THE DALLAS POST, DALLAS, PA. FRIDAY, JULY 17,1936.
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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 Sidowaliy for the protection of pedestrians in
Kingston township and Dallas.
- 2. A free library located in the Dallas region.
8. Better and adequate street lighting in Trucksville, Shavertown,
Fernbrook and Dallas.
4. Sanitary sewage disposal system for Dallas.
5. Closer co-operatiom between Dabas borough and surrounding
townships.
6. Consolidated high schools and better co-operation between those
that now exist.
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.
A THOUGHT FOR THIS WEEK
But silence never shows itself to so great an advan-
age as when it is made the reply to calumny and defama-
son, provided that we: give no just occasion for them.
AppisoN—T he Tatler
( ? Opportunities Tn“A Changing Scene
; There is no need for any complicated economic chart to
prove to the Average Man that business is better. United
States is around the corner and the upswing is in progress
It is as irresistible as the downward trend was six years
ago. It is as evident here in Dallas as it is in other average
towns throughout the nation.
The story in last week’s Post on building activities in
this section was typical of the spontaneous upturn. This
very issue of The Post, four pages larger than usual because
of the unusual demand for advertising space, is another in-
dication of local improvement. Everywhere, an observer can
find fresh evidence that people have money to spend again.
It may not be a boom. True, analysts have promised a
new prosperity this year, but analysts have been wrong be-
fore. Rather, we suspect it is the slow, natural reaction to
six years of economic scarcity. It is a return to normalcy,
and it carries with it great, new opportunities for those who
are alert and awake to the changing scene.
* * *
Farm Prices Go Up
No one wants to capitalize on the misfortunes of others
but the Lord sent the drought so He probably can excuse
any profit Eastern farmers make as a result of higher
prices.
Usually the small-crop farmer hereabouts plays second
g! fiddle to the vast farms in the Middle West. The nation’s
granary between the Mississippi and the Rockies fixes the
prices and the local farmers have to tail along.
This year, with drought spreading a tragic wake across
the big farm States, Eastern farmers, for the first time in
many years, find a great demand for their comparatively
small crops.
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Americans Like To Play
The swarms of automobiles which have been jamming
local roads since the most recent heat wave made the cities
almost unbearable is another evidence of the typical Ameri-
can’s love for recreation—and the opportunities we miss in
failing to capitalize upon that growing need.
Public bathing beaches, swimming pools, tennis courts,
golf courses, playing fields of all kind have multiplied until
now few communities are so small, poor or dull-minded that
they do not provide opportunities for sport. The section sur-
rounding Dallas, endowed with many natural advantages,
has fallen behind in bidding for the homes and loyalty of
the people who are playing as they never played before.
Today, to attract new residents or summer vacationists,
a community must have parks and playgrounds, as once it
p¥ had to have roads, lights and water supply. People are learn-
3 ing to enjoy today what they formerly left until tomorrow.
The American is learning to live. He will live where he finds
recreational opportunities for himself and his family.
WASHINGTON
LETTER
On at least one point opponents of
the Roosevelt Administration are in
agreement with its principal strateg-
ist. When James H. Farley opened
the campaign for the Democrats at
Philadelphia he said that there was
but one big issue at stage—the new
Deal. Mr. Farley is unquestionably
right—and he might have gone a
step farther and said that the issue
is President Roosevelt. Mr. Roose-
velt is the New Deal—and his per-
sonality, his opinions and his record
are infinitely more important in this
campaign than is the Democratic
platform or the speeches of the
Chief’s lieutenants.
Speeches at the convention—as
at the Republican conclave a fort-
night before—followed a definite
pattern. The Keynote address of
Senator Barkley—termed by H. L.
Mencken the longest keynote speech
since the fall of the Roman Empire
—was well delivered, carefully
thought out, highly oratorical. Even
as Republican Keynoter Steiwer
could find nothing but evil in Demo-
crats and nothing but virtue in Re-
publicans, Keynoter Barkley found
that the Administrations of Hard-
ing, Coolidge and Hoover were 100
per cent bad and that the Adminis-
tration of Roosevelt was 100 per
cent good. A similar attitude was
expressed the next day when the
Senate Majority Leader, Robinson
of Arkansas, took over as perma-
nent chairman and delivered an ad-
dress praising Roosevelt to the skies
and tearing down his detractors, in-
cluding The Liberty League, Al
Smith and ex-president Hoover.
Most important item in Mr.
Roosevelt's speech was a clearing
up of the much talked about ques-
tion of whether, in view of the
Supreme Court’s abrogation of so
many of his major legislative acts,
he would go frankly on record in
favor of a new amendment to the
Constitution. He said, though he
"did not define precisely what kind
of an amendment he wanted. And
he said that he stood squarely by
the platform. x
It is inevitable that thete will be
much comparing of this platform
with that adopted by the Kepubli-
cans. Neither document can be
honestly called great. Neither is
unequivocal. Both leave plenty of
room for evasion, and both prefer
generalities to specific ‘declarations
of policy. Both are full of what acid-
ulous commentators on the political
scene call “weasel words.”
Big cleavage in the two platforms
occurs in the relief planks. The Re-
publicans favor return of relief to
the states—the Democrats defend
and continue to favor the adminis-
tration ‘of relief by the central gov-
ernment, as has been done the last
four years.
The Democratic platform also
praises the Administration’s farm
program, says it has saved agricul-
ture from ruin, promises a contin-
uance of the policy of retiring sub-
marginal land, encouraging co-op-
eratives, and ‘soil conservation.”
It pledges the Administration to
“vigorously and fearlessly” enforce
the anti-trust laws and to break
monopoly wherever it exists. Most
commentators regard this as a new
phase of the New Deal, in that such
a law as the NRA necessarily fos-
tered monopoly, required the tem-
porary abrogation of the anti-trust
laws.
In few planks are there any great
differences between the Republicans
and Democratic platforms. The
great difference is in the candidates
—in their backgrounds, opinions,
philosophies, and theories of what
government should do and be. It is
this difference that will determine
the election.
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‘city, how can you ever
GARDENING
By H. G. M., Mt. Greenwood
Each little boy, each little girl
‘A gardener should be,
For vegetables ‘raised at home
Should aid economy.
A space, a little land, a hoe—
These are the things you'll need
To see what miracles are worked
By planting of a seed.
Potatoes, peas, and cabbages
String beans, and spinach, too,
Taste better when you realize
That ‘twas for you they grew.
"Tis pleasant, yes, to plant a seed
And know that rain and heat
Will some day turn it into a
Tomato or a beet.
So raise a garden, boys and girls,
Upon some little plot;
It MAY come up and give you food
And, also, it may NOT!
THE LAMP IN
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THE WINDOW
Rives
Matthews
Mr. Matthews Reflects Up-
on The Fame Of Miss
Harding And Becomes Her
1201st Correspondent;
About Precocious Infants
In General.
I don’t think I shall burden the
postman, who has already trudged
to the door of Miss Faith Hope
Charity Harding with “1,200 letters
from every State in the Union,”
simply because at the age of four
months the Trucksville demoiselle
could gurgle ‘‘Hellopapamyeyekitty-
meowmeow.” But if I did write her
a fan letter, I think it would read as
follows: :
go gy
i Dear Miss Harding; you can keep
your photograph. ~ Youre just a
pink infant to me. And it would be
better for all concerned if you
could remain so just a little longer.
The mere fact that you can assail
the ear drums of your elders with
fairly significant sounds months be-
fore most infants attempt the perils
of speech does not endear you to
me. What a little nuisance you must
be!
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And what a pest and a plague
you must soon become when, in-
stead of harassing your now proud
parents with = “Hellopappamyeye-
kittymeowmeow,” you precociously
belabour your Daddy with such
questions as “What's a monocar-
pellary legume dehiscent along its
ventral suture?’ You and I know
there’s one chance in a hundred
the poor fellow will know it’s a
string bean.
Bowe
And so, Miss Harding, give a
thought to what youll do to his
ego. He's got just as much right to
owning an ego as you have. As a
dutiful daughter named Faith Hope
Charity, you should certainly give
this matter some thought in what
free moments your vast fan mail
permits you to give to the considera-
tion of your private life.
Zz owlw
Aye, there’s the rub! What sort
of a private life can you possibly
have, now that the nation’s press
has revoked your right to the title
of lady by violating that ancient
rubric to gentility which holds that
a lady’s name should appear in the
papers. just three times: when she
is born, when she is married, and
when she dies? And now that you
bask in the searing glare of publi-
hope to
sneak off into some quiet corner and
give in to the luxury of ordinary
monosyllables, or that even greater
luxury of no words at all?
$ ale
Of course you can retort that the
rest of us, particularly those of us
who are parents, are just jealous
because nature did not endow us
with those peculiar gifts of parent-
hood which brought about such
variations from the norm as your-
self and those other notable infants,
the Dionnes and dear old Granny
Shirley Temple who, base rumor
hath it; is already losing her teeth
and must wear false ones, poor old
crone. Hollywood certainly takes it
out of you, so beware, Miss Hard-
ing.
Remember, you have only fleet-
ing youth to sell, a priceless com-
modity. So when the Shylocks who
deal in freaks barter for your body,
and, make no mistake about it, your
soul, don’t sell out for a. mess of
postage stamps. 1'd advise a nice
fat endowment policy, to mature in
about” eight years, when you're a
withered old beldam rocking on a
porch of the Old Folks’ Home where
Shirley Temple, Jane Withers and
Baby LeRoy will be bragging, even
as you will, «about the number of
U. S. letter carriers to whom they
gave curvature of the spine.
go api ng
If you have time, you might also
devote a little of your attention to
what you may be ‘doing’ to your
parents’ social status. Of course you
aren't old enough yet, I hope, to
have children. So maybe you are
not aware of the bothers which be-
set people who have friends who
are devoting a major portion of
their time to fulfilling what the
preachers like to call * their race
duties. But I am.
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For the past several years, now,
one friend of mine after another
has gone biological on’ me.
saying biological. It’s easy for a girl
like you to say.) Now I have no
quarrel with biology, and I don’t
object to other people letting biolo-
gy get the better of them. Still, I
don’t think I should ever get really
excited by child-birth and write
stanzas chanting the glories of pink
bottoms and twiddling toes. I did
not see banners of glory flapping in
the wind when I counted forty-four
items belonging to my young
restraint than they, do their best to
(Try
nephew, John Rainey McGinley III,
the other day, but I think my sister
would claim she did.
But I do get terribly excited when
friends of mine insist on telling me
the very latest cute thing their
babies said or did. They all think
their babies are the cutest. And you
can take it from me, their friends
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who have shown more biological
avoid them; or, if this is impossible,
do their best ‘to keep the conver- |
sation away from obstetrics and
pediatrics.
ZTowl
You of course, Miss Harding,
have already been hailed as
Trucksville’s cutest. Think of the
local jealoyusies you have already
aroused. And your fame is spread-
ing like a prairie fire, withering the
souls of countless mothers and
fathers throughout the land who,
before they heard of you, used to
puff with pride at every gurgle and
coo, and vainly held the hand that
rocks a cradle might one day rock
the world.
g Ji w
Alas! Alack! and Alas! Tis a
bitter time for them, for now they
know their daughters may never be
First Ladies, may never measure up
to the standards set by the present
very loquacious one. They now
know beyordshe shadow of a doubt
that if ever Mrs. Roosevelt has a
successoress who can exceed her all
time record for verbiage, you Miss
Harding, will be that successoress.
And so, I remain, yours for less
Hellopapamyeyekittymeowmeow.
How may baseball be compared
to our Constitution ?
To provide for an orderly game,
baseball rules are made and an um-
pire provided to see that the game
1s played according to the rules. The
rules can be changed by the proper
authorities, but not by the umpire
or the players. And the umpire
does not decide whether the pitch-
ing, hitting and fielding are good
or bad. He simply decides whether
a ball is foul or fair, whether a
runner is safe or out. The rules, to-
gether with an umpire to interpret
them, keep the game from being a
“free-for-all.”
In our government “we the peo-
ple” make our Constitution the na-
tional rule book in which we state
what our representatives—Congress
and the President—may and may
not do. We provide further that the
Supreme Court shall be the chief
umpire to see that our rules are
obeyed. As in baseball, the rules—
our Constitution—can be changed
by the proper authority—namely,
the people, but not by Congress, the
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CONSTITUTIONAL
by MAX® BERNS
the Courts. And the
Court does not make laws nor en-
Executive or
force them, nor decide whether
they are good or bad. Like the base-
ball umpire the Supreme Court
merely decides upon the rules as
set down in our Constitution—in
our rule book.
Without an established set of
rules and without an umpire to see
that these rules. are obeyed, govern-
ment, like baseball, would become
a “free-for-all.”
(Next Week: “People Control Con-
gress’)
Copyright, 1936, by Bax Berns