THE DALLAS POST, DALLAS, PA.. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1935.
. Letters To The Editor - Comment -
A THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK
Now the New Year reviving old Desires,
The thoughtful Soul to Solitude. retires.
‘ OMAR KHAYYAM—Rubayait
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There need be little sighing this week for 1935. The world will be well
rid of it. It offered the idealists exceptionally little to substantiate their theory
4 that the world is growing better. War and violence and
- HAPPY selfishness are the dominant notes in the chronology of
NEW the year. We are fortunate to have it behind us. :
YEAR Although the year’s great disillusionments were in the
: : international field, the record here at home was not one
to justify boasting. The same courageous group of leaders launched a new list
of civic programs and the same disinterest and lack of support cut them short
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of accomplishment. : :
- One thing is certain. Nineteen thirty five will give the world a stimulating
‘new lot of problems. And problems always develop new leaders. And, if the
problems themselves are not sufficiently stimulating, there will be, for men and
women with brains, the assurance that great fortunes will be made as America
continues its slow, laborsome climb out of the depression.
All in all, 1936 will offer the right persons unprecedented opportunities for
fame and fortune, As Elbert Hubbard said “Opportunity not only knocks at
your door but is playing an anvil chorus on every man’s door, and then lays
for the owner around the corner with a club.”
"The world is ready for men who can do things.
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This editorial is in the nature of an Open Letter To The Public—in which
this newspaper expresses its appreciation for recent values received. :
: : First, The Post desires to acknowledge publicly its
FOR sincere appreciation to everyone who helped this week in
THESE collecting toys for the children or needy families in this
"THINGS . . . sectioh. ;
Fi The increased response this year indicates that the
Christmas toy giving custom, as inaugurated by The Post last year, may grow
into a thing much bigger than we anticipated. More new toys were contribut-
ed, a number of people sent money, despite The Post’s announcement that
only toys would be accepted, and everyone showed a splendid spirit of willing-
' ness to help. ;
The list of donors is too long to reprint, and the people who helped prob-
~ ably would not want their names made public. We hope that they appreciate
that we are grateful to them, all of them.
Secondly, The Post desires to thank those who have made the crusade
| against war, which ends with this issue, a success. Nothing The Post has ever
attempted has attracted such wide-spread interest.
How much has been accomplished in convincing the people of this sec-
tion of the futility of war must remain problematical, but if the letters and
comments are an accurate guage of general sentiment it is true that there
never has been such a definite and vigorous sentiment against war.
The campaign itself ends this week, bit it i§ already certain that the
readers of The Post will not permit us to drop the matter abruptly. Already
plans for a continuation of the movement are being discussed and those peo-
ple who have supported the campaign can be assured that it has fired a flame
which shall not soon die.
For these things, and for the many new friendships that have been made
during the last few months, The Post is extremely grateful.
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In a few weeks Congress will be at it again.
The general hope is that the session will be short and snappy but the same
old signs preceding a hectic, busy meeting are present.
President Roosevelt has said he would like to limit
legislation to two or three major bills in addition to the
annual measures appropriating funds to pay government
expenses. One will be a neutrality bill replacing the pres-
ent temporary act. Ship subsidy legislation appears headed for a top place on
CONGRESS
GETS
READY
the list. And there will, of course be oratory and action on relief expenditures.
Many who serve in Congress would like a short session, according to leg-
islators from this region with whom we have talked lately. Early next summer
all of the 435 house members and a third of the 96 senators have to start active
campaigns for election. The President will be doing the same thing. All want
Congress out of the way by the time the Republicans and Democrats hold their
quadrennial conventions in mid-summer.
Industry, too, wants a short session because of improvement since the de-
mise of NRA and its arbitrary regulation. Business is always hesitant to act when
Congress is meeting because of doubt as to what Congress might do.
Despite this, the session ‘may be a long one. Among scores of other po-
tential trouble makers are the bonus, dollar stabilization, the Frazier-lemke
$4,000,000,000 farm mortgage refinance bill, the Walsh government-contract
plan, and measures applying NRA limitations to other industries if the Guffey
Coal Act lives through the courts.
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We are afraid there is very little Colonel and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh
—or anyone else, for that matter— can do about killing the intense curiosity
the public has about the private life of the aviator and his
family. i
That is unfortunate, but it is undeniably true. It is
too late for the Lindbergh’s ever to hope to enjoy the
humble and undisturbed station which most of find monot-
LINDBERGH
THE
INSTITUTION
onous.
You cannot blame that upon Colonel Lindbergh, the police, the govern-
ment or the newspapers. It is just a thing that has happened to a man who
stumbled into greatness and accepted it so gracefully that—to the public—he
ceased to be a man and became an institution.
Wherever he goes, whatever he does, until the generation which idolizes
him perishes, Colonel Lindbergh will have the eys of the world upon him. Thus
the world punishes those it admires most.
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The New Meal is so cramped for space that Secretary Ickes of the In-
terior has suggested the government find additional office quarters in Baltimore,
about 40 miles from Washington.
The government already rents 2,500,000 square feet in 103 buildings, in-
cluding hotels, some old mansions and apartment houses, Besides, it has 12,-
000,000 square feet in 101 government-owned buildings.
Ickes’ worry now is room for the new Social Security Board. It is calculat-
ed that by the end of 1937 this new agency's staff will dwarf all old-line gov-
ernment agencies save the army and navy.
WEEKLY BOOST
DANIEL C. ROBERTS
of Brooklyn, N. Y., and Harvey's Lake, who, during the past year has
made sizable donations to Harvey's Lake Fire Co., the Franklin Club,
I» Bucknell University and, only this week, Wyoming Seminary, thus estab-
} adishing a record for generosity never equalled here.
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THE DALLAS POST PROGRAM
THE DALLAS POST will lend its support and offers the use of its
columns to all projects which will help this community and the great
rural suburban territory which it serves to attain the following major
improvements:
1. Construction of more sidewalks for the protection of pedestrians in
Kingston township and Dallas.
2. 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
townships. t
Dallas borough and surrounding
6. Consolidated high schools and better co-operation between those
that now exist.
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7. Adequate water supply for fire protection. .
8. The formation of a Back Mountain Club made up of business men
and home owners interested in the
sciousness in Dallas, Trucksville, Shavertown and Fernbrook.
development of a community con-
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9. A modern concrete highway leading from Dallas and connecting
with the Sullivan Trail at Tunkhannock.
THE MAIL BAG
In this depratment, The Post presents letters from its readers on cur-
rent problems—suggestions, criticisms, bouquets. The Post need not indorse
any sentiment or criticisms expressed here, neither can it vouch for the ad:
curacy of any statements made. It recognizes only that in this country
people have, within reason, the right to express themselves.
Your Turn Next, Jim
Dear Editor:
It is a poor year indeed when the
hunting season does not provoke a few
tall hunting stories for the Dallas boys
to amuse themselves throughout the
winter and this year is no exception.
This one has its inception on the
hunting trip enjoyed by some mem-
bers of the Blue Ribbon Club, on the
Barkley Mountain, To be sure there
must be a “goat” for the story and
this tale has one in the person of J. F.
Besecker, popular local automobile
man.
Jim, we all know is an ardent Blue
Ribboner and a faithful attendant at
the weekly meetings. But he is an
equally ardent hunter and it was with
an all-conquering air that Jim went out
for his “antlerless” deer on the first
day of hunting season.
His enthusiasm carried him through
a hard morning’s hunt, and his spirit
undimmed by the lack of a conquest
over a deer, Jim proceeded to show his
fellow hunters just how a kill should
be accomplished. Professor Jim gave
the boys a very forceful and an equal-
ly thrilling lesson during the noon
hour. Time after time with his trusty
gun unerring he put hole after hole in
a“ tin can, and broke all the glass in
the vicinity during this period of in-
struction.
Along in the afternoon the professor:
Pop's Primer
was trudging along the path of all
great hunters when he was startled by
the sudden’ appearance of four of the
long sought antlerless friends. Now we
all know that it is a very special pri-
vilege of professors to be absent mind-
ed at times and this was the occasion
for Professor Besecker to exercise his.
(Voice) “Bob”—"“Bob”, the profes-
sor called—"Here they come’ “Shoot!
Shoot!”
Bob of course shot one of the deer,
but the professor's gun remained
strangely silent. Professor Jim got his
deer by proxy of his voice, instead of
his gun. *
Notwithstand, they began almost
immediately to berate and belittle Bob
for shooting a “Jackrabbit”’—since the
deer was a small one. Jim completely
olecked the fact that he urged the
ill.
Yet later in the day Professor Be-
secker was seen to emerge from the
woods and under one arm was an even
smaller “jackrabbit”. No! dear read-
er, the professor did not kill this one
either.
The professor remembered his Sun-
day School lesson from the preceding
Sunday, and from somewhere out of
the deep recesses of his mind Professor
Besecker remembered that great doc-
trine of all True - Christians, “Thou
Shalt Not Kill.”
R. H.
By Bob Dunn
WHAT 1S
THE LADY
DOING,
PAPA 2
SHE IS
CHIPPING
EMPTY
LIQUOR
an
A NEW LAW, SON -{T
PROTECTS THE PLBLIC
FROM POISONOUS LIQUOR
AND HELPS UNCLE SAM
COLLECT THE MILLIONS OF
TAXES WHICH THE BOOT-
LEGGERS HAD BEEN
STEALING - BOOTLEGGERS
CANT USE BROKEN BOTTLES
SO EVGRYPODY'S
HAPPY EXCEPT
THE BOOTLEGGER
Cost of government, taxation, and economy loom as major, if not the most
important issues on the 1936 political horizon, according to the weighted
ion of Washington observers. In two successive speeches President Roo:
ha referred to efforts to cut expenditures. Many political students ha
interested. But this is belied by the fact that in the face of repeated de
‘by the business community that the cost of government be reduced
endangering public credit, the administration has been forced to admi
duction must come. 39
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Robert L. Lund, of St. Louis, president of the National Association
Manufacturers, pointed out in addressing the organization’s conventio
week, that acceptance of this principle, scoffed at by New Dealer }
years, has been forced by public opinion, and that if public opinion has
pelled such a shift it can go further and make economy a dominant qu
of 1936. : Hs
i Xo Kd } Ed i PR
While this subject was being discussed widely in Washington, the Trea:
announced that the government debt for the first time in history |
above the $30,000,000,000 mark. The nse in the public debt since be
Civil War is shown in a table compiled by the Associated Press:
June 30, 1861
June 30,
June 30, :
June 30, a BERR ,225,145,568
June: 30, 19194. 0, .5 pon dL Ri sal RR 25,482,034,419
June 30, 16,185,308,299
June 30, :
June 30,
June 30, 1934
June 30, 1935
Nov. 27, 1935
This 1s exclusive of the state and local government indebtedness, whi
when added to federal red figures, lifts the general indebtedness to above $50,
000,000,000. :
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An unrevealed drama of the fight between the public utilities, theit st x
holders, and the Administration was described recently by Arthur K
Washington correspondent of the New York Times in telling the facts 1 din
up to the present deadlock and court fight. i
+ “There was an occasion during the early stages of the Congressional batt
when the utilities executives held out on olive-branch to the very Presid
Ne
That was when, as is not generally known, their representatives plac
desk an itemized list of $3,000,000,000 in industrial projects which
industry ‘was ready to begin expending if the proposed act would
gulation.
“Three billions, financed in the then slowly convalescing capital
and spent in the still lagging heavy industries market, was a high stak
covery. No man in the country wanted more to see this golden tide
than the President.”
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In its leading editorial of recent issue the Yale Alumni Wee
sharp attention to the growing tendency of educators to divide their
tween teaching and fostering public movements of one kind or anoth
times drawing their institutions into unfavorable publicity. ied
“A faculty member who persists in thrusting himself, as an agitato
a political or labor quarrel may find that he is no longer of use to
versity,” the alumni paper warned. 0
Pointing out that Yale had been more free from such altercatio
might be expected in these disorderly days,” the paper added: “There
been on occasion, however, a type of personal adventure into the field
controversy, in which, for one, we have often felt we might have |
not be the losers. We refer to the sort of episode which publicly
teacher of the university in a quarrel, where the teacher may find t
brought the university into the limelight with himself. :
“In such a case it is not the individual’s opinions as a scholar that :
sues; it is his public appearance, in action, as an agitator. It is this
case that merits official rebuke, and which, if persisted in, makes the of
no longer of use to his university. The element of responsibility to a
tution here comes in, overlying, we should say, his rights to free action
individual citizen.” :
In this outline of principles for teachers the Yale Weekly su;
intent of limiting the rights of any citizen. A member of the facu
same privileges as any other citizen to exercise his sufferage a
mind upon public questions. But more and more often we find the profes
occupying the forefront in agitation for one cause or another. The [
freedom with their neighbors, but this hardly entitles them to use their po
tion as public servants to crusade up and down the land with impractical id
applied to practical problems. I He
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“The dangers which lurk behind the Social Security Act do
its birth,” writes Abraham Epstein, executive director of the American
ciation for Social Security, in the December issue of Harpers Magaz
plan contemplates the building up of the most gigantic reserve, estimate
reach over fifty billion dollars by 1980—more than four times the valu
all thel gold reserves of the world’s central banks and governments. The freez
ing of so much sorely needed purchasing power cannot but hamper recovery
The problem of investing such huge sums will prove insuperable. Ne ic
guarantee that such fantastic governmental credits will ever be made good.
is utopian to pledge today the America of fifty years hence. Large reserves a
always in danger of being usurped by politicians for other purposes, as ex
v . “pr . . A RAT
perienced with other funds amply testifies. Should even a partial inflation wipe
out some of these funds, no one can calculate the menace it will create.
“It is a confession of complete ignorance of the principles of social ins
ance for liberals to argue that with all its faults, the Act, nevertheless “maki
a beginning.” A beginning toward what? Only incapacity to see the long rang
interests of labor prompts William Green to gloat over the fact that the Ac
places the responsibility for unemployment insurance upon employers.
on payrolls is ‘not a tax on the owners of industry but on the workers a
sumers. The Act does not levy a cent on the owners of industry, as M
thinks it does. And it is palpable nonsense or worse for Miss Perkins to ar
great hopes that this Act will give protection to the working masses . . .
Act merely sets up a system of compulsory payments by poor :
erished Peter. The law actually decreases the purchasing power of
by depriving them of immediate purchases, by relieving the well-to-c
share of the social burden, and by making the workers pay the
vask administration. It is especially cruel and reprehensible to s:
employed workers new and burdensome direct and indirect
of continued unemployment amidst rising prices, mounting St
sales taxes, which fall largely upon the poor, and a steadily
scale, considerably induced by low PWA wages.” Ran