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THE DALLAS POST, DALLAS, PA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1937
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The DallasPost
Bstablished 1889
A LiBerAL, INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED EVERY
PriDAY MORNING AT THE DALLAS PosT PLANT, LEHMAN
AVENUE, DaLLAs, PA, By THE Darras Post, INC.
Howarp W. RisLeY
HoweeL E. REEs
General Manager
Managing Editor
THE POST'S CIVIC PROGRAM
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. )
4. Sanitary sewage disposal systems for local towns. : ~
5. A centralized police force.
6. A consolidated high school eventually, and better co-operation
between those that now exist.
7. Complete® elimination of politics from local school affairs.
8. Construction of more sidewalks.
WASHINGTON
PARADE
RAY JOHNSON
and
WALTER PIERCE
- WASHINGTON, D. C.——When a
‘Capitol policeman stopped him at
the steps to the Capitol with the
~ *Sorry, only members of Congress
are permitted to enter,” the nervy
little fellow threw out his chest
and replied with dignity:
3 “And who told you that I'm not
.a member of Congress?”
As the abashed policeman
stepped aside the little faker
: strode through the door as if the
« Capitol was his rightful property!
Only God and the State Depart-
ment can tell what make an
American Ambassador! (Vincent
Sheehan in Personal History).
WHAT IS DAVIS?.
ee a
ov? S.
When Joe Davis, our new Am-
bassador to Russia, announced to
the President and the world in
general that he was shipping two
thousand pints of preserved cream
to darkest Russia, it didn’t seem
to this column a matter 6f diplo-
matic life or death.
~The intriguing thing about the
‘whole affair is that statistics at
hand show that the land of the
Bolsheviks owns 42,300,000 cows
or one for every four persons as
compared to one for every five
Americans in our own land—also
that Mrs. Davis, the former Mar-
of Post products stocks.
~~ Did our esteemed diplomat
simply mean to get a bit of free
advertising for his wife’s canned
products ?—Perish the thought!
Help Wanted—With military
~ terseness, the United States Army
reports the nation’s second line of
defense in danger; and all because
of a helicon shortage.
The plight of our armed forces
leaked out when the Army In-
formation Service let it be known
that a band in the Canal Zone had
to have the said helicon plus a
man who could play it. But the
~ frantic Army Bureau informant
neglected to report what sort of
an instrument a helicon is. Ques-
tioning of expert horn-blowers
around Washington brought no
further information.
AX { vELicon?
HELICON?
In despair I turned to my old re-
liable Webster which informed me
‘that a helicon is a deep toned brass
| wind instrument with a large cir-
cular tube that may be carried
raround the body when marching.
“Also that it is a mountain range
in Greece. But you don’t play that!
A good job waits the man who
can play the helicon and wants to
see Panama, but he must furnish
‘his own helicon.
* According to reports going the
rounds of New Deal inner circles
Henry Morgenthau, Jr., Secretary
of the Treasury, has become the
President’s closest adviser. Which
may tend to verify the belief that
the second Roosevelt administra-
tion will lean more toward con-
g servatism than during its first
term,
J ee attains
jorie Post, owns a “few shares”
That Centralized Police Plan
The smooth ease with which three amateur bandits
escaped with thirty or forty dollars after robbing
Fred Woolbert’s service station at Trucksville last
week illustrates why The Post has agitated for a cen-
tralized police department in this section.
Under the present arrangement the chief duties
of the police are te guard intersections for school
children and enforce traffic regulations. That they
are handicapped frequently in the latter duty by
the petty interference of officials is merely another
argument against the present lack of system.
The policemen of this section are generally on
call twenty-four hours a day, which means only that
if anything happens in the night, when criminals
work, the policeman is just where other law-abiding
folk are . . . in bed. By the time he answers the
phone, dresses, buckles on his armament, gets the car
started and begins his chase any bandit deserving
of the title can be safely out of the town in any
one of a score of directions.
Criminals: make it their business to know such
things, and the present lack of organization exposes
the citizens of this section to the danger of hold-ups
and burglaries.
If, on the night of last week’s robbery, the attend-
ant at the station could have telephoned a central”
‘headquarters here, and that headquarters could have
broadcast to a roving patrol car in this section and
to those in Kingston and Wilkes-Barre the bandit
car might have been nailed before it traveled three
miles. :
The attendant had the license number of the car,
its description and a clear view of the men. He
saw the car whiz down the concrete highway toward
Luzerne. The capture depended from then on upon
the ability of the police agencies to marshal their
forces quickly enough to find the car in a small
area before it succeeded in losing itself in a large
area.
It is not the fault of the present policemen that
they were unable to cope with the situation. Rather
the responsibility lies with the municipalities them-
selves, who have been slow to realize that modern
crime must be fought with modern police methods.
The Post suggests that the officials of one of
the towns in this section assume the responsibility
| for inviting representatives of other local commun-
ities to a conference to discuss the possible costs of
a more centralized police force.
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About the most effective measure we've seen yet
to reduce automobile accidents in this country is the
present sit-down strike in the automobile industry.
EDITORIALS
Abolition ef Fee System
Of the various measures proposed by taxpayers
organizations to reduce state ard local expenses
the most warmly argued is the plan to abolish the
fee system in the eollection of taxes and to cemtra-
lize those duties in the hands of salaried county
treasurers; except in cities.
Under that plan tax collectors’ offices, as we
know them in this section, would be abolished and
county treasurers would be authorized to designate
banks as deputy collectors or, in political sub-divi-
sions where the services of banks might not be a-
vailable, deputies or clerks would be required to sit
two days prior to the time when penclties would be-
come effective.
Pennsylvania is one of less than a dozen states,
of which New England comprises the largest group,
that still clings to the old methcd of collection of
taxes on the fee basis.
The Pennsylvania Economy League, which. ad-
vocates a change to the unit system, estimates the
abolition of the present system would bring about
a saving of $1,700,000 in the State. Whereas the
cost of tax collection, outside of cities, is at present
2.6 per cent, it can be reduced to .98 per cent un-
der the unit system, they say.
There are 2,700 local tax collectors paid by fees
now, some receiving as high as $25,000 a year for
very little work. They are organized and, of course,
will use every effort to save their perquisites.
In some towns in which the administration of the
fee system is highly efficient, fears have been express-
ed that the proposed law may be detrimental to them.
Careful study of this phase of the situation has fail-
ed to yield conviction that the objections from those
units are wholly correct and, on the basis of the
greatest good to the greatest number, the propon-
ents of the Forum's bill are in the stronger position.
Samuel Bulford, 90
Our editorial congratulations are due Samuel Bul-
ford, who became ninety years of age last week.
Mr. Bulford is typical of the generation which
developed Dallas and its neighborhood from a back
woods lumbering area into a pleasant, busy, pro-
gressive section. He holds the respect of gvery re-
sident of this region because he represents all those
qualities of character, leadership and vision which
marked local pioneers.
It is fine to know that most of his children have
chosen to live in this terrtory and inherit their fa-
ther's numerous virtues.
The Dairymen’s League
A local organization which breaks into the news
too infrequently is the Dairymen‘s League, a self-
sustaining co-operative organization which deserves
the attention of people who are interested im the
current talk of co-operatives.
There are, in agriculture, two distinct kinds of
co-operatives.
One group is based on proven business principles,
follows business methods, and is entirely self-sustain-
ing.
The other group seeks to exist through “doles”
of one kind or another. It continually seeks subsidies
and special favors from government.
Needless to say, co-operatives belonging to the |
first group have been the successful and progressive |
ones. They are found in almost every agricultural |
field. The Dairymen's League provides an excellent |
example of a businesslike co-operative.
Why Be A Sucker? |
Now, as never beforey with boom predicted, it is
essential that the small investor and the public fully |
appreciate dangers of blind speculation. Lessons |
of the late twenties must not be forgotten. An orgy |
of speculation and artificial prosperity is inevitably |
followed by a period of deflation and severe de- |
pression. Everyone suffers, particul:rly the average |
individual with limited resources. :
It is easy to blame Wall Street and the stock ex- |
change, which simply serves-as a market place for |
the people’s securities. Without such centers, the |
wheels of industry would soon be motionless for]
lack of trading places for securities.
Depressions cannot be legislated out of existence.
The public as a whole and individually must heed
the lessons of the past if severe future depressions
are to be avoided. True, certain fact-finding and
regulatory legislation has been of great benefit to
the investing public. But as President Gay of the
New York Stock Exchange recently pointed out, there
are no laws to prevent buyers from speculating on a
hit or miss basis, if they wish to, in the face of ex-
pert warnings against it.
During a period when nearly all thought has been
turned toward attaining complete economic secur- |
ity through Washington, it must not be forgotten that |
in the last analysis it is the initiative and common
sense of the individual upon which the welfare of the
nation finally depends.
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Toby's Creek isn‘t a particularly lovely stream but |
we look at it with new respect after reading ~bont |
the floods in the Middle West. At least it stays in its
bed and isn’t running around the streets ot #1 hours
of the night.
“Speaking of Coronado,” writes
one of the most interesting corres-
pondents I have in California, “I sup-
pose you have heard the tale of a
dinner party there several weeks ago
when Mrs. Simpson’s first husband
and some of her old acquaintances
were discussing what were then only
rumors. They put their heads and
their financial resources together, and
decided to have a telephone chat with
the lady in London. They got a good
RIVES
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MATTHEWS
litely refrained from saying, ;
necessary), ‘He is a dissipated young
nitwit. His face shows just that and
nothing else. And I only wish the]
Duke of York were the heir. He is a
decent, upright young man.” And now |
here is the ‘Prince of Wales” a dis- |
credited exile—and the Duke of York |
on the throne! And, as I always be-|
lieved, the precious popularity. turns
and quick connection, and the late
ever could have in
out to be very little more than news-
paper propaganda. How very calmly |
THIS WEEK’S TAXOGRAM
The governmental debt in the
mately be met by taxation, was,
on January 1, $418.08 for every
man, woman and child in the
~ United States—a total of nearly
$54,000,000, of which $34,405,-
163,874b1 was Federal and the
; rest state and local.
United States, which must ulti-..
husband said, “What's all this I hear
about you?” To which she replied,
-ccording to the current tale, “Watch
ay smoke, Big Boy! I'm going
places!”
“Of course, all those people are
having a big time over her, because
the reputation she left behind was
that of a ruthless climber, who kick-
-d down her ladders with precise regu-
larity, so naturally she was not popu-
lar in Coronado.
“l can not take the present situ-
ation quite so calmly as most people
do,” observes my sharp-witted friend,
“Because I feel too definitely the im-
portance to civilization of Great Brit-
ain’s holding its dominant position,
and I see Mrs. Simpson as a real men-
ace to its stability. In other words,
this is only the first chapter, as I see
1t.
“How long is the abdicated king
going to be contented in his relative
obscurity? And, for that matter, how
long is she going to be contented as
the wife of the first gentleman of
Great Britain? She is evidently ‘a
flame of ambition, one of the kd
‘that keeps on reaching out for more.
When he gets restless, and she has to
find him a new toy, and when the
prestige of her new position begins
to fade, then what?
“Let King George and his advisers
look out. The first misstep he, or
they, make, she will be ready to
pounce on, and turn to her own ad-
vantage. She will be intriguing, like
and old-time Roman Empress (or By-
zantine or Chinese, for that matter) to
get her man back on the throne. And,
in the upset state of world affairs, an
adroit, manoeuvering woman like that
| can accomplish
just as much as she
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the good old
bloody Medicean days, even if she
does not have to use cold poison. I
do not know whether you have fol-
lowed the Muench case in St. Louis,
and I know that Mitzi is now safely
behind the bars. That, it seems to
me, is the main difference between the
two women: one is behind the bars
and the other isn’t. But if I were in
‘“‘GOING
King George's cabinet, I'd keep a
sharp eye on the one who isn’t be-
hind bars.
“The diverting thing to me about
the whole affair is to find the course
of history dovetailing with my wishes.
Ever since the Prince of Wales grew
up, | have been very much bored with
the extravagent popularity attributed
to him. I have always said, (or po-
Up”?
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the British public took to boulevers- |
ement! A few expressions of hurt af-| —
fection, and disappointed confidence,
but so few! It was really pathetic! |
“What has not come out yet, and |
what I am waiting for is the explana-|
tion of just why all the publicity at|
that particular moment. Nothing es- |
pecially new had happened, nothing
that was not well known to the initia- |
ted already. But all of a sudden,
that concerted. consistent blast of
publicity.
“My belief is that some enemy—
which, I can not say—of the British
Empire wanted to throw a monkey
wrench into the Imperial wheels, and
thought the best way to make the
trouble was to drive a wedge between
the King and his people, and very
adroitly made use of the chance the
King was foolishly giving to hit the
British public in a tender spot—their
reverence for the Royal Family. And
it all worked out according to sched-
ule, and undoubtedly helped to weak-
en the Imperial position in the eyes
of the world. What further results
may follow, who can tell? ;
“Or what use the intriguing power
will make of what it has already ac-
complished. But what has happened,
I say again, is only the first chapter.
And just when the Empire most needs
a united front, here is potential divis-
ion right at the very top, in the Royal
Family itself. It has all been very
decently ywvered up — but what
smoldering resentments are left be-
hind, and what will they produce in
the long run?
“It is undoubtedly the most dra-
matic event since the war, and its
results may be just as great on the
Empire itself.”
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W. A. S.
NEW YORK, N. Y. — New
Yorkers have been ridiculed for °
years as the people who know less
about their town than anyone else
. .. A second cousin who makes
his home in Kunkakink . .. a little
town, three miles from nowhere,
took me in tow, when I suggested
a Chinese meal in Chinatown . . .
and actually showed me spots
around Mott Street I never knew
existed . . . If you want oriental
food fit for epicures, keep away
from the red-lacquered and gilded
palaces . . . try one of the little
places that looks like most Ameri-
can beaneries, and which caters
mostly to Chinese . . . You'll be
pleasantly surprised! ...I had my
first taste of hen-yen-gay-ding-
chicken, almonds, bamboo sprouts
and water chestnuts . .. concocted
as only Nanking chefs can ...and
a dish fit for the gods!
Back on Broadway I run in on
the party being given in honor of
Jack Waldron . . . Jerry Cooper,
without being prepared, sings
song after song . . . and brings
down the house .'. . Back to my
desk which is loaded down with
letters from Broadwayites so-
journing in Miami . .. they all read
alike . .. This is a great town! .,.
swimming inthe a. m! . .. golf in
the afternoon! ... and the gaming -
tables after supper! ... Good old
Heywood Broun is fearful lest the
World’s Fair in 1939 be too high
hat, and go blooey . . . It seems
to Heywood that the coming affair
needs another Sally Rand ... M. ;
Firmin Guego, the very efficient
and obliging secretary of the
French Chamber of Commerce in
this country, tells me the Paris
Worlds Fair which opens in May
will be the best ever , . . Personally
I believe Grover Whalen, the Fair
chairman, could do worse than to
send a delegation to study the
LETS ASK
MR. ale!
we WORLDS FAIR
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French Exposition next spring...
Jim Cagney visits backstage at
the Winter Garden “Yes, I once
worked here,” says Jimmy, “as a
chorus boy” . . . Coming home
early one morning : . . it was at
9 a. m. to be exact... I spy Mary.
Lewis, famous opera star, and
George Brown, the athlete, walk-
ing briskly (and professionally)
around the old reservoir in Central
Park . .. The lovely Mary walks
twice around—four miles—every. ©
morning! . . . Who wouldn’t walk’
four miles to chat with beautiful’
Mary Lewis? Lucky George! . . ,.
The Broadway Parade, + ~
A THOUGHT FOR THIS
WEEK
An ardent throng, we have wan~-
dered long,
We have searched the centuries.
through,
In flaming pride, we have fought:
and died,
To keep its memory true.
* We fight and die, but our hopes-
beat high,
In spite of the toil and tears,.
For we catch the gleam of our
vanished dream
Down the path of Untrod Years.
Wilma Kate McFarland
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