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great rural-suburban region of Luzerne County and in the attainment of the
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THE DALLAS POST will 1end its support and offers the use of itu
~ oolumns to all projects which will help this community and the great rurai-
suburban territory which it serves to attain the following major improve-
1. Construction of more sidewalks for the protection of pedestrians in
Kingston township and Dallas. . k
2. A free library located in the Dallas reaion.
8. Better and adequate street lighting in
Farnbrook and Dallas. tik
oe 4. Sanitary sewage disposat system for Dallas.
a 5. Closer co-operatjon between Dallas borough and surrounding townships.
i 6. Consolidated high schools and better co-operation between those that
now exist. 3 .
~ 7. Adequate water supply for fire protection.
8. The formatien of a Back Mountain Club made up of business men and
ome owners interested in the development of a community consciouszess in
allas, “rucksville, Shavertown and Fernbrook. .
209. A modern concrete highway leading from Dallas and connecting the
Sullivan Trail at Tunkhannock. 5
aI, THe elimination of petty poiitics from all School Boards in the region
covered by THE DALLAS POST. :
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"A THOUGHT FOR THIS WEEK .. .
5 We are the music-makers,
And we are the dreamers of dreams,
Wandering by lone-sea-breakers :
And sitting by desolate streams;
World-losers and world-forsakers,
Of whom the pale moon gleams;
' Yet we are the movers and shakers
Of the world for ever, it seems.
A. E. O’'SHAUGHNESSY—Music Makers
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“] wonder’ a gentleman asked us this week “if an editorial in The Post
~ would do any good toward stopping this canine chorus that has been splitting
_ our ears so often during the last several weeks.”
We suspect it will, not because we write such good editorials but because
the people that own the dogs only need the situation called
to their attention. We'd like to tell them, in a neighborly
sort of a way, about that situation.
For instance, we know of one lady who has been ill.
She sleeps lightly at best and every minute of sleep means
a great deal to her. Recently, she has had great difficulty in getting rest be-
cause dogs in the vicinity of her home create a noisy disturbance.
On these hot nights a great many people have difficulty in getting to
sleep. Frequently, just as they doze off, the chorus of yelps begins again and
all chances of slumber vanish. :
A few days ago a woman told us she had been able to snatch only a few
winks of sleep for the preceding three nights because dogs maintained an al-
most continual yowling. : 3
Some men and women discussed taking legal action but they decided that
that might provoke an unfriendly feeling among neighbors and they decided
to put up with the racket for a while longer.
pa Now we like dogs. We have one ourselves and we appreciate thoroughly
_ the problems of owning a dog. We know, too, that it is possible to train a
dog to obey a command to stop barking. We think it is proper that dog own-
AN
EDITORIAL
ABOUT DOGS
their neighbors.
We feel confident that the people who own the dogs that are creating the
trouble will do everything they can to prevent bad feeling among their neigh-
bors.
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When the present session of Congress authorized the issuance of an addi-
tional $1,750,000,000 of bonds to further the work of the Home Owners’ Loan
* Corporation in refinancing the property of distressed home owners, it was ex-
£3, pected that a minimum of 300,000 and possibly 400,000 new
LONG-TERM applications for home loans would be filed. But when the
HOME books were closed by the HOLC at midnight on June 27, as
FINANCING the law provides, it was found that the total of new applica-
: a tions on file was only 125,000. Financial writers who have
been keeping close tab on HOLC statistics, as strongly indicative of business
trends, are agreed that this proof that most of the country’s distressed home
owners have been provided for is a sure sign of a vast improvement in general
business conditions. Improvement in real estate values, they asserted, has led
~ to willingness as well as ability of banks and other private financing concerns
"to perform their normal functions which they were compelled to abandon in
the depth of the depression.
Since the HOLC was called into existence upon President Roosevelt's ur-
gent recommendation to Congress in 1933 it has saved from foreclosure ap-
~ proximately 900,000 urban homes with advances from the original three-billion
bond issued that already exceeds $2,700,000,000. When the law was enacted
the owners of residence properties and also the holders of mortgages on them
faced the most appalling situation in the history of any country. More than
two-thirds of the entire 21, billion dollars of urban home mortgages then out-
standing were short-term obligations on which the borrowers were unable to
pay principal or interest. The task of HOLC was to save these homes for
their owners by taking over the defaulted loans and refinancing them as long-
term amortized loans, payable in small monthly amounts, to include interest
and all charges, over a 15-year period.
Apart from its immediate purpose of saving homes, the permanent objec-
tive was the encouragement that has been given the adoption of the long-term
plan, in place of the frequently inconvenient and sometimes hazardous short-
term loans, formerly in general use by life insurance companies, mutual sav-
ings banks and other sources of private mortgage money. And a vital aspect
of the long-term amortization loan when employed by private lenders is that it
automatically furnishes a continuous supply of new mortgage money for new
loans, whereas the short-term renewable plan completely locks up investment
capital, to the greater risk and expense of all concerned. -
+ Possibly it was President Roosevelt's introduction of the $1OLC method
* that Mr. Hoover had in mind when he criticized the present administration for
* “Europeanizing the Government,” although one who has lived so many years
in England should make some distinction between the British Isles and the Con-
tinent of Europe. Because it cannot be denied that long-term home loans have
~ been in use in Great Britain for upwards of 150 years, to the complete exclu-
sion of the short-term type of home loan. And the astute and experienced
John H. Fahey, whose chairmanship of HOLC has had much to do with its
unqualified success, has declared that “had long-term home finance been the
yule rather than the exception in the United States, there could have been
po such serious mortgage crisis in 1933 as actually developed.”
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ers should exercise ‘that influence when their dogs become troublesome to
RATTLING A FEW
~ FAMILY SKELETONS
RIVES MATTHEWS DISCUSSES MARRIAGE
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It will be two years, come next Armistice Day, thav I took part in a curi-
ous wedding on the anniversary of the day when people all over the world went
wild with joy that men had stopped fighting each other in France. Two years
ago, come next Armistice Day, my sister, who was never noted for her sense of
humor, walked up the center aisle in the Church of the Ascencion on Fifth
Avenue, New York, and became the bride of John Rainey McGinley II.
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The New York papers, which reported the Armistice Day event, barely
hinted at the: warring factions involved. They said, in effect, that my sister
was the daughter of “Mrs. Skinker Matthews of the Hotel Ambassador and
Claude Levering Matthews of St. Louis,” and .that the groom was the son of
“Mrs. Holden McGinley of Milton, Mass., and of Thomas Atterbury McGinley
of Sewickley, Pa.” 2 :
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What they did not say was that Mr. Thomas Atterbury McGinley had
taken unto himself another wife after a divorce had separated him from the
lady known as Mrs. Holden McGinley. The papers certainly did not say Ms.
Holden McGinley and Mr. Thomas Atterbury McGinley preferred not to be un-
der the same roof with each other. The New York papers also failed to tell
their readers that Mrs. Skinker Matthews had divorced Mr. Claude Levering
Matthews and that they did not care to see each other very often, if at all.
Nothing, of course, was said about how my sister or I felt about these matters.
There’s a lot between the lines of every news item, if only we knew!
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I think Armistice Day will always remind me not that an uncle of mine
died in action a few days before the Allies and the Central Powers decided to
call it off, but that my sister and brother-in-law decided to call it all on. My
uncle was posthumousy awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor, a decora-
tion which was given to only thirty-two Americans during the war. My sister
and brother-in-law still go unhonored and unsung for their bravery. They had
plenty of examples to warn them.
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My father, of course, was part of the scenery at the church. He simply
had to be there. As an usher, it was my duty to meet my mother at the
church door and escort her to her place in the first pew and thus give the or-
ganist the signal to strike up the wedding march. My father, as is the custom
had to lead my sister to the altar and hand her over to the groom. But it was
expressly stipulated that when he stepped down from this task, he would retire,
not into the front pew, but into the one directly behind my mother, which con-
tained his sister and other relatives of his. >a
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In the front pew on the groom’s sire was his father, his father’s mother,
his father’s sisters, and the groom’s own sisters—but not his step-sister. The
groom’s mother, Mrs. Holden McGinley was not present.
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After the wedding, the reception which my mother gave at the Ambassa-
dor was attended by Mrs. Holden McGinley and various members of the Holden
family—but not by any members of the McGinley side of the groom’s family.
My father was not a guest of his-former wife—though his sister and some of
his nieces were.
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.But my father and Mr. McGinley had a sort of wedding reception of their
own—without wedding cake, and without the bride and groom—at one of
those places the very mention of which is liable to date one terribly: a speak-
easy. There both fathers toasted each other. I have the feeling Mr. McGinley
hoped his son was not getting the sort of wife his son’s mother made, and I
brother-in-law a better wife than her mother had made my father. I have al-
ways been sorry that circumstances prevented my being present at this strange
meeting of ex-parents, seated in a lonely speakeasy less than a week before
President Roosevelt made drinking a perfectly legal offense against whatever it
was that it was illegal for so many years before.
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I did have a chance to meet my brother-in-law’s mother for a few minutes,
and to say a few disconnected words in between introductions, congratulations,
and all the other conversational trivia which contribute to the vocal cacophony
of a wedding reception. I gathered she was the efficient, managing mother
type. My own mother, of course, I have known for some time. But heres a
little story that shows the difference between the two women.
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Honeymoons, I' have always understood, are supposed to have a certain
adventurous, almost mysterious atmosphere about them. But nowadays even
third rate Walter Winchell’s have no trouble in discovering for the Sunday edi-
tions where the happy pair are going, when they return, and where they will
live after they return. Their mothers, therefore, are expected to be acquainted
with their itinerary, including dates of departure and arrival on return.
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It was an open secret that my sister and her husband were going to Ber-
muda for two weeks and that on a certain date on a very certain boat. Con-
sequently both mothers were down on the dock to meet it. Mrs. Skinker Mat-
thews encountered Mrs. Holden McGinley with: “Oh, wasn’t it all too wonder-
full! You know, I've been having a simply marvelous time every day since the
wedding having dates with Jack’s ushers. They've been terribly sweet to me,
and it’s been such fun.
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Mrs. McGinley thereupon countered with: “I’ve been busy getting their
apartment in shape. You know the floors had to be waxed, the curtains hung
and the insurance men had to look over the silver. I spent the whole morning
today shopping, so they'd have enough food in the ice-box to get a meal.
I suppose they’ll learn how to manage in time, but it is going to be hard on
them at first without a maid . . .”” and so on.
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I can’t speak for my brother-in-law’s parents, because I don’t know. But
I do know this, that my own parents split up because first of all they didn’t
have what it takes to remain happy though married. It’s all very well to say
that my mother was a poor housekeeper, too much of a butterfly. One might
presume that had my father married Mrs. Holden McGinley he would have
been content with a wife who was more interested in seeing that the cupboard
wasn’t bare, than in dates. One might also presume that Mr. McGinley, con-
ceivably, would have been happy with a woman like my mother, rather than
with an efficient haus-frau. It’s easy enough to say these four people were
mismated from the start—and that it would have been better had they never
been married. I'm certain a lot of my “admirers” would even now approve the
non-existence of the biological urge which was responsible for my being.
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But the fact is, I am a fact, these marriages were a fact, and all these
tangled situations are still an unhappy fact. What to do about them? What, I
am so often asked, are the children of divorced parents like? What sort of
marriages do they make? Do they feel that because their parents divorced they
can find a way out of a marriage that does not work by seeking the sort of
Freedom Reno hands out for a price measured only in terms of dollars and
cents. ?
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I cannot exactly speak for myself, since I haven't tried that particular
noble experiment which is marriage. But I think I can speak for my sister and
brother-in-law. I’ think, since neither of them have the Roman Catholic reli-
gion to keep themselves bound to each other willy-nilly, that the tragic examples
on both sides of their house have served to make them both consider just how
serious a contract the marriage contract is. I think my sister knows that mar-
riage is nat all take, or all give—that it is a little give, and a little take. I
think my brother-in-law knows this too. I think it may be said for both of
them that as children, and, as such, parts of their parents, they were burned in
the fire of divorce. Once burred, twice shy, you know. ;
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‘And so I think it was particularly appropriate that my sister selected
Armistice Day as her wedding day—not because of the irony involved in hav-
ing such a wedding on the anniversary of the day when fighting ceased in
Europe—but because of the subtle notice she served on our warring families
that for her and her husband the war was over.
have the sneaking suspicion that my father hoped my sister would make my
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“IT’S TRUE! that a unique detail in ‘Escapade’ is the use
of recordings by the late Enrico Caruso, amplified to operatic
level with augmented orchestration, for the ‘Vienna Opera
sequence,” says artist Padan. “The most life-like reproduction
of the tenor’s voice ever achieved was successfully made!”
On the floor of the Senate recently Senator Couzens read an account of
a conversation held during a previous depression between the elder J. P. Mor-
gan and the late: Rev. Dr. W. S. Rainsford. Asked what the trouble was
with business, Mr. Morgan replied:
“The trouble is that fools won’t show each other their books.”
Dr. Rainsford remarked that Mr. Morgan would not be willing to show
his own books and the financier replied:
“Well, rector, the time is coming when all business will have to be done in
glass pockets.”
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There are at least three men in the Capital who will be glad to see Con-
gress adjourn, even though it means going home and facing fuming constitu-
ents. These are Senator Robinson of Arkansas, the Democratic leader; Sena-
ator Byrnes of South Carolina, a personal spokesman for President Roosevelt.
It may be that all thee believe whole-heartedly in the radical legislation
which they have been compelled to bludgeon through Congress. They may be
devoted to the opinion that it is right and proper for young lawyers a few
years out of college to write laws, hand them to Congress and demand their
enactment, even though they block recovery. But if this trio does believe that
way, then leopards change their spots. The truth is that the triumvirate of
conservative Democrats has been placed very squarely on the spot .All are up
for re-election next year. Withholding now by the Administration of some of
the millions of relief money from their states would be ruinous. They would
then be damned by those who oppose the socialistic measures of this Congress,
and damned by those who support the Administration. So the best they can
hope for is an early end of their sorrows.
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The suddenness of the President’s “‘Share-the-Wealth”” message was the
climax of the three senators’ discomfiture. Not even the closest administra-
tion writers have seen anything in that except politics to offset Huey Long.
Then the strategy went astray and gestures were made toward putting the leg-
islation through. And, lo, it was Robinson, Byrnes and Harrison who were
called to the White House and given the job. :
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The latest report in unemployment from the National Industrial Confer~
ence Board shows more than 9,000,000 still jobless, an increase as compared
with May of last year. Most of this still lies in the durable goods industries,
and these industries are dependent upon a renewal of investment capital to
move ahead. Not even Democratic leaders have attempted to explain how
posed to be the national goal—reemployment.
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Not much is being said openly but there is plenty of red-hot maneuvering
by members of Congress to get a major modification of the ruling that limits
work-relief expenditures to approximately $1,100 a man per year, including
cost of materials. It developed that this. meant no major highway construs-
tion, despite blue-prints already waiting. Delegations from home began to
roll in, and Mr. Roosevelt heard that Mr. Hopkins once more had upset the
soup. The question still remains whether new leaf-raking and park beauti-
fication projects will get the money and leave the jobless still jobless, while
those with jobs pay the bill.
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Among the interesting documents called to the attention of Congress this
week was a statement from Cooley’s ‘famous “Principles of Constitutional
Law.” The portion which attracted attention reads:
“Legislators have their authority measured by the Constitution; they are
chosen to do what it permits and nothing more, and they take solemn oath to
obey and support it. When they disregard its provisions, they usurp authori-
ty, abuse their trust, and violate the promise they have confirmed by oath. To
pass an act when they are in doubt whether it does violate the Constitution, is
to treat as of no force the most imperative obligations any person can assume.”
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Observation shows that the productivity of the American worker, rein-
forced with power and with improved machinery, is the greatest in the world,
and that the income thus produced has been widely diffused among all classes
of the population.
If this were not the case, the widespreadl distribution of automobiles, re-
frigerators, radios, telephones and individually owned houses, which actually
took place, would have proved impossible.
tor Harrison of Mississippi, the chairman of the Finance Committee; and Sen~
share-the-wealth schemes which drive capital to cover will attain what is sup-