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A THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK
You to the left and I to the right,
For the ways of men must sever—
And it may be for the day and a night,
And it well may be forever.
, But whether we meet or whether we part,
. (For our ways are past our knowing)
A pledge from the heart to its fellow heart,
On the ways we all are going!
Here's luck!
For we know not where we are going.
RicHARD HoveEy—At the Crossroads
X The President Of Wyoming Seminary ”
Dr. Levi L. Sprague, who has been president of Wyoming Seminary for
sixty- nine years, has been building character and developing girls and boys
into useful citizens for so long that he has achieved a greatness few men
achieve within their lifetime. ; ;
The universal respect for Doctor Sprague springs, we suppose, from the
fact that you can find some of his former students in almost any corner of the
globe. But although their loyalty to the venerable educator and his school is
intense, they are deprived of the enjoyment we have in being near enough to
him to benefit by the constant example he sets.
It is difficult to realize that Doctor Sprague was ninety-one last month,
especially if you have seen him recently rooting for one of the Seminary’s
football teams in a teeming downpour, or leaving for a hunting trip, or holding
an audience’s rapt attention. Actually, the years seem to fall lightly from his
spare shoulders, and there is every indication that his greatest honors are be-
fore him. ;
Since he is fundamentally a humble and sincere person, Dr. Sprague does
not like the alumni dinners to be called testimonials to him. But the people
‘who have attended those dinners in different parts of the East and the local
folk who will be at the Wilkes-Barre dinner on Washington's Birthday, al-
though respecting the Doctors graciousness, welcome these opportunities to
crystallize their feeling for him. 3
"Perhaps the keynote of these affairs which come while the Doctor is en-~
tering his ninety-first year is the benefit his former students receive by refresh-
ing the ideals which Doctor Sprague first gave them one or five or fifteen or
twenty-five years ago. ;
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Millions Dance So Thousands May Walk
It was unfortunate that there were not more Birthday Balls throughout
this section last night, but it was particularly fitting that Noxen should lead
in contributing to the fund which finances the crusade against infantile paralysis.
Some years ago Noxen experienced a serious epidemic of the dread dis-
ease. The readiness with which the people there adopted the idea for—not
one—but three parties to raise money for President Roosevelt's favorite cause.
indicates that they realize, probably more than most people, the woeful trage-
dy of the disease—and the necessity for combatting it on a broad scale.
Infantile paralysis accounts for 27.26 per cent of the cripples among
children. Every year some 10,000 youngsters are struck down, and in epidemic
years the toll of the disease increases to 40,000. Until a comparatively short
time ago so little was known about the disease that #e strifken ones were ab-
solutely without hope. : :
It was the first President Roosevelt who first stirred public interest in
cripples by inviting to the White House in 1909 the social workers’ conference
“on dependent children. And now another Roosevelt is taking the lead in the
fight against the scourge that can, in a few days, sweep up a child in the full
‘bloom of health, and cast him into a pit of terror and pain.
In 1925 President Roosevelt discovered that bathing in the water at
arm Springs was particularly efficacious in helping infantile paralysis victims.
‘He was so impressed with his own and other's improvement that he decided
in 1926 to conduct some experimental work. Twenty-three patients were placed
* under observation, and at the end of their treatment a detailed report of each
case was made. Each expressed unqualified approval of the establishment of a
hydro-therapeutic center at Warm Springs, and on July 28, 1927, the Warm
Springs Foundation was incorporated.
~The first Birthday Ball was held three years ago. Its purpose is to estab-
Tish through the direct help of citizens of the country an endowment fund, so
that the Georgia Warm Springs Foundation and other agencies engaged in the
fight against infantile paralysis may carry on the national crusade. Several per
cent of the proceeds from the local affairs went to the communities in which
they were sponsored; thirty per cent will be sent to Warm Springs Foundation.
~The people who attended any of the affairs at Noxen, the dance at
Wilkes-Barre, or any of the other parties, may well feel that they have helped
in a unique crusade.
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Attention Municipal Officials
Local municipal officials should greet with enthusiasm the news that the
Department of Internal Affairs of Pennsylvania has completed a system for
uniform accounting:
There are 5,600 local units of government in Pennsylvania whose annual
expenditures exceed $500,000,000 dollars, so that the business of government
is one in which each and every tax payer should be intensely interested and
a business which officials should be anxious to improve.
A The better local government is made, the more secure will its foundations
become and there is consequently maintained the spirit of government upon
‘which our American system is founded.
Those local officials who have not inspected the new uniform system
should investigate it immediately.
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Editorial Note
The conservatives who were shocked by the assaults upon the dignity of
the Supreme Court should remember that there is a certain responsibility, too,
toward the President of the United States. Some of the current cheap, bitter,
slurring remarks exceed the usual political liberty. It would seem that charges
against him could be made with more dignity.
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: While fifty-two nations stand solidly together to punish Italy and preserve
World Peace, this nation is doing exactly what it did before our war with
~ England in 1812, and our war with Germany in 1917. We are insisting again
~ upon isolated neutrality.
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: Maybe this trend toward stressing the ghastliness of motor accidents has
~ gone too far. After all, it is a little unpleasant to have the gory details of
crashes repeated, especially since by now most of us have become steeled to
the bloody word pictures. It may be time again to stress three common-place
rules: 1. Be sure your car is in safe condition; 2 Be sure you're in a safe con-
dition. 3. Drive carefully.
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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. 4
2. A free library located in the Dallas region.
3. Better and adequate street lighting in Trucksville, Shavertown,
Fernbrook and Dallas. i
4, Sanitary sewage disposal system for Dallas.
| 5. Closer co-operation between Dallas borough and surrounding
townships.
‘6. Consolidated high schools and better co-operation between Li
that nowy exist. y
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 development of a community con-
sciousness in Dallas, Trucksville, Shavertown and Fernbrook.
9. A modern concrete highway leading from Dallas and connecting
with the Sullivan Trail at Tunkhannock.
WEEKLY BOOST
DALL‘ S BUSINESS MEN’S ASSOCIATION
For acting fairly and decisively in its first important opportunity to
represent local business men and for securing the 150-day postponement
of the increased meter rates.
THE BUSINESS WEEK
. This survey of business conditions during the last seven days is com-
piled by The Post from business figures furnished by the United
States Department of Commerce.
Despite some adverse factors, business in most of the 33 cities reporting to
the Department for the week was be®: than in the same period last year. Ru-
ral merchandise sales in tobacco areas were particularly good, mainly in Ken-
tucky, Tennessee, Virginia, and North Carolina. Southern States also reported
increased interest in livestock breeding with strong demand for work stock. New
York reported mixed trends in retail as a result of adverse weather, but on the
whole, trade was better than last year with ready-to-wear clothing the prime
gainer. Chicago, Minneapolis and Los Angeles were among the cities reporting
excellent results from promotions and spectacular gains in department store
sales and retail generally were reported by Pittsburgh, Dallas, Memphis, Den-
ver, Kansas City, Atlanta, Seattle and Boston.
Wholesale was spotty with confusion over AAA a predominant influence.
Most wholesale centers reported gains over last year but an unchanged level
from the previous week. Memphis reported cautious buying among rural mer-
chants. Restrictions were reported on the Boston textile markets, particularly
in finished cloth lines. With the. exception of cotton textiles, New York markets
were busy with heavy registration of buyers whose tendency was not to cover
more than 30 days. St. Louis and Baltimore wholesalers felt the uncertainty
resulting from the decision. In Kansas City optimism prevailed that hesitancy
would pass off with the enactment of new farm legislaiont. Heavy registrations
featured the Chicago merchandise mart with furniture orders running 50 per-
cent ahead of last year.
Industry continued to move forward in virtually all centers with employ-
ment indexes higher. Plant expansions were numerous. Detroit reported the ex-
penditure of more than $1,000,000 on two brewery projects and Louisville re-
ported considerable activity in the distillery and brewery fields and steel plants
were-increasingly busy in Birmingham, Pittsburgh and Cleveland: A sharp up-
turn was noted in the lumber industry ‘in reports from Portland and New
Orleans. Boston reported increased production of Spring footwear. The glass
and pottery business in Pittsburgh was on the up grade. Most industry had
more momentum than last year. Winter tourist cities were crowded.
A New Form of Federal “Aid.”
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THIS IS JOHN CITIZEN
AND HIS INCOME IS —
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~ POLITICS
(Each week The Post receives heaping loads of publicity from
Democrats and Republicans. Because it represents a prejudiced point of
view, most of it is assigned to the waste basket. But most of it is written
by shrewd analysts and some of it is good. As an experiment, The Post
will use such articles in this column occasionally, with full explanation of
the source. This discussion was written by Charles Michelson, famed
war-time publicity expert, for the Democratic National Committee.)
Shocked concern is being expressed by Republican officials over the
warning by National Chairman Farley that the opposition would make the com-
ing campaign about the bitterest and probably the dirtiest on record. In fact
Republican Chairman Fletcher and Republican Congressional Chairman Bolton
solemnly enjoined ithe politicians of their party to avoid singing to the depths
of the Democrats.
And all the time there was a steady output of anti-Roosevelt defamation,
some of it of a character that made it inadmissable to the mails. Part of the .
scurrilous flood was so bad that the Republican Chairman had to deny that it
was issued by his authority—not, however, until it had been circulated for
weeks and in such volume as to make it certain that there was considerable or-
ganization in the production and distribution of the cartoons and literature.
_ Among the delicate propaganda presented were caricatures of the President
grinning over tombstones with legends attributing to him responsibility for the
assassination of Senator Huey Long and the death of Senator Bronson Cuttong.
In the deep south there is being circulated a publication conveying that the
President and Mrs. Roosevelt frequently had negroes as dinner guests and
house guests.
Among the other choice morsels of the campaign are suggestions as to the
President’s physical and mental health, with the implication that both are bad.
The Republican National Committee insists that it is not paying for any
of these things, which is probably true. That organization has so many recog-
nized and informal allies, ranging from the Liberty League to Mr. John H.
Kirby's Southern Committee to Uphold the Constitution, and including the “Na-
tional Republican Council,” that it should have no trouble keeping its skirts
reasonably clean during the campaign of abuse and falsehood that is so clever-
ly presaged by what has already been done.
Playing Havoc With Potatoes
_ Anybody who recalls the whispering forays of the 1928 and 1932 cam-
paigns will appreciate how it is done. In neither of those two campaigns did the
official G. O. P. organization endorse the issues of scandal and intolerance, but
these things continued right up to election day in both cases.
One element of the present combat that has Mr. Fletcher's endorsement
consists of radio skits, the presentation of which has already been begun. The
system is all right, for every party has the privilege of course of presenting
dramatized fiction, but there ought to be a basis of truth for the statements
that are put into the mouths of the players. For example, here is an excerpt
from the script of one of these playlets: i
Esley Stebbins said something about raising money. And the dialogue runs
on from there:
JOHN: “Whisper when ye use that word.”
ESLEY: “What word?”
JOHN:“Ye can’t talk about raisin’ anything—that’s almost as bad as
payin’ yer debts.”
ESLEY: “What are you ravin’ about?”
JOHN: “Don’t you rec’lect what happened to Burt Lyman fer raisin’
twenty barrels 0’ potatoes? Six months in jail!”
Of course, there has not been a prosecution of any kind under the potato
act, which, incidentally, is not an administration measure but was passed in’
the face of protest from the Department of Agriculture and enacted into law
largely by Republican Congressional votes. !
This perhaps comes under the head of poetic license, or something of
that kind.
Painless Tears and Groundless Fears?
In the same scintillating playlet John and Mary came to the marriage license
bureau and talk to the official about their prospective nuptials. And we get
this conversation:
CLERK: “You are going to get married.”
JOHN: *Yes—but—" :
CLERK: "You are going to establish a family, and as the head of an
American family you will shoulder a debt of more than $1,017.26—and it’s
growing every day.” : :
JOHN: “Gosh”!
MARY: “Do we have to pay it?”
CLERK: “It is a debt. It must be paid.”
JOHN: “Before we get married?”
CLERK: “No, but you have to carry that burden and pay interest on it,
in addition to the money you have to pay out to support all the other govern-
ment expenses.’
MARY: “How much is all that?”
CLERK: ‘The average per family is $240 per year, about $4.60 a week.
And that doesn’t include the money you pay out to run your city, county and
state governments.” X f
MARY: : Why, that leaves only $20.40 a week for us, even after John
gets his raise.
So they mournfully decided that they could not afford to marry, which is’
too bad, particularly as John’s earnings were far below even the lowest brackets
on the tax list and so their fears were groundless.
A cynical public had the idea all the time that what was worrying the plu-
tocrats was the surtaxes on incomes in excess of $50,000 and inheritance tax-
es on fortunes upwards of $10,000,000.
SUNNY
SQUIBS
They say people will sign their
names to anything, but some don’t
seem willing to sign their names to
checks paying their bills.
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Many girls are said to be gold-dig~
gers. Anyway, we are safe from their
lures when we haven't got any money.
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While the women are trying to pick
the best perfume, the men of Dallas
probably will say that nothing *beats
that of a fried pork chop.
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_ People are told to live within their
income, Some accomplish that feat by
including in their income everything
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People are told to pay more atten«
tion to signals by motorists. Anyway
the girls pay attention quickly when
the boy friends signal by honking in
front of their doors.
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Fhe good old hymn sair “Lift high
the banner”, but the boys along the
roads don’t seem to lift much of any-
thing but their thumb.
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