~~ Che Dallas Post
TABLISHED 1889 TELEPHONE DALLAS 300
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DOWARD RISLEY... ress ea ca ah ae tronoral Manager
OWITLL, RIES «oir oi rs b viens Sy vas sista via sare sie on WTR od Managing Editor
UMAN STEWART .....c...e0euiievunntnen.... Mechanical Superintendent
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great rural-suburban region of Luzerne County and in the attainment of the
highest ideals of journalism. THE POST is truly “more than a newspaper, it
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dit THE DALLAS POST PROGRAM 1
THE DALLAS POST will tend its support and offers the use of itu
‘eolumns to all projects which will help this community and the great rurai-
Subyrhan territory which it serves to attain the following major improve-
ments: 5 ‘ A
: 1. Construction of more sidewalks for the protection of pedestrians in
Kingston township and Dallas.
A free library located in the Dallas region.
3 Better and adequate street lighting in Trucksville. Shavertown,
Fernbrook and Dallas. |
» 4. Sanitary sewage disposal system for Dallas. _
~ 5. Closer co-operation between Dallas borough and surrounding townships.
. Consolidated high schools ‘and better co-operation betwen those that
ist.
7. Adequate waten supply for fire protection.
gh 8. The formatien of a Back Mountain Club made up of business men and
ome 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
ullivan Trail at Tunkhannock.
: 10. The elimination of petty poiitics from all School Boards in the region
sovered by THE DALLAS POST. ;
o It seems unlikely now that the Democratic party will be able to show suffi
; ent strength in Luzerne County this fall to push a slate of its own candidates
into local offices.
n Presidential elections the Democratic party seems to have surprising
CS IS strength here but it has not, in recent years anyway,
been very successful in loosening the strangle-hold
which the regula* Republican machine has on county
offices.
7 : ’ That is due mostly to the shrewdness of the politi-
cians which head the G. O. P. in the county. Regardless of how much you dis-
ke their tactics, and we are among those who do, you must pay a certain
amount. of tribute to their record for tenacity in holding power through land-
lides which would wipe out less seasoned politicians.
Last Fall, for example, they had a crushing blow when Pennsylvania, put
Governor Earle into the Governor’s chair and sent walrus-mustached Mr. Pin-
chot on his way. That would have crushed any machine less rugged than Penn-
sylvania’s Republican cohorts. When the smoke cleared away the G. O. P.
found it still had the Senate at Harrisburg and a thumb in the Democratic or-
© ganization here in Luzerne County.
ic Since then the followers of the Grand Old Party have been building slowly
toward the Fall county elections. One of their most brilliant pieces of strategy
has been to encourage any criticism of local Democratic leaders for “unfair dis-
tribution of patronage’ Generally the G. O. P. leaders invent and dictate the
criticism and see that it is spread through the ranks of the Democrats who are
waiting for jobs. Already it has ‘been ‘successful enough to cause hundreds of
Democrats to desert their party and turn back to the G. O. P.
£3 of course there is one important factor which the county machine cannot
afford to overlook and it is a factor of significant importance here in Dallas.
X Republicans who deserted the party last fall and who are returning now to its
folds are no more favorable to “bossism” than they were last November, The
swing against the county G. O. P. ring had started long before Democracy
beckoned. The Independent Republicans who oppose Judge Fine and his fol-
lowers have mever had quite such an opportunity as they have now. In the
shuffle which follows the New Deal the aggressive Independents may find them-
selves ‘holding the aces. In such cases the county G. O. P. ring which has had its
~ own way So long will be compelled to reorganize the new-found strength of the
endents and invite thier to a place in the councils of the leaders.
w* #* *
Poets who sing of Spring generally ignore the unsightly aspects which are
Spring is a swell season, what with lilting song, swaying blossoms, and new
‘ life, but it deserves a better break as far as last fall's
garbage is concerned,
UP IN So Dallas Borough’s brain-trust has conceived the
DALLAS worthy plan of calling upon all 200d men and women
ie ) to come to the aid of their town by clearing rubbish
from yards, sending junk to the dump, and, in general, making Dallas a more
attractive and healthier place to live.
. Clean Up Week should be more than a tag. It really has enough importance
to win the serious consideration of every person and the councilmen who have
started the plan to beautify Dallas deserve whole-hearted support and com-
~ mendation.
~The necessity of the removal of debris which has accumulated during the
Z winter is apparent from the health standpoint. Conditions that foster fly-
breeding are definitely menacing to the welfare of all citizens, and particularly
~ children. : .
: ~ Flies thrive in dirt. There is nothing they like better. They breed in yards,
on plots of ground, and on farms where decaying vegetable and animal matter
“and other fly-attracting substances have been permitted to pile up.
‘ Swat-the-fly campaigns have done more to educate the public on this insect
te hazard than has any other one activity. Both in killing flies that invade the
~~ home, ard in the (onstruction of harriers to stop them before they get there,
this definite aggression against the winged disease-spreader has been, and will
continue to be, of inestimable value. ¢
It is not only good housekeeping but the best kind of common sense health
protection to remove all waste material in or around the yards of homes. Both
ordinary sanitation and well-being demand that this be done.
Clean Up Week means more, however, than depriving millions of flies and
their sure millions of progeny existence.
Consider: the wooded tracts; for example. One of the greatest woods haz-
ards is the accumulation of rubbish, brush and dead leaves along fences, road-
~ sides and railroads. This debris should be gathered and burned before a lighted
cigarette or match of a careless traveller starts a destructive fire which may
send thousands of dollars worth of valuable timber up in smoke.
. Out-of-the-way storage rooms, cellars, attics, closets, all places where
materials not in daily use are kept are undoubtedly fire hazards, too, besides
dust catchers. This is a good time of the year to inspect them and clear away
«as much trash, oily rags, waste paper, or other inflamable materials as is
possible.
Suppose we make it a real Clean Up Week this year?
CLEANING
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The ends and extremities to which absurd propaganda is carried in this
country can find no more shining example than in the idea that a fine way to
prevent war is to have high school students and collegians walk out as a pro-
test against such conflict. If there be anybody so stupid
or inane as to believe that Mars will be greatly worried
when bombarded with tracts and leaflets instead of
firearms, why his place is in the leafy dell where he can
pluck violets to his heart's content. School children leaving the three R’s to
‘kick war in the slats is a gesture about as absurd as a little lamb gamboling
on the hillside trying to scare away a roaring lion. Everybody with an atom of
decency wants war outlawed and the earth rid forever of its ravages, but few
are so silly as to believe the right way to do is to have school children weaving.
garlands or singing in the rain. 3
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ABSURD
PROPAGANDA
Share croppers and tenant farmers in the South are in such poignant dis-
tress that the old traditions once existing between the negro and the poor white
are crumbling under the joint misfortunes of both. This is the information that
reaches the North from a traveler who has just returned after a tour of 3000
miles in the southland from Kentucky to Oklahoma. This tourist reveals one
of the anomalies of the situation is that while there has been an increase of
200,000 in the white share-croppers there has been a reduction of 2000 among
WASHINGTON |
SNAPSHOTS 4
A Column of Gossip
From the Nation’s Capital :
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1: WOULD BE ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE to exaggerate the high-tension and
undercurrent of hostility that exists today between th i i
e Legislative and execu-
tive departments of the government. Speaking more plainly. Congress and the
Administration—both Democratic—are in a fighting mood. The situation ha's
been brewing for months and the result is likely to be far-reaching.
* * *
At the end of four months, the present session of Congress, with its heavy
Democratic majority, had not sent to the White House a single piece of major
legislation. The relief bill, sought’ quickly by the White House and offering
pork” to Congress, could not even be put through without more than two
months of haggling. In this the whole subject of policy was involved. There
is a large and growing group in Congress opposed to the theory of lavish Gov-
ernmental expenditures-as a method of restoring prosperity. They believe they
have a growing support from the country. This group has the better of the
argument today, for the simple reason that while the ceaseless outpouring of
billions of dollars has gone on with new experiments coming month after month,
the number on relief has mounted steadily. In other words, attempts to “buy
off” the depression while counteracting the effects with unsound experiments
have failed. { y
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Indicative of the sentiment in Congress are statements by five Democratic
senators from along the Atlantic seaboard. While Republicans have been
quiescent, Senators Tydings of Maryland, Byrd and Glass of Virginia, Bailey of
North Carolina, and George of Georgia have lambasted various sections of the
New Deal. There are growing signs that the early summer will see President
Roosevelt throwing overboard a number of broposed social reforms, such as
unemployment insurance, and seeking to get Congress out of the city as was the
case last year.
* * *
Possibly nothing hag hit the New Deal so hard as its refusal to permit the
Supreme: Court to test the N. I. R. A. The Justice Department had selected a
case which it believed strong. Then when. the Supreme Court was ready to
hear arguments, the Government withdrew the appeal. Said C. L. Bardo, presi-
dent of the National Association of Manufacturers:
“Let the voice of the court be heard in the land and our people will obey.
If the Government believes it possesses the authority which is questioned, it
ought to seek vindication in the court or else it ought not merely to withdraw
Its appeal but abandon the attempt to obtain the enactment or execution of au-
thority which it hesitates to submit to the scrutiny of our highest tribunal.”
* * *
Settlement of difficulties which made a coal strike possible has brought
new hope of industrial peace during the Spring. This is one of the most
treacherous industries because so much of its business has gone to other forms
of fuel, and there is an oversupply of miners. A further difficulty is that there
has been no new usage found for coal.
Research expands other industries and takes up slack in unemployment,
just as steel, confronted with less heavy building, pushes the development of
low-cost steel residences. But no one has found the secret for coal as yet,
* * * ;
Newspaper publishers both large and small, speaking through the American
Newspaper Publishers Association and the National Editorial Association, bom-
barded the Wagner Labor Disputes Bill during the closing days of hearings
conducted by the Senate Committee on Education and Labor, charging that the
bill would render large papers powerless against union rackéteers, and turn
small papers throughout the country into closed shops.
Elisha Hason and Harvey J. Kelly, speaking for the A. N. P. A, told the
Committee the bill would seriously disturb the relations now existing between
publishers and their employes, and Edwin Funk, appearing for the 5,000 mem-
bers of the N. E, A., declared “ninety per cent of our shops are open shops, and
this bill would make no exception in the case of small publishers who today are
free from labor disturbances.”
The spokesman for the N. E. A., composed largely of publishers of weeklies
and small dailies, pointed out that the Association opposed the original Wagner
Labor Disputes bill last year, the bill that exempted from its provisions those
employing 10 persons or less, and that most emphatically these publishers op-
pose the present bill which males no such exemptions.
“There would be no limit to the annoyance and expense that would be
heaped upon small publishers by this bill,” said Mr. Funk. “We protest and
question the constitutionality of any law that attempts to say who an employer
shall hire.”
Spokesmen for scores of employer organizations, employe representation
units, and others who would be exposed to high-pressure tactics of union organ-
izers, expressed vigorous opposition to the bill. The long hearings ended with a
ringing repetition by James A. Emery, general Counsel ¢f the National Associa-
tion of Manufacturers, of Abraham Linecoln’s warning that:
“No man is good enough to govern another man without his consent.”
The Wagner bill would give to majority employe groups and labor dictators
absolute control of employment rules and policies.
A
WOMAN'S
WORLD
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HEN THE POST DIRECTED me to go to a distinguished New York
modiste to ask her to contribute a series of fashion suggestions designed
to help the women of the Back Mountain Section to select adequate
wardrobes within reasonable bounds of expenditure I was a little scared.
Miriam Anne Bouslogue has designed wardrobes for the best-dressed WO-
men of the world. I felt that she would have little time for my questions.
In her Salon, 9 East 57th Street, New York, I met Miriam Anne Bouslogue,
a woman as gracious and charming of manner as are the beautiful things she
creates, surrounded by decorations and furnishings that faithfully provide a
pleasing background against which are displayed the dresses and fabrics she
has designed and delights in showing.
Of colonial French parentage, Madam Bouslogue is a native of Indiana and
though educated in New England she is as familiar with the life and customs of
our inland cities as she is with those of Paris and London, where she spent
many years in the study of styles and materials, with a view to their practical
application to the needs of our American Women. Her keen interest in things
beautiful has carried her far beyond the serving of her own personal clientele
and in years she has devoted herself to the extended acceptance of American
designs and fabrics and is regularly a lecturer before the désigning classes of
the Pratt Institute, in New York.
Commendable also is Madam Bouslogue’s great interest in women capable
of using their hands intelligently, particularly those who of necessity must pro-
some little touch of decorative hand work. On the models illustrated, the Ele-
phant ornaments were made by inmates of a home for the crippled and the belt
and hood ornaments on the costume worn by Mrs. Sebastian, were made by a
woman, the sole support of a large family, who has built a very comfortable
business as a result of Madam Bouslogue’s guidance.
The Beach or Utility coat she showed me is of velvet processed by Madam
Bouslogue, not the high light effects, which not only add greatly to the charm
of the material but make it indeed a practical fabric. The lines of this coat are
very simple but architecturally correct and it may easily be made at home,
using any one of a variety of materials, chambra, large pattern brightly colored
gingham or ordinary rough toweling, would not only be smart in appearance but
useful as well,
An Arabian gown and cape we shall show, was designed by Madam Bouslogue
for Mrs. George Sebastian, because, although an American, Mrs. Sebastian
spends much of her time in Paris and has a winter home at Hammamet, Tuni-
sia, North Africa. To bring about the effect of rough Arabian linen, Madam
Bouslogue created a. crushed bagarra for this costume. The gown is oyster
white and the cape a strange shade of sand color that has in its tone faint sug-
gestion of pink, while the hood like scarf combines red, yellow and brown with
two shades of blue. The ornaments used on the belt and to fasten the cape are
adapted from the Arabian “Bark” used by the women of Arabia to hold the face
veil in place, and at the same time denotes certain caste.
The articles to follow this introduction, each week, will be prepared under
the supervision of Madam Bouslogue. They will discuss fabrics as well as line
and color and make available to you, at nominal cost, paper patterns of each
garments as it is illustrated and described.
The first article in connection with this series, will be presented in the next
issue of The Post.
the negroes.
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vide their own livelihood, hence many of the distinctive Bouslogue Models have.
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YOU CANT BE TOO
Spring is a good time to read Edward Seago’s new volume, “Sons of the
Sawdust”, because that book is filled with the spirit of wanderlust which des-
cends upon the race each year as the trees blossom. :
Edward Seago, you must know, is a famous young man for quite another
things besides writing books. His paintings of sporting ‘subjects have an in-
ternational reputation, despite his youth. That makes “Sons of the Sawdust”
doubly interesting, because Ted has illustrated it with pencil sketches which
effectively capture the spirit of the text. f
A few years ago, in his first book, Seago told of his attachment to a circus
as an adventure. Now he has joined Paddy O’Flynn’s modest little wagon com-
pany on a tour of Ireland and his story of the ups and downs which the brave
troupers encountered during their zig-zagging across the emerald isle is un-
usual reading.
Not the least of the benefits we derived from “Sons of the Sawdust” was the
discovery that “Sean”, which some one had told us should be pronounced
“Shawn”, is, in Ireland, pronounced “Sarn”.
\ * * *
Emilie Loring, whose stirring novel, “Hilltops Clear”, will appear serially in
The Post beginning next week, turned writer after she had raised a family,
Mrs. Loring is the daughter of George M. Baker, whose players are still
being acted all over the English-speaking world. Her grandfather, Albert Baker,
was one of the founders of the newspaper which is now the Boston Herald, She
is the wife of Victor J. Loring, a Boston lawyer, whos far-flung interests in
her outlook.
“When our sons fared forth to ‘prep’ school” she says “my husband vigor-
ously fanned a spark of literary ambition to which I confessed. For a year I
wrote a book-letter for a Boston paper. I tried an article and, lo, I hit the
bull’s eye. Encouraged, I essayed a short story. It was ‘accepted on its forty-
fifth trip. I believed in that story, and so, evidently did one other person in
this great U. S. A. There followed other stories and articles and then came my
first serial, ‘The Key To Many Doors.” ”
Since the appearance of her first serial, Mrs. Loring has written a number.
of other stories that have won her an established place amogn present-day
authors. “Hilltop sClear” is in her best vein and presents a delightful com-
bination of romance and adventure. Do not miss the opening chapters.
We're always fearful about giving away the plot of a book because some-
times that spoils the enjoyment. We might, however, give you just a little hint
| of what “Hilltops Clear” is about,
Prudence Schuyler came to Prosperity Farm to make a new life for herself
and her brother, whose health had been broken by tragedy. The world from
which she was running away had taught her to distrust wealthy and present-
able young idlers and when Rodney Gerard, their nearest neighbor, proved to
be one of the despised clan, she closed her heart against him. But for Rodney
she was the only woman in the world, so he set himself to prove to her that
even for rich young men marriage can be “forever and forever”. How well he
succeeded is told in the closing chapters of Mrs. Loring’s delightful tale.
It is a romance as refreshing as the Maine Pines which play their own im-
portant part in the story.
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Some of England's excitement over King George's Silver Jubliee is spread-
ing to this country and resulting in a flock of volumes recounting Britain's
historical pageant during the last quarter of a century.
One of the most outstanding yet is D. C. Somervell’s 533-page volume, ‘The
Reign Of King George, The Fifth; An English Chronicle” (New York: Harcourt,
Brace, and Company, $3).
George V, the present ruler, succeeded Edward VII at the latter's death on
May 6, 1910, and was threatened at the outset of his reign ‘with something
which, according to English tradition should never happen to the Crown. He
was, immediately, embroiled in factional politics. That launched a reign which
was crowded with drama—with wars, booms, and depressions.
Most of the British books on the Silver Jubilee have a respectful attitude
toward their King. They are more humble before their rulers than we are here
in America. Mr. Somervell concludes with the hope that King George may con-
tinue for many years to lead the nation on the long road to be travelled before
the twentieth century achieves a prosperity and a security in any way worthy
of its resources.
Those’ who were thrilled by “Cavalcade” will find great interest in “The
Reign Of King George”.
* * *
Emil Ludwig, who has the knack of making biographies best-sellers, now has
painted a graphic pen-picture of that fiery old bluffer, Paul Von Hindenburg,
who, according to Ludwig, passed responsibility to others, then blamed them
when failure resulted.
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If you're interested in knowing how an African prince comes of age, read
“The Story Of An African Chief” by Akiki K. Nyanbongo . .. The women will
like it because Nyanbongo believes that “Men will always be what the women
make them” ... Hugh Rutledge, who led the fourth expedition which failed to
climb Mt. Everest, has written a stirring account of his adventure in “Attack
On Everest’. Ten years ago Sir Francis Younghusband predicted that Everest
would be conquered by climbing man eventually, The stature of a mountain is.
fixed, but man grows. It is interesting to read this account of an expedition’
which, although it failed, was able to give up with the sentiment “Success may
not come at the next attempt or till after many more attempts, but the end is
certain.
The Lives Of
THE GREAT MOTHERS
Of The World
Beginning next week The Post will publish a
series of twelve biographical sketches of the
world’s most famous mothers, including George
Washington’s mother, Abraham Lincoln’s mother,
Florence Nightingale’s mother, etc. They have been
prepared for The Post by the Golden Rule Mothers’
Day Committee, of which Mrs. James Roosevelt,
Sr., is honorary chairman.
FANNY FERN
BOOKS
civie, church, and legal affairs she credits with havin® done much to broaden’ ”
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