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The DallasPost
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the attainment of the highest ideals of journalism. THE POST is truly
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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
ge rural suburban territory which it serves to attain the following major
improvements: :
i Construction of more sidewalks for the protection of pedestridns 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.
xB, Closer co-operation ye Dablas borough and surrounding
townships.
A THOUGHT FOR THIS WEEK
~ There are but two ways of rising in the world; either
by one’s own industry or profiting by the foolishness of
others. i
—LA BRUYERE
A Summer Theatre At Harvey's Lake
What with half the nation’s old barns being given over
which undoubtedly ranks as the outstanding summer
resort in this section, cannot have a summer theatre, too.
~The highly successful venture along that line at Lake
uangola has illustrated what patronage can be attracted
Bf a cool place to be entertained. The Grove Theatre is en-
tering its third year at Nuangola and has already become
such an institution that it receives mention regularly in the
‘recognized trade journals of the theatre.
Because the season is already well started it might be
“impossible to organize a summer theatre now, but we have
no doubt that some of the more talented of the summer resi-
dents about Harvey's Lake could plan to give some credit-
“able performances there during July and August.
3 ‘Such an attraction would not only be good for the
Lake's businesses but would serve in introducing Lake sum-
“mer folk to each other and give them a pleggant and conven-
~ dent way to spend some lazy summer evenings. There should
be no difficulty in finding a place to give plays, nor in en-
listing volunteers who, for the fun of it, would spend part of
their vacationin planning and staging the productions.
oh Or, if Harvey's Lake declines to accept the suggestion,
there is a beautiful natural amphitheatre overlooking
Huntsville Dam where some Back Mountain organization
might plan to produce an historical pageant for the sum-
“mer folk sometime in early August. :
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A Hard Task, But A Man’s Task
: It is no easy job into which Hprry L. Tennyson will
step when he becomes supervising principal of Dallas Bor-
ough’s schools next Wednesday. :
The principalship of the borough’s school system has
been a storm center for many years. Within the last few
months it has become again the pivot point for an unfor-
: ‘tunate political controversy. The dust from the latest
trouble seems to be settling now and perhaps a new chapter
is opening. i :
Mr. Tennyson comes with exceptionally good refer-
ences. The people who have met him have been impressed
by his apparent friendliness, alertness, and fairness. The
Post extends a warm welcome to him, assures him of its de-
_ sire to co-operate with him in anything that will contribute
to the progress of Dallas schools, and hopes that all other
~ gitizens of the town will now resolve to put political preju-
dice. aside and concentrate upon a demand for a clean, ef-
ficient school system.
> Norman B. Dinger, whose three-year contract with the
~ Jocal district has been declared invalid by the court, can-
not be blamed for his effort to protect his own interests.
He accepted his contract in good faith and served the dis-
trict to the best of his ability, working tirelessly to meet the
standards asked by the board. He is one more innocent vic-
tim of a political strategy that failed. It is right that this
community should acknowledge his efforts and recognize
the difficulties under which he labored.
The writer has been assured that Mr. Tennyson will be
allowed to administer the affairs of Dallas Borough School
District without interference or pressure from the directors
as long as he maintains the efficiency and the standing of
directors and the town.
to the drama, it seems unfortunate that Harvey's Lake,
actors who are appealing primarily to people in search
the school. That, we believe, is a good policy and one which i
will bring credit to the school, the principal, the board of
WASHINGTON
LETTER
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By the time this is read, the presi-
dential campaign will be underway in
earnest. The Democrats will give
Franklin Delano Roosevelt their formal
_ blessing, and send him in search of a
second term in the White House. The
Republicans will have started their at-
tempt to return the country to the aegis
of the elephant with Landon and Knox.
There will be many issues in the
current campaign, and the bewildered
voter will be submitted to a vast
amount of oratory on questions of the
hour between now and November. One
of those issues, however, will
stressed over and over again, and it
may be the issue that will decide the
contest. That issue is, . “New Deal
Spending. :
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t The last two congresses—sitting
through four years—have broken all
previous records in spending. As a mat-
ter of fact, they have so far exceeded
any previous congresses in authorizing
appropriations, that comparison is
futile. With few exceptions—of which
the Bonus Bill, passed over a presiden-
tial veto, is the most important—these
appropriations have been authorized
at the express request of the Chief
Executive.
~ During the four years tenure of the
two congresses, appropriations have
totalled a little less than $32,500,000,-
000. This amounts to eight billion dol-
lars more than was appropriated by
all the congresses sitting from the
time of President Washington (1789)
to the time of President Wilson
(1913). In the interim between Wash-
ington and Wilson, the country became
involved in several wars (War of 1812,
Civil War, Spanish American War,
Mexican War) but the sum of $24.-
000,000,000 was sufficient to keep the
Federal government during the 124
years represented. According to the
United States News, the cost of all
wars fought in that period was less
than the cost of a single New Deal
measure—the $4,480,000,000 unem-
‘ployment relief act.
This is facts—and it is not advanced
here as an argument either for or
against the Roosevelt Administration.
But it will serve as a basis for one of
the most aggressive and bitter presi-
dential fights in our political history.
The attitude that will be taken to-
ward this spending both by denouncers
and defenders is obvious enough. The
President will hold, as he has held in
the past, that when he came into of-
fice the country faced a great crisis—
that it was necessary to unleash an
unprecedented number of Federal
dollars if the crisis were to be met. He
will argue that the measure of indus-
trial recovery so far gained is largely
the result of his policies, and that the
money paid out to help farmers, the
unemployed, the unemployables, and
the indigent has produced such fine
results that every dollar of it is justi-
fied. He will say that the course he
pursued was inevitable and unavoid-
able. He will hold that the policies he
has endorsed were the only ones which
could forestall economic’ bankruptcy.
The opposition will argue that the
vast volume of spending, reflected as
it is in rising taxes and Federal debt
which must create still more taxes in
the future, 1s holding back industry. It
will point out that the employment
problem is approximately as serious
today as it was three years ago. It will
say that the WPA, PWA, Resettlement
Administration, AAA, and other emer-
gency bureaus have wasted millions. It
will demand rigid Federal retrenchment
and a program looking to the earliest
possible balancing of the budget.
Two viewpoints represented are ir-
reconcilable—and that may not be
good for the country, but it is the stuff .
of which first-class political campaigns
are made. Get your radio in order, at-
tune your ear to astronomical statis-
tics—and see if you can survive the
oratory of the next five months ”
out developing mental hallucinatioyg_
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© WHY SHOULD PEORLE KNOW
TVE GOT SMALL FEET
Wherein Mr.
Matthews Ven-
Rives
tures Boldly To “Muscle In On
Mrs. Post’s Racket And Give The
Dames A Few Pointers” On Eti-
quette; Lively Notes About High
Matthews
Social Doings.
June is the month when the Eti-
quette Queen really comes into her
own. It 1s the one time of year when
harassed mothers of brides really need
Emily Post. The other eleven months
they may not be interested
Mrs. Post’s discourses on finger bowls
and oyster forks, her courageous stand
against toothpicks and gargling at din-
ner time, but this month thousands of
women are bound to be interested in
what she has to say about weddings.
So why shouldn’t I try to muscle in on
Mrs. Post’s racket, and give the dames
a few pointers myself?
In France for instance, they handle
the matter of invitations in what seems
to me a much more logical, though
perhaps more expensive, way than we
do. The guest to be bidden to the wed-
ding receives not one, but two invi-
tations. They come in a sort of book-
let, and if you know your engravers,
you have them done by Cartier, who i.
permitted by custom to sign, and thus
discreetly advertise his work with .
small “Cartier, Grav.” in the margin.
Here’s how its done.
Invite No. | reads: The Marquis de
Belleville has the honor to make you
party to the marriage of the Count de
Belleville, decorated with the Croix de
Guerre, his son, with Miss Amy Eder,
and prays you to assist at the nuptial
benediction which will be given Mon-
day, 8 April, 1929, at noon precisely,
in the Church of St. Honore d’Elyau
(Place Victor Hugo)—Montignies sur
Roc par Audregnies, Belgium.
Invite No. 2 reads: Mr. and Mrs.
Henry J. Eder have the honor to make
you party to the marriage of Miss Amy
Eder, their daughter, with the Count
de Belleville, decorated with the Croix
de Guerre, and pray you to assist at
the nuptial benediction, etc. etc. 1,
Square de I’Avenue du Bois.’
If you know the groom, or his family
then you know that Invite No. 1 was
meant for you. In my case, I knew the
bride, so Invite No. 2 was meant for
me. But Invite No. 1 told me several
things about the groom an
wedding invitation_vsuld not have re-
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Injunctions, injunctions, in Dallas are
the rage;
The taxpayers are the actors and
the court room is the stage. :
If actions do not suit you, and you
wish to have a fight
Just file the old injunction, maybe
someone will take fright.
The Taxpayers’ Association is truly in
a stew. >
Their actions are sufficient proof
how little they have to do
But interfere and agivate, and by their
efforts imply
That Dallas Schools belong to them
—all others to comply.
If in politics you are beaten, why just
take it with good grace
Just be a chronic’ grumbler, maybe
that will save your face
“And if your: neighbor teases, and his
in Mrs.
mere
vealed. I learned that his father was
the Marquis de Belleville, that, by im-
plication at least, his mother was not
living, and that the de Bellevilles come
from Belgium, are thus a cut above the
French titled folk infesting Paris in
that a Belgian title may still be said
to mean something whereas a French
title can have little more than a comic
opera significance in a republic now
turning to the Left.
Amy Eder de Belleville, by the way,
is a cousin of Arthur Guiterman, hu-
morous versifier whose jingles have
done much to Brighten the somber
majesty of the Saturday Evening Post
in recent years. Count de Belleville’s
first name is Eric, given him by his
English mother. Amy Eder, when I first
met her, spoke English very badly,
French fluently, and Spanish naturally.
I was amazed to learn she was an
American. At that time, she had never
been in this country, although she
carried an American passport, and had
a grandmother living on Riverside
Drive not far from Grant's Tomb. Ms.
Eder was a Colombian. They spent
most of their time, consequently, be-
tween Paris and Bogota.
Once, at the Pavillion Armenonville
in the Bois de Boulogne, we dined to-
gether at a table not far from where
Mrs. Harrison Williams, “the best
dressed woman in the world” was toy-
ing with a poulet roti. She was wear-
ing a part of her famous collection of
emeralds, and it was a sight as glori-
ous as a succession of Fifth Avenue
go lights on a rainy night. Wirs. Eder,
however, could only sneer. “In Bogo-
ta”, she explained, “only our half-
breed servants would wear them when
I was a little girl. We used to pick
them up off the ground and play ducks
and drakes with them. Alas! They tell
me a string of them now is worth a
fortune.” Then, sadly, Mrs. Eder
flashed her diamonds.
My favorite story about emeralds
concerns_tht samers. Williams and
Bestrice Lilly—Lady Peel ‘when she
wants to get her Armour-ial bearings.
It seems that Mrs. Williams was come
Injunctions Bloom In The Spring, Tra La -
ANONYMOUS
talking is a bore
Just file the old injunction, soon
your trouble will be o’er.
If the color of Lapp’s hat, or the fash-
ion of his coat
Has the same effect on you as red
flannel to a goat
Just let your feelings run away by
blowing off some steam
And file the old injunction; that’s
the way to vent your spleen.
If Doctor Swartz’s trousers, or the way
he combs his hair
Bothers your disposition, like an
angry grizzly bear
Or his general wearing apparel, your
esthetic sense inflames
Just file that old injunction, that’s
the latest Dallas game.
If Dairyman Jack Roberts, in the
morning makes a noise
plaining about all the trouble it was to
be the owner of a world famous col-
lection of these gems, and she ex-
plained at long length the difficulties
she had encountered in trying to find
a lapidary who understood the fine art
of scrubbing and cleaning them. She
had tried Tiffany, Cartier, a man in
Vienna, a man in Cairo, but nowhere
had she found anyone who could really
scrub and clean them properly. On
and on she went, until it appeared a
lot of people at her party were begin- |
ning to think she might be a scrubwes"
man, so, very patronizingly, she
turned to Lady Peel, and asked her
what she did when the Lilly emeralds
got dirty. “Oh,” replied Auntie Bee, “I
just throw them out the window, just
throw them out the window!”
Last week the foreign mails settled
another little matrimonial etiquette
problem which has been keeping me
awake nights ever since the newspap~
ers gave advance warning of the event.
Another example of French engraver’s
art conveyed the information that
“Mrs. Henry Symes Lehr desires to
announce her marriage to Lord Decies
in Paris, May 25th, 1936, 52, rue des
Saints Peres.”
It might have been done in so many
other ways. For instance a discreet
notice might have been carried along
with other high financial news in the
Times to this effect: “The Estate of
the late Jay Gould takes pleasure in
announcing that as of this date Jack
Beresford (Lord Decies), erstwhile hus-
band of the late Vivien Gould, will
henceforth bank with Drexel & Co.,
Philadelphia correspondent of Morgan
and Co.
Or the book trade might have been
notified in this fashion: “Lippincott,
Publishers, have the honor to an-
nounce the marriage of their Elizabeth.
Drexel Dahlgren Lehr, authoress of .
King Lehr and his Gilded Age,” to
John H. de la P. Beresford, Lord De-
cies, and are hoping that after their
honeymoon, Lady Decise will write
“How it Feels to be a Lady of Title
by a Lady of Tittle-Tattle.””
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Disturbs your peaceful slumber, and
awakes the girls and boys
Just take your troubles to the courts,
without a thought or care
And file that old injunction, you
will find some solace there.
If anything and everything, in general
you dislike
Regardless of the motive,
though you know it’s right
Just circulate petitions, and the public
try to sway,
And file that old injunction, you
may force the boys to play.
even
Now this poem has a moral, and one
that isn’t bad
By simply pointing out to you, the
type of fun we've had |
But to out-of-town people, this fun is =
most absurd, hs
And in the limbo of forgotten things
these injunctions will be interred