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THE DALLAS POST, DALLAS, PA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1936.
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THE POST'S CIVIC
4, Sanitary sewage disposal systems
5. A centralized police force.
between those that now exist.
8. Construction of more sidewalks.
Editor
1. A modern concrete highway leading from Dallas and connect- |
ing with the Sullivan Trail at Tunkhannock. |
2. A greater development of community consciousness among !
residents: of Dallas, Trucksville, Shavertown and Fernbrook.
3. A free library located in the Dallas Region.
6. A consolidated high school eventually, and better co-operation
7. Complete elimination of politics from local school affairs.
PROGRAM
for local towns.
WASHINGTON
PARADE
RAY JOHNSON
and
WALTER PIERCE
WASHINGTON, D. C.—Accord-
ing to Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, the
President on his present cruise te
South America will have to forego at
Jeast one of the hobbies he indulges
in while in the White House. “The
. President’s day usually comes to an
end between 11:30 and midnight,”
Mrs. Roosevelt said, “frequently he
clips stamps. Sometimes I find him
, sitting in bed surrounded with en-
velopes which the State Department
has sent him, cutting the stamps
from them, He says it is conducive
) to sleep. It is a rare thing when he
doesn’t say he slept very well.”
In response to a question, she put
the President’s philosophy in these
words:
“Each day must be lived. You
must accept what comes. Do what
you think is right or best. Decide
what should be done — and cease
worrying.”
And her own as follows:
“If 1 have a philosophy, it would
resolve itself into an effort not to
Rake anybody suffer unnecessar-
The distinction of being the only
swwoman chosen as 3 United States
delegate to the Pan-American peace
eonference, goes to Mrs. Elsie Mus-
. ser, of Salt Lake City, Utah. A
" graduate of Columbia, Mrs. Musser
speaks several languages including
. Spanish, fluently. A woman inter-
. preter, however, is not our idea of
a suitable go-between when in
search of latin amusements.
The 115,000 men and women of
Washington's thronging bureaucra-
cies are having one of the most pro-
digious attacks of mass jitters this
eity has seen in years. From desk
to desk Federal employees are whis-
pering about mergers and consoli-
dations of various departments,
causing spines to quiver with emo-
tion and fear—of loosing their jobs.
When an administration is re-
turned to power under normal cir-
cumstances, it is taken for granted
that every one will stay on, except
perhaps. a few obvious misfits, But
here is an administration which has
been re-elected with a budget to bal-
ance. and by so great a majority,
that it can practically dispense
with the normal consideration of
patronage.
The real perils of the situation
are of course, less numerous than
the rumors. The alarm may be con-
fined mostly to the emergency agen-
cies which, according to precedents,
should be due for a thorough
Stridly Personal. — Lloyd’s 8%
premium against the risk of a coro-
nation postponement may point to
the truth of unconfirmed but per-
gistent rumors, that King Edward
may, after all, marry Mrs. Simpson
before coronation time — involving
the risk of a popular rebuke and
abdication in favor of the next heir
in line, the Duke of York.
While we have learned to dis-
count ordinary rumors, long ex-
perience has taught us to respect
the opinion of the gambling ele-
ment, especially when it is backed
by real dollars and cents. A cor-
svspondent in London writes that
(sountry folk and even laborers in
| the vicinity of Fort Belvedere, the
| King’s eouniry seat, are offering
even money that the King will
marry Wallis Simpson within three
months,
Have You Looked? |
"Twas the night before Christmas,
when all through the house
Not a creature was stirring—not
even a mouse;
The stockings were hung by the
chimney with cars,
In hopes that St. Nicholas soon
would be there.
For several years hundreds of stockings that might
have been empty have been filled on Christmas Eve
because of the generosity of local people who have
responded nobly to The Post’s call for toys to be
distributed among needy children.
We hope none of those stockings will hang limp
this year. Only three weeks remain before Christ-
mas and there must be many, many more toys if we
are to remember all the families who need them.
If you haven't looked through your attic for gity
that might thrill some child’s otherwise sorrowful
Christmas wont you do it, this week-end? Then
telephone us at Dallas 300 and we'll make arrange-
ments to call for your contribution.
Let's make it our job to see that Santa Claus
doesn’t forget any children in our section! How-
ever you help, we'll remember your kindness.
A Balanced Budget
The first statement of the President as to future
policies dealt with the problem of the Federal deficit.
Mr. Roosevelt, in a brief announcement, said that ne
believed it would soon be possible to balance’ the
budget and that he intended to do so at the earliest
possible time.
Various commentators, some of them close to. the
White House, anticipate that the budget will be
balanced at the end of the 1937 fiscal year, which
starts next July.
It is doubtful if any act by the President and tne
Congress would do more to restore confidence in our |
government's financial structure, or to stimulate m- |
dustry and investors. Once the budget is balanced—
and kept balanced—we will at least know that the|
Federal debt will grow no greater. And, with a bau-|
anced budget, we can apply ourselves to the tre-'
EDITORIALS
mendous job of reducing the debt to a more normal
level. That, obviously, cannot be done so long as
| BROADWAY
ment. The responsibility to cooperate in the compidte
i restoration of employment and then to help stabilize
government spends more than it receives and charge: | jobs for the future rests alike upon industry and upon
the difference against the future.
It has been Mr. Roosevelt's opinion that during =
time of depression a country should spend far beyond
its receipts and, once a reasonable amount of recov-|
ery 1s achieved, reduce outgo and return to a business
basis. s
here when business improvement should make eme:-
gency spending unnecessary.
The President has apparently refused to listen tc
those who wou'd have the government keep on spend-
ing vast sums in excess of income until debt repudia-
tion or insolvency arrived. It is to be hoped that it
will be possible to balance the budget very soon.
Nothing Can Stop America
All indications point to 1937 as a year of still
further progress in the rise of the nation out of the
depression. Employment in manufacturing industries
has risen steadily in the ‘past year and 1s likely to
reach or surpass the 1929 levels in the near future—
possibly in the coming month.
General unemployment has fallen sharply and
many economists believe that the census of the un-
employed now being planned by the Department ot
Commerce will show two things: First, that those who
are without work and are seeking work number less
than 5,000,000; Second, that there is already an
actual shortage of skilled labor in many trades, in-
dustries and communities. On this latter point no
less an authority than Dr. Harold G. Moulton, head
of the Brookings Institution, has already predicted
that we shall have an actual shortage of labor within
the next five years if industrial recovers to the 1929
limit.
In other words, the emergency phases of recovery
are past. The myth that we need such panaces as
the 30-hour week, federal fixing of manufactuatg
wages and hours’and other arbitrary proposals eman-
ating largely: from professional labor leaders, has
been exploded.
The need of the moment is leadership—wise and
constructive leadership in business as well as govern-
Current conditions indicate that the time is |
| government.
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| Post-election Perspective
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We cannot refrain from calling attention to the
| refreshing spirit of co-operation which has spread
| across this country since the election. |
| The air is no longer filled with ‘cries about farmers |
| being ruined by imports of babassu nuts. Workmen |
| are no longer being told that they are about to entes |
| some dreadful form of servitude with a numbered |
| metal tag. And business men are no longer hearing |
| that the United States Treasury is about to go bustea,
[but instead are actually looking forward to making
some money within the next year.
If there is any reason for mentioning these things
it is so we may think of them again seme day when
our ears are being bombarded once more with the
same charges. :
Never Say Die!
All hail to Wyoming Valley Motor Club for neve:
giving up something it starts.
The club, which has played a leading part in
bringing about most of the modern construction mn
the vicinity of Dallas, again remembers this section
by including the by-pass, Route 115 at Hillside, and
Route 92, between Dallas and’ Tunkhannock, on its
1937 Road Improvement Program.
We should like to stress to those who have given
up hope of every seeing these improvements cor-
summated that it is not merely formality when trie |
motor club lists them. By winning a place on the
club’s program, the plans for those improvements
are assured of constantly being brought to the aw
tention of the State Highway Department and Lu-
zerne County's representatives at Harrisburg.
The motor club carries on, even when other civic
organizations quit, and those improvements will be
dropped from its list, we think. only when the pave-
ment 1s laid and automobiles are travelling over it.
4/ERE'S A POSER FOR Emily
H Post: on what side of the church
shall the ushers seat Al Smith at
the du Pont-Roosevelt wedding?
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Commissioning Son James a Lieu-
tenant Colonel of Marines has its esth-
etic advantages, considering how often
Son James appears in the Presidential
photograph, but adding another Colo-
nel Roosevelt to the list will only in-
crease the confusion. Why not make
RIVES
MATTHEWS
To Election Day, Armistice Day, |
and Thanksgiving Day this year was|
added another memorable date for
November, the twentieth, on which the!
U. S. Patent Office recognized the fig!
leaf as man’s first invention. Gypsy |
Rose Lee, Queen of Burlesque, should |
head a lobby in Washington to have
the strip tease named as woman's first
invention.
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One reason why the Soviets have
him General Roosevelt at the next
given the official okeh to Ambassador
New Year’s Honors? .
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negie gave the lady responsible for the
by Mesdames
Sidney
Howard F. Whitney, Frederick Church,
Joseph E. and Mrs. Marjorie Post
Close Hutton Davies is because the
Z. Mitchell,
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WEEKLY BOOST
Stephan Summerhill
...coach of Lehman High
School football team, for having
coached a team which, with smart
football and good sportsmanship,
became the Back Mountain cham-
pions.
John Bull may now come out of
that head-bowed-in-shame attitude.
The Duke of Norfolk, “the most eligi-
ble bachelor of the empire, next to the
King himself,” is going to do the Right
Things, don’t you know. And isn’t it
simply ripping that his finance is so
perfectly named for her job? It takes
the English to produce some one brave
enough to answer to The Honorable
Lavinia Strutt. rt
* * *
From Ireland we hear that Post-
master Farley kissed the Blarney Stone
to get eloquence. Doesn't Big Jim
know that actions speak louder than
words? Or is it true what they say
about Farley’s wanting to be the next
Governor of New York? If so, he’s
got that old murphy vote sewed up.
* * *
They now say that a very definite
sign will shortly appear in British
heavens which will mean that it’s all
over between the King and Mrs. Simp-
son. Can it be that Santa Claus plans
to stuff some royal legs into the Balti-
more lady’s silk stockings?
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That will be another blow to Wil-
liam Randolph Hearst, who’s done so
much for the working girl. If you
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think he’s done a lot to promote Mrs.
Simpson editorially, look what he’s
done for Marion Davies.
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If John L. Lewis becomes our next
President, you will hear a lot about
Cecil Carnes and Robert Speller, au-
thor and publisher of what amounts
to a scoop, the first book to come off
the presses about a man who now rates
more newspaper lineage than Lind-
bergh.
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At a cocktail party. attended by
sver two hundred people, Dale Car-
shindig a copy of his latest book,
“How To Make Friends and Influence
People.” 1 vass dere, Charlie.
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A woman who likes to be known as
the Countess Bronislava du Brissac 1s
currently lecturing along Park and
Fifth Avenues. Her topic is “Kings
Who Loved.” Her listeners are not re-
quired to sit on back stairs, nor hang
out dumb-waiter shafts. They squat
on gilt and brocades at three bucks an
earful, with a cup of tea thrown in
and dames like that.
* * *
The appearance of Life under the
wings of Time and Fortune convinces
me that while there is life there is
still hope for a good pictorial weekly,
and to those responsible for the Hearst
sensationalism of a section called
“Mrs. Roosevelt's Wild West” and for
the inaccurate pot shots of their so-
ciety lion hunter in France, I am
prompted to inquire: “Is life really
leica dat?”
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capitalists for a long time. I shouldn't
be at all surprised to hear that Doris
Duke Cromwell, or Countess Barbara
Hutton Mdivani von Haugwitz have
been picked to step into Miss Perkins’
pumps. 3
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On second thought, I suppose ‘pick-
ing Joseph E. and Marjorie Post Close
Hutton Davies for the Moscow job is
the President's way of throwing these
babes of economic royalism to the
wolves of communism, just to lighten
the sleigh. But now where’s he going
to send the du Ponts, Alice Long-
worth, Jim Reed, Bainbridge, et Al?
MAIL BOX
Dallas Post:
I want to thank you for the prize
subscription to The Post. Doubt if
you have a reader who enjoys it more
than I do. To read of the activities
of so many former friends and ac-
quaintances, is like a breath of air
from home. Often wish there might
be more Noxen news.
Even more I thank you for the op-
portunity given me, to voice my op-
position to “alcohol,” the greatest en-
emy of my own childhood.
I regret deeply the result of your
election. Some way I had always felt
that Dallas would ever stand for all
that was big and fine. My prayer is—
that God may give the youth strength
to overcome the temptation placed be-
fore them by both those who voted to
put the stamp of approval on liquor
and those who failed to vote on the
issue. They alike are responsible.
Sincerely,
Mary E. Bissell
Sayre, Pennsylvania,
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NEW YORK. N. Y.—A certain}
well known boxer writes that hef «
always reads a certain Broadway
column . . . before going into the
ring . . . and then he imagines that
his opponent is the man who writes |
it . . . nothing personal! . _. ‘At
the opening of Leslie Howard's
Hamlet a Broadway tight at-!
tempted to force his way in without
a ducat .. . I can quite understand
that he would not have done what
he did . . . had he been in his
right senses! ... Harry Richman’s
“Lady Peace” has been entered in
the Lindbergh Anniversary New
York-to-Paris race to be run next
May .. Harry insisting he'll never | .
fly with anybody again, will pilot
the big ship solo . .. Back stage at
the Winter Garden where the Zieg-
feld Follies (in the flesh) is current,
a cutie of the chorus tells me she
may sue a certain Woolworth heir |
for misrepresentation . .. she prob-
ably found him out . . . when she
went to hock the stuff! ... At Holly- |
wood where the nudes are apt to |
turn your head . . . I watch an |
absent-minded diner throw his |
handkerchief on the table . .. and }
blow his nose in his napkin... At
the Paradise beauty spot I'm told
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customer, crushing a rubber five
dollar check . .. The p. a. never re-
turned to make the elastic promise
good . . . what is more important
to the management is the fact that
they lost a good customer . . .
If, the p. a. happens to read this !
he'll be delighted to know that he
is again in the cashier’s good graces
. and that he will cash another
check for him—if it is good! . . .
The burlesque theatres on 42nd
Street are well patronized by dig-
nified looking gents from Wall and
Broad Streets ... an interlude for
worldlings who have been listening |
to the harsh click of tickers ... At
the swanky Versailles night spot, |
where I enter accompanied by a lens
lad ... a ringsider begs the camera-
man to snap his picture “I’m in the
about a press agent, who 1s a steady & i
Almanac de Gotha — hic — on th’
level I am — hic — how about it
fellers?” . . . Gypsy Rose , who
graduated from a strip tease act
in burleycue ... to a featured spot,
with Fanny Brice at the Winter
Garden’. . . is booked to do a turn
at the Beaux Arts Ball pageant .. .
ritzy society affair . . . Asked }
whether she would do her old act j
for the lorgnetted assemblage . . . i
the voluptuous artiste refused to
answer . . . but our leading society
gentlemen, are taking no chances
...and the rush for seats and binoc- )
ulars is on . . . At the Astor Cafe
for 4 o'clock tea with Horace Elmo,
the famous cartoonist . .. Thru the {
haze that hangs over the room and }
its occupants . . . I make out a face |
that seems to swim toward me...
a pretty face with a mop of blonde
hair . . . it belongs to Sally Mack. !
the swing singer ... whom Broad-
way-ites raved over, when she did |
her stuff with Ray Nichol’s orches- Ya
tra... The youngster is trying to {
crash Broadway and get in the big
money. “Moncy is not the answer
to life” advises Elmo in a fatherly
tone. “Maybe not” sallies back Sally
“but it is a very useful reply to doc- |
uments which commence with “Un- |
less you remit.”!! — “Wise beyond {
her years!” says I... as our winks
meet... The Broadway Parade.
A THOUGHT FOR THIS WEEK
The nakedness of the indigent
world may be clothed from the |
trimmings of the vain.
—Goldsmith