sunday school entertainments——all the | traditional : features: of the celebration [will be blended into this region’s ob- |servance of the holiday. St. Therese’s The regular schedule of masses will [be in effect at St. Therese’s R. C. | Church at Shavertown on Sunday, the services being held at 8:30 and 10:30. |The Christmas observance will begin |with the midnight mass on Monday On Tuesday, Christmas Day, | there will be masses at 8:30 and 10:30. The church is being decorated with | Christmas greens as it the annual cus- tom and presents an impressive and beautiful appearance. Free Methodist | The observance of Christmas at the | Free Methodist “Church of Dallas will |begin with the Sunday School enter- tainment to be held on Saturday night lat 7: 30, the pastor, Mrs. Gertrude R. Roth, has announced. On Sunday the services will follow this schedule: Sunday school, 2 p. m.; |preaching, 3; Young People’s Meeting, |7, and preaching service, 7:30. This (will be the regular schedule for Sun- day in the future. Alderson M. E. The Christmas program of the Alder- son M. E. Church will be given on | Monday evening at 7:30. |are preparing | pictures. Meeker M. E. The cantata, The Infant King, dir- fected by Rev. George Sweet, will be presented at the Meeker Church on | Sunday evening, December 23. Glen View P. M. The Glen View P. M. Church will give a cantata on Monday night, Dec- The cast has as mem- Virginia Starr, Ann Dietrich, Melvin Compton, Dolores Osborne, Harold Christian, Jane Case, Dorothy | Harmond, Nevin Pealer, Edgar Belles, Minnie Crispell, Phillip Evans, Marjor- ie Thomas, Irene Pealer, Ruth Evans, Arthur Belles, Mrs. Ralph Fitzgerald, Ernest Casterline, Peggy Pealer, Jean Dietrich, and Benjamin Munchler, The smaller children who will give recitations: King Cragle, Virginia Shields, Joy ILamoreaux, Margaret ion Upton, Dickie Pealer. Trucksville M. E. The Christmas spirit will be inter- preted in music at Christmas services of the Trucksville M. E. Church, of The children | a pageant of Christmas Five Steps The new rate schedule is one of five |steps proposed by. Robert .Hall Craig, | general manager, in a réport which (covers thirteen pages. 4 The other proposals |ried out immediately are: (a) Install a six-inch main on Mon- roe Street. | (b) Meter comniercial and industrial (eustomers, (c) Connect golf club spring line. (d) Conduct fixture leakage ‘survey as recommended by. Pitometor Survey. Mr. Craig also suggests that shortly {after the end of the 1935 calendar year [the company install a reservoir close {to the distribution sy stem with one |day’ Ss storage and install a six-inch line teading from the reservoir to the dis= tribution system. For the future, the company suggests cleaning or enlarging the transmission mwins as necessity demands and in= | stalling’ “additional gate .valves and | pressure reducing valves, if possible. Goal Of Service j In endeavoring to follow out the in« {structions of ‘Attorney Herman J. Gold« | berg, Public Service’ Commissioner, to | give adequate relief locally, the comw« pany described the degree of service which should be rendered as follows: “The goal of service at which the company will aim is a reasonably con- stant service, with- but few interrup= tions due to uncontrolled causes, and with a volume of water available to all | customers for normal needs, delivered at pressures: which will reach all pors tions of all buildings in the areas served.” It is stressed in the report that the supply of water is adequate and that |the demand is such that friction losses occur in the transmission and distris bution mains of such intensity as to cause excessive loads on pumps, Or cause a reduction of pressure at the distribution system high points. | ‘Such being the case, one or more of the following three remedies could be provided: . 1. Increase delivery head by increas« ing pumping pressures. 2. Base the flow in transmission and distribution line by enlarging the mains, paralleling the mains or clean« ing existing mains. 3. Decrease the demand by metering, and reduce wasteage and leakagge The element of wasteage or leakage is apparent in the figures which indi- cate that in certain parts of the bor= ough thé per capita consumption is ex« traordinarily high. Cost To Company. In estimating the cost of the im- provements suggested the company lists first the metering of commercial and industrial units at a cost of $500 and the installation of the Monroe Avenue main at a cost of $1,500. These improvements to service could be ac- complished with the present supply facilities. As a solution to the shortage in Shrine View and Dallas Township the company suggests connecting the aban- doned Golf Club Spring Line with a four-inch Sylvius main. This would cost about $200. Then, the company suggests, a steel storage tank that could be erected at a cost of $4,000 and a six-inch main leading to the tank that could be in- stalled for $900. Company's Finances The company has already submitted to be care which Rev. Roland Crompton is pastor. | At the service to be held on Sunday | (Continued on Page 2.) as evidence a statement showing an operating loss for the twelve-month (Continued on Page 2.)
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