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Few financial commentators have so
striking a record of accurate predic-
tions as Roger Babson—one of that
handful of seers who forecast the col-
lapse of 1929.
Page 5 about ‘the coming prosperity”.
Read what he says on
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DALLAS, PA., FI _FRIDAY, JUNE 14, 1935.
Ge
al __ No. 5
VOL. 45
POST
SCRIPTS
GOOD MORNING
RULES
TESTIMONIAL
VACATION
ADVENTURE >
It is almost ten years since George
Gwilliam had the idea for his Good
Morning Club.
George felt that + what this world
needed was more people with a smile
and a cheery greeting. It bothered
him to See people walking around with
eyes downcast and lips bent in a
frown. He knew what a tonic and a
balm a friendly smile can be and the
more he thought about it the more
he was convinced that some of those
perennial grouches would smile if
someone reminded them.
First he began to practice his own
philosophy earnestly and when he dis-
covered how cheerily people responded
he decided to spread the idea. That
was the beginning of the Good Morn-
ing Club.
There were only twenty-five cards
sent out the first time, They were
marked in red “Dues Paid. Forever”
and Mr. Gwilliam, in the letter he sent
them, explained that he didn’t want
any contributions. He had started the
thing, he said, and as long as he was
able he would finance it.
The story of how the idea spread is
an old one. From those original twen-
ty-five the thing spread. Soon people
began writing in for cards. Today
Mr, Gwilliam estimates there are 2,500
members of the Good Morning Club
in Luzerne County.
He 'is the president and the trea-|/
surer, too, because he pays for the
printing of the cards and the postage
to send them out and writes person-
ally the letters that accompany them.
There's one thing unique about the
Good Morning Club. It.isn’t made up
of actors and radio stars and high-hat |
celebrities. Practically all the mem-
bers are ordinary plain folk from the
smaller towns around Wilkes-Barre.
There probably are several hundred
right in the vicinity of Dallas.
Many of the members never have
met Mr. Gwilliam. Quite frequently
some man introduces himself to Mr.
Gwilliam and turns out to be an old
and loyal member of the club. Once
or twice the little card has been a big
help to some member who was in dis-
tress or needed a friend. Those stories
just come back to Mr. Gwilliam
through mutual friends. They have
nothing to do with any activities of
the club because there are none. There
are no dues, mo meetings, no emblem.’
no secret gris.
The only thing you have to do to
be a member is to pledge yourself to
the four rules Mr. Gwilliam has print-
ed on the back of every card. Here
they are:
1. To say “Good Morning” to every
one from the ash man to the President
of your bank,
2. To start and finish each day with
the “Good Morning” spirit.
3. To say it with a smile.
4. To keep on saying it 365 days in
each year.
Next year, unless the club keeps on
growing and gets too big to handle,
Mr, Gwilliam may require that each
member do one good turn for someone
every day.
As we said, the club never has had
a meeting, But several weeks ago
some of the members got together and
decided that they'd like to show their
appreciation to Me william. There
was enthusiastic hd spontaneous
response to the Ades. All over the
county, people began falling in with
the plan. A committee was organized
and some one got the list of members
from Mr, Gwilliam. The result is that
Mr. Gwilliam has been commanded to
appear at Hotel Mallow- Sterling next
Tuesday night to be guest of honor at
the first meeting of the Good Morn-
ing Club.
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It is the inalienable right of every
American citizen to have a vacation.
You might not find it in the Con-
stitution, It may not be in the Bill of
Rights. But it is a part of American
Tradition that ‘we, the people of the
United States, have taken unto our-
selves the right to pull down the
shades, lock the doors, leave a note
for the milkman, and take our way
blithely each summer to the highways
and byways in search of rest and re-
creation.
There was a time when the idea of
taking a week or two off, just for fun,
would have evoked mervous head-
waggings and tongue- -chuckings from
the scandalized neighbors. The auto-
mobile has changed all that.
When engineers hitched the prin-
ciples of internal combustion to the
human urge to see new things they
revolutionized the recreation habits. of
these United States.
For the automobile made it possible
for thousands of us to get relaxation,
inspiration, education, and a change of
scene without taking any new mort-
gage to pay the expenses.
A vacation trip today costs so little
that it usually builds more than its
money's worth of new energy.
That is particularly true for motor-
ists who live in the fortunate section
which surrounds Dallas, for here va-
cation spots abound, from the time the
first Spring flower burgeons until the
last crimson leaf drops in the Fall.
This section is rich in places to go.
Geographically speaking, there are
week-end tours practically at your
back yard. Make a dot with a pencil
anywhere on the may of the Northern
Tier counties and, unless seasoned
travellers are wrong, you'll hit a spot
LOCAL ROADS
INCLUDED IN
F. W. R. LIST]
Honteville “nd Laks Pro-
jects To Be Discussed
Today With Others
MILLION RELIEF
Two local projects will be dis-
cussed among others at a meeting in
Wilkes-Barre today to consider the
expenditure in Luzerne County of
nearly $1,000,000 of the Federal four
billion” dollar work relief fund.
One of the projects to be suggested
by Wyoming Valley Motor Club will
be the relocation of Route 115, from
the intersection of Route 92 at Hunts-
ville to Pike’s Creek
The second project to be suggested
for this section will be the elimination
of dangerous curves at Harvey's Lake
on Route 415.
Eleven other suggestions will
made for use of the $945,480 which
Warren S, Van Dyke, secretary of
highways, has apportioned for grade
crossing elimination and highway im-
provement in Luzerne County.
The county received the third larg-
est share of the - $20,000,000 which
Pennsylvania received from the Fed-
eral government.
Projects that will use ninety .per
cent labor from relief rolls will be
favored.
The program will be discussed at a
luncheon conference of national, State,
county, municipal, business, civic and
motor club leaders at noon today
(Friday) in Hotel Mallow-Sterling.
Wyoming Valley Motor Club has
prepared the list of more than a doz-
en long-desired projects for discus.
sion,
The appropriation announced this
week is not the fund upon which the
paving of Route 92, between Dallas
and Tunkhannock, depends, Norman
Johnstone, secretary of the motor
club, explained this week.
Preparatory to starting the pave-
ment of the Wyoming County end of
that highway, State highway employes
are constructing a concrete bridge
across Bowman's Creek, below Evans
Falls and down stream from the spot
where the present bridge crosses the
creek.
Youngsters Ready
For Fun At Noxen
Ww a Open Fifteenth Year Of
Children’s Home Camp
Monday
Fifty-eight youngsters from the
Children’s Home in Wilkes-Barre are
eagerly awaiting the bus which will
transport them next Monday to their
annual camp at Noxen and a summer
of healthful exercise and recreation
The children will stay there until
next September, under the supervi-
sion of a group of leaders headed by
Miss Agatha M. Hill, who has been
superintendent of the home for the
past seven years.
The camp was made possible fifteen
vears ago when Arthur I, Stull of
Noxen and Wilkes-Barre donated land
to the association to be used by the
children as a summer encampment.
With funds of the institution a large
building was erected containing dor-
mitories and a dining room and other
quarters were built,
The plot of land is between Noxen
and Stull, about one and one-half
miles from Noxen along Bowman's
Creek. There will be twenty-four
boys and thirty-eight girls, including
several less than five years of age, in
camp this year
be |
Miss Helen Himmler, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Wesley Himmler
of Dallas, and who was voted the
title of “Miss Wyoming Seminary”
during the commencement pro-
gram at the Kingston preparatory
school.
‘Dallas Girl Is
“Miss Seminary”
Miss Helen Himmler Voted
“Most Beautiful” Girl
CAt Prep School
i Ann Himmler, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Wesley Himmler of
Dallas has been chosen “Miss Wyo-
ming Seminary.” She was selected as
the most beautiful girl attending Wyo-
ming Seminary and has been very
popular throughout her school life at
Wyoming Seminary. Miss Himmler
was a member of the Adelphian Socie-
ty, Girls’ Glee Club and Dramatic
Club, she took a very active part in
the affairs of all these societies,
At the Seminary Senior Dance, held
at Irem Temple Country Club on
Tuesday night Miss Himmler was in-
troduced as Miss Wyoming ‘Seminary
and sang “When I Grow Too Old To
Dream” upon request. She was ac-
gomipanied by Dan Gregory's orches-
ra,
Miss Himmler was graduated from
Wyoming Seminary. Tuesday morning.
‘Township Defezred
By Valley Loaders
Make Game Fight, But Fail
In Desparate Try For
Championship
Dallas Township High School base-
ball team, which led the Back Moun-
tain Scholastic League, lost its chance
for the Luzerne County ‘high school
championship on Tuesday afternoon,
when it was defeated by Swoyerville,
9 to 18.
Tom Bebey, stellar pitcher tor: the
Swoyerville team, struck out 14 Pallas
Township players and almost had a
no-hit, no-run game. It was late in
the final inning, with two men out,
when Stackmal, Dallas shortstop,
singled. Girton, who followed, flied
out and ended the game. Only one
man besides Stackmal got to first base
and in that case he took the base on
balls,
Swoyerville will meet Larksville this
afternoon for the final game in a
series of scholastic contests to decide
which local high school team shall be
the guests of the Wilkes-Barre Rec-
ord on a bus trip to New York City
next Tuesday.
~ “MISS WYOMIN G”
fmittees which will have
a
NEXT MEET NG
Will Discuss Ci Civic Program
_ At First: ‘Supper-
- Meeting
MEMBERS CALLED
Committees appointed by Dallas
Business Men's Association last month
to investigate several important com-
munity problems will report at the-
first supper-meeting of the associa-
{tion on Friday night, June 21.
The name of the speaker and the
place of meeting will be announced
next week.
Among the questions to be discussed
are the status of plans for improve-
ment of the highway through Luzerne
and the progress being made to im-
prove the distribution of water in the
borough and township. Committees
were appointed to investigate these
matters, }
There are also several other com-
interesting
reports to be made.
~ Peter D. Clark, president, has urged
that all members attend the supper-
meeting and has issued a cordial in-
vitation to local business and profes-
sional men who are not members to
attend the next meeting of the Asso-
ciation,
Tunkhannock Gets
Farm Loan Office
Now Location Convenient
For Farmers From
This Area
The Production Credit Association,
which serves farmers of this section,
will be moved from Scranton and es-
tablish new offices, under the name of
the Wyoming Production Credit Asso-
ciation, in Tunkhannock on July 1.
The change will effect a convenience
for local farmers. Negotiations have
been completed for the rental of the
Oliver property from the Oliver Es-
tate.
The association is one of eleven
charted under the Farm Credit Act of
1933 to provide short-time loans for
farmers.
Sweet Valley Man
Called B. Death
Funeral services for T. J. Rummage
78, who died on Tuesday night at 6
at his home in Sweet Valley, will be
held this afternoon at 2 at the home.
Rev. F. S. Ritter of the Christian
Church and Rev. T. J. Waterstripe will
officiate. Interment will be in the
Bloomingdale Cemetery
Mr. Rummage is survived by his
wife and two sons, Stanley of Ramsay,
Mich., and Dr. L. C. Rummage of
Nanticoke,
He was born in Hanover but was
taken to Sweet Valley when he was
four years old. He was engaged in
farming and lumbering until he retired
nineteen years ago. He was a mem-
ber of the Christian Church, Sweet
Valley, and took an active part in
civic and community affairs.
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Board Opens Bids
On School Addition
Dallas Township School Board met
last might to open bids on revised
plans for the addition to be built to
the high school this summer. Bids
on the original plans were too high
and were rejected. :
Teachers contracts were signed and
bus contracts were awarded.
MEN JUNE 26|
elief In”
are other projects awaiting approval
GUEST OF HONOR
George Gwilliam, who will be
guest of honor at a Testimonial
Dinner to be given on Tuesday
night in Hotel Mallow-Sterling by
members of Mr. Gwilliam’s “Good
Morning Club”. Mr, Gwilliam is
a summer-resident at Harvey's
Lake. A number of Dallas people
will be at the dinner.
Rains Stimulate
Cr 5 Growth Here
Improving Rapidly,
Say Farmers
Good rains throughout this section
during the last week stimulated growth
of crops and eliminated one of the
handicaps under which local farmers
have been laboring.
A survey of weather and crop con-
ditions follows:
Corn is being cultivated, and is gen-
erally looking good. Good stands are
reported in most regions, but the
growth continues to be rather slow.
Since the rains, it is believed that a
few days of sunshine “will put the
| crop in fine condition. Winter wheat
{is all headed, and beginning to bloom.
It seems to be good in all respects ex-
cept that the growth of straw is a bit
too rank in some regions, and is likely
to lodge as it ripens. Oats is fair to
good, being a little backward in some
places. Rye is usually tall and heavy
with a good strong straw. The heads
are filling, and in a few regions the
grain is turning color. The appearance
of the crop is the best that we have
had for four or five years.
On Committee
Miss Jean Turner of Dallas is a
member of the committee planning the
card party. to be given by Wyoming
Valley Chapter D. A. R., at Wyoming
Valley Woman’s Clubhouse and garden
in Wilkes-Barre on June 17.
Nation Celebrates 158th Birthday Of Flag Today;
Early Forerunners Of Stars And Stripes Recalled
Red, White & Blue Reachos|
‘Another Milestone In
Its History
Waving triumphantly through the
years, the Star Spangled Banner
reaches another milestone in its his-
tory with the observance of its birth-
day today.
‘Romance and a certain mystery
have surrounded our flag since its
adoption 158 years ago, clouding its
origin in a web of circumstances that
historians have never been able to un-
ravel successfully.
It is known definitely, however, that
on June 14, 1777, the Continental Con-
gress resolved: “That the flag of the
thirteen United States be thirteen
stripes, alternate red and white; that
the union be thirteen stars, white in
a blue field, representing a new con-
stellation.” Thus this date has come
to be observed each year as Flag Day.
Scores of flags represented the
hopes and aspirations of our fore-
fathers. Colonial flags show beavers,
rattlesnakes, pine trees and various
other insignia. Some bore the words,
“Hope,” “Liberty,” or “An Appeal to|
A favorite motto beneath
“Don’t
Heaven.”
the rattlesnage design was
that will be worth a trip. That's why
hundreds of people come here every
year to spend their vacations. You're {purpose on the part of the colonists
(Continued on Page 8.)
Tread on Me.”
The first flag to show a unity of
consisted of thirteen stripes, similar
to the design of today, except that
where the stars now appear the cross-
es of St. George and St. Andrew were
shown. It was usually called the
Grand Union Flag, and the crosses in-
dicated definite ties with the mother
country, which the colonists were as
vet unwilling to sever.
When the stars replaced the British
insignia, Old Glory was launched on
its career as our national emblem. At
first there were only thirteen stars in
the blue field, but as the years passed
and state after state entered the
Union, the number of stars multiplied
until now there are forty-eight .
From time to time slight changes in
the flag have been authorized by Con-
gress, and a design of fifteen stars
and fifteen stripes remained in vogue
HOW TO DISPLAY THE FLAG ;
The Flag represents a living country and is itself considered as a liv-
The Union of the Flag is the honor point; the right arm is the
ing thing.
sword arm and therefore the point of
These rules are furnished by Dallas Post, No. 674, American Legion.
1. The Flag should be displayed
only from sunrise to sunset or be-
tween hours designated by proper
authorities,
2. When carried in a procession
with other flags, The Flag should
be either on the marching right
or in front of the center of the
line.
3. When displayed with another
flag against a wall from crossed
staffs the U. S. Flag should be on
the right, its staff in front.
4, In a group of flags, the
American Flag should be at the
center or at the highest point.
danger and hence the place of honor.
5. Bunting should be arranged
with the blue above, the red be-
low.
6. When a flag is hung against
a wall the union should be upper-
most and to the Flag’s own right,
to the observer's left.
7. The Flag should never be
used to cover the speaker's desk
nor to drape over the front of the
platform.
8. When a Flag is worn out it
should not be cast aside but should
be destroved as a whole privately,
preferably by burning or by some
other method in harmony with
reverence and respect.
Emblem Of Justice To Those
Who Seek Protection
Under It
from 1795 until 1818. Then Congress
authorized a return of the flag to its
original form of thirteen stripes, one
star being added thereafter for each
state entering the Union.
Research has failed to prove defin-
itely just who was responsible for the
design of our National Flag. A fav-
orite tradition points to Betsy Ross
as the needlewoman whose fingers
wrought with loving care the first
sample of the Stars and Stripes, which
was almost identical with the flag we
know it today. :
We are told that late in the spring
of 1776 her little shop in Philadelphia
was visited by. some distinguished
patrons. A committee headed by
George Washington called on Mrs.
Ross and submitted a rough design of
a new type of flag in which stars had
been substituted for the crosses of St.
George and St. Andrew.
The committee was of the opinion
that the stars should be six-pointed
But Mrs. Ross, so the story goes,
showed how a five-pointed star could
be made with one snip of her scissors
and her suggestion was adopted.
Unfortunately no record of this
“first” flag has been preserved. But
the patriotic lady told the story over
(Continued on Page 5.)
$117, 000 ) For Work
se, 000 FOR J OBS AWAITING APPROVAL Now
In addition tothe $50,000 worth of work relief projects which are dor
pendent upon passage, of legislature pending in the General Assembly, there
additional $67,000 into Dallas and its vicinity.
— _® Together the projects which Tavs.
Vom
at Harrisburg which would bring an
‘been asked for Dallas Borough, Dal
las Township, Lehman, Kingston
Township, and Jackson Township
would cost about $117,000 and would
give employment to 500 men.
The Post listed a number of the
projects last week, including one call=
ing for a survey of Dallas Borough,
Dallas Township, and Kingston Town=-
ship School districts for assessment
purposes and to consider the advis-
ability of constructing a sewage dis~
posal system and a community water
system. That survey alone would cost
$10,000, :
Those projects await approval of a
group of bills drafted at the request of
the Public Works Administration and y
designed to set up machinery for
carrying out work relief projects. 3
In addition to these are two Dallas
Borough projects and three county
road jobs which would give employ-
ment of.from four to eighteen week
to 295 men. k
Local unemployed councils have
asked that men from this section be
given preference on the local Toltes
jobs.
The three county jobs are on. he
Orange-Dallas highway in Franklin
Township. One stretch of highway
In all 221 men will be given jobs on
that highway. The total cost would
be $59,552.20. 5
One of the Dallas Borough jobs
awaiting approval is the road con-
struction on Ridge Street, a job which
would employ about forty-three men
for four and one-half weeks and cost
$3,024.30.
The other borough project would be
the plastering of the interior walls and
ceilings of Dallas Borough High school
About thirty-one men would be em
ployed there for four weeks and the
cost is estimated at $5,012.20. :
These last projects are awaiting ap=-
proval in Harrisburg. No new pro-
jects have been approved since Janu-
ary. It is not known when the State
will approve these,
Horner To Speak
At Church Dinner
Boys’ Worker From “y» To
Address Fathers And
‘Sons
John M. Horner, boys’ secretary at
Wilkes-Barre Y. M. C. A. for a num-
ber of years and one of the outstand-
ing men in his field, will be the
speaker at the Father and Son dinner
to be held at Dallas M. E. Church on
Friday might.
The affair will be sponsored by the
Brotherhood of the church. Attorney
A. L. Turner will speak for the fathers
and Robert Fleming, youthful high
school orator who has been appearing
before audiences throughout this sec-
tion and Wyoming Valley, will respond
for the sons.
Professor Ernest Wood will be ac-
companist and Robert Collitt = will z
play trumpet solos. Robert Gehrie of
Kingston, tenor, will sing, Prizes will
be awarded to the oldest father, th
youngest son and the father wih the
most sons present. Pa ”
ol
Mr. Horner is widely known s thioRGh
out the State for his work among
boys. He heads one of the finest
boys’ “Y” departments in the country
and besides directing the activities at
the Wilkes-Barre building he directs
the summer “Y” camp in the Poconos:
A nt
TAX PAYMENT PLAN
Borough Board Makes Provisions For
Payment By Delinquent
Taxpayers
Dallas Borough School Board has an«
nounced two plans for the payment of
taxes by delinquents.
One provision makes it possible to
pay 1934 or prior, back taxes Phe
additional penalties or interest. The
second, a time payment plan, permits
payment over a five-year period, pro-
viding current taxes are paid in full, If
current taxes become delinquent during
ties will be reverted.
the period of partial payment, penal-
m’siN
THEPOST =
1. What new book relates the story :
of a French general who fired
on his own troops? (See —
Books). Spe
2. What cuts of meat are most
economical now? (See
Food
Market Advice). 5
3. Who were Cosette and Ma
(See concluding installment,
“Les Miseral}
4. What wag the significance of
the governmental crisis during
the "week of May 27? (See
Washington Snapshots). Ha
5. What is increasing your gaso- or
tine cost? (See Cartoon).