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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 sidevralks.
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. Centralization of local police protection.
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
By
RAY JOHNSON
and
WALTER PIERCE
D. C.—When the
fathers of New
: that President
‘Roosevelt was planning a stop-
ver in their city, on the way to
is fishing trip, a far-away look
crept into their eyes—the same
kid that comes into the eyes of a
composer or poet when he feels
portents of a masterpiece
eady to be born.
The great fish game may be
aiting for him in the Gulf, but
in New Orleans the Michael An-
: os of cooking were thumbing
their recipes in hopeful anticipa-
"tion. And why not? Whenever
Presidents of the United States
have visited the Crescent City in
the past, theykicked dietarydiscre-
tion out of the window and ate and
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drank (and not what came out of
‘the well, either) those delectable
‘tid-bits only New Orleans knows
‘how to prepare, or mix. And did the
: Eenilomen enjoy doing it? Just
Te
isten.
When William Howard Taft was
President-elect in 1907, he was
guest of honor at a dinner given
at the old ‘Grunewald Hotel. The
chef, having studied the famous
Taft contour, produced an eigh-
teen-course dinner that is still
months later he came back for
more—partaking of several twen-
ty and more course dinners (wine
and Sazarac included).
~~ When Calvin Coolidge was Pres.
ident, there came a steady stream
of stories on the personal culinary
. }ikings of the Vermont Yankee in
. ‘the White House. They were pic-
~ tured as running solely to pan-
‘cakes, sausages and other homely
~ foods. But when Mr. Coolidge stop-
ng in New Orleans shortly after
his second term expired, Jules
. Restaurant, supervised the first
‘Coolidge dinner there, and this is
~ what the ex-President tucked
away: ;
iy One Sazarac Cocktail—bayou
oysters a la Rockefeller — a fine
~ Chablis (vintage 1921)—Pompano
~~ Pommes Souffle — Bordeaux
(vintage 1916)—Eggs a la Cool-
~ idge, filled with pate de fois gras—
snails Bordelaise — Partridge —
Chateau Campdeville (vintage
1916) — hearts of artichokes —
cheese souffle — Veuve Cliquot
(vintage 1911)—and a cup of cof-
fee! After packing away these few
~~ “tid-bits” Mr. Coolidge auto-
0 groped the menu with a steady
and!
the noble experiment.
New Orleans chefs would have
created new and even more won-
derful dishes for F. D. R. had he
cMosen to spend more than three
hours in their city. The President
. is hailed there as the savior of fine
cooking, for his Administration’s
repeal of the Eighteenth Amend-
ment. ; :
French chefs claim that great
cooking died during prohibition,
(but apparently not in New Or-
leans). Repeal brought. it back in
_style—for-fine-wines and fine food:
go hand in hand (we're merely
quoting the chefs). :
Did the President miss a bet?
We'll say he did!
~ Alciatore of the famous Antoine’s-
THE CAUSES OF TEACHERS
Any school district which chooses to tangle horns
with the new Teacher Tenure Bill may expect a
good fight on its hands.
First, it will have the opposition of the teachers
who are benefitted by the bill and who, having
gained their political independence, will preserve
it vigorously.
There will be, too, the public, which grew tired
long ago of the petty “horse-trading” which char-
acterizes the activities of many school boards, and
has, in the past, kept teachers in suspense every
time their contracts expired, lest they fall prey to
some director’s political whim.
And, most important of all, there will be the
Earle Administration, which will fight to the ditch
in behalf of a bill which was the climax of its pre-
sent legislative session and which will stand pro-
bably as one of the most constructive pieces of leg-
|islation produced during the present Governor's
term.
It seems scarcely possible that the directors of
Kingston Township School Board can expect to
justify legally their move to dismiss Supervising
Principal James Martin. As this is written no for-
mal charges have been brought against Mir. Martin
and the only explanation for his dismissal has been
a rather vague excuse concerning economy.
This section has had a liberal education in petty
school politics and so it is understandable why the
motives of the Kingston Township board should
be questioned. The “economy” explanation does
not hold water. It is ridiculous to suppose that the
township school district can be conducted without
a supervising principal. If there are definite charges
against Mir. Martin now is the time to make them,
and in the way provided by the Tenure Law.
If our sources of information are correct—and
we have no reason to doubt them yet—we must
believe that the situation in Kingston Township is
the result of one man’s ambitions to run the dis
trict, plus as smooth a bit of political swapping as
we have seen in some time.
Mr Martin's record and qualifications speak for
themselves but this is a matter bigger than Mr.
Martin or the Kingston Township School Board.
For five years school directors, sometimes obvi
ously unfitted for their jobs, have had the power
to fire and hire teachers without any regard to
EDITORIALS
qualifications, fairness, experience or public opin-
ion.
Now the worm has turned. As long as teachers
are qualified, competent, trained and moral they
have the right to vote for whom they please, buy
where they please, say what they please and other-
wise enjoy the independence usually granted to
citizens.
Mr Martin merely happens to be the man who
can establish once and for all that politics has no
place in school affairs, and that a new day has
awned for teachers and for the public school sys-
tem. ii
He can do that because he is in a strong position.
He has a splendid record. He has public opinion
with him. He is fighting a popular cause. Unless
we are very wrong, he is fighting a cause that is
assured of success.
To Mr. Martin we say, go to it!
ECONOMIC HIGHLIGHTS
Taxes may not be raised this year—but it will.
be almost a miracle if they are not. The unfav-
orable relation of Federal income to Federal out-
go is continuing, the Federal debt is rising, and
the budget is about as far .out of balance as ever.
Thus the high hopes that were held for a bal
anced or nearly balanced budget, a few months
ago, will not be fulfilled this fiscal year. Reason:
Treasury forecasts of revenue proved to be ex-
cessively optimistic. - The income tax fell well be-
low expectations as a money producer. And the
new corporation surplus tax was almost a com-
plete dud—actual ‘revenue from it was nowhere
near predictions. :
The President has ordered all department and
bureau heads to appraise their activities, cut costs
as far as possible. It is believed that substantial
savings will result from this. But the Federal gov-
ernment is still spending money for relief purposes
at depression levels — witness the President's re-
quest for a congressional appropriation of $1,500,
000,000 for this pdrpose. While the Administra
tion is being advised by some of its principal fig-
ures, such as Federal Reserve Board Chairman
Eccles, to retrench, it is being subjected to con-
stant pressure from states and municipalities for
more relief money. So far, this latter pressure
has been the most effective by far.
If new taxes come, as a result of this continued
. That is a very large subject, to which no guaran-
budgetary distortion, what form will they take?
teed answer can be given. But the trend of Con-
gressional and Administration thinking along this
line can be indicated with fair accuracy, there be-
ing many past precedents available.
It is inevitable that one group will throw its
weight behind a proposal to levy higher taxes on
corporations and on upper-bracket individual in-
comes. It is very possible that this group will
have its way to an extent—however, it is exceed-
ingly doubtful if any attempt will be made to
make up all the deficit by this means. The effect
on industry would be too destructive—and, as all
students know, expansion of industry is essential
to New Deal aims and measures, and “incidental
ly” to provide jobs at good wages.
Another group ‘will advocate ‘new taxes” of
one kind or another. But new taxes are always
a gamble so far as revenue is involved; further-
more, there are few things left to tax that are not |
heavily taxed already. So the chance of balanc-
ing the budget with “new taxes” may confidently
be. regarded as exceedingly remote.
A third group will advocate broadening of the
tax base—i. e., reaching persons in the lower in-
come groups who are not now touched by direct
Federal taxation. The bulk of the nation’s work-
ers, for example, earn well under $2,500 a year,
which is the Federal exemption for a “head of a
family.” Here is a vast, untapped field for income
tax exploitation. However, the political repercus-
sions that would follow any major inroads into
this field are potentially terrific — few Congress
men would like to vote “Aye” on a proposal that
would hit their constituents so hard. Consequent-
ly, broadening of the tax base will be accomplish-
ed slowly, timidly, carefully, if at all.
Upshot: It is a reasonable guess to say that, if
tax increases come, they will consist of a, mixed
program which will broaden ‘the tax base slightly,
somewhat increase taxes on industry and higher-
bracket incomes and, perhaps, install, in effect,
some new taxes. hi
It is, of course, possible to defer new taxes for
some time to come, even though the deficits con-
tinue, by further increasing the national debt. But
the accepted economists, even those within the Ad-
ministration, are opposing this because they fear
the inflationary effects that must inevitably result.
Of late there's been a tendency a-
mong our radio spielers to point a
finger of shame across the water, and
to accuse Brittania of being niggard-
ly by not keeping her former star
salesman on her payroll.
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Apparently the radio newscasters
believe Uncle Sammy's nephews and
nieces think England played a dirty
RIVES
MATT HEWS Poor Eid they say, and how
stancy and stability as is possible in
this unconstant and unstable world.
And so I think the radio spielers are
yodelling up the wrong canyon when
they try to enlist a little sympathy
for Edward and Wally on this side
of the water.
RE
mean of England to cut him off with-
out a shilling! Poor Edward, indeed.
I happen to know he wont go hun-
on the former Edward VIII by deny-
gry as long as he still gets his rent
And all that happened during
4 THOUGHT FOR
i THE WEEK
ing him, as Duke of Windsor, a nice
fat slice of British taxpayers’ money.
Or perhaps they think we Americans
feel that Edward's passion for Mis.
Simpson was not a good and suffi-
cient reason for firing him out as
chairman of the board of a firm that,
might well be called the British Com-
monwealth of Nations.
#* * *
Possibly they think a nation fed on
the pap that comes from Hollywood
is thrilled by the Graustark drama-
tics Edward and Wally have been
giving us during the last six months.
If they do, then they underestimate
the intelligence of the average Ameri-
can radio audience. For not all the
arts of Hollywood can disguise the
fact that Edward has bags beneath
his eyes, and that his forty-odd in-
amorata will soon need .to have her
face lifted and her hair touched up,
‘if she is to maintain any resemblance
to the carefully posed photographs
our newspepers are occasionally per-
mitted to publish.
a“ * * *
Not even Hollywood script artists
could do much to pretty up the facts
of Wally's, or, for that matter, Ed-
ward's, past. Since Will Hays’ white-
‘wings cleaned up the movies, it has
been difficult for film dramatists to
write scenarios for any of the Broad-
way stage ladies who derive their
eme from playing roles depicting lad-
g of what has been loosely defined
“easy virtue”, a slack phrase de-
bned to cover a multitude of sins,
hd often a multitude of men.
Divorce, and I think rightly so, is
still not generally regarded as a good
reference. To most of us, I believe
it still implies failure on the part of
those involved in facing the problems
of life. It may mean a failure to make
the best of things, or it may simply
mean a failure at the very start by
failing to pick the right partner.
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As failures, divorced people de-
serve our pity, but when, as some of
our playboys and heiresses do, they
shuttle back and forth to Reno, then
they are merely using our marriage
license clerks and divorce judges as
official gentlemen of the bed cham-
ber, whose sole function is to see that
the line forms as decorously as pos
sible on the right. Divorce among
the rich thus becomes legalized adul-
tery. At fashionable Fifth Avenue
weddings it is not uncommon to see
listed as among those present eight
or more parents of the young couple
mouthing their nuptial vows, and
there's a crying need for a sort of
Who's Whose if you want to know
your way around Newport and Palm
Beach.
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These people may be the backbone
of the tabloids and scandal sheets,
but, my friends, they're not the back-
bone of this nation by a long shot.
And for this we should be thankful.
Just imagine, if you can, what this
country would be like if every Tom,
Dick and Harry, every Mary, Sarah
and Jane could go to Reno as easily
as our so-called upper classes can,
I guess we'd have to pass a law make
ing cars the legal and inalienable pos:
session of husbands, and trailers of
women. Then divorce would be just
a simple matter of uncoupling car
from trailer, and leaving the tempor-
ary widow in the grass on some
through highway.
* * *
We'd become a migratory, shiftless,
homeless people, not the safe, steady,
responsible, homeloving, childbearing
burghers we are now, more or less
fixed in one place for the conveni-
ence of bill and tap collectors. Just
think of it, if you can, and then say
whether Hollywood wasn’t on the
side of the angels when the order
went through that gay divorcees
couldn’t be used in scenarios unless
in the end they had a twinge of hearts
and flowers and returned to their
first and only loves, skillets, and elec-
tric hearthstones!
x Xx Xx
Aside from the fact that the belat-
ed romance of Edward and Wally
seems almost as silly, and quite as pa-
thetic, as the occasional marriages
which take place among residents of
Old Folks’ Homes, it is contrary to
public policy in this, and in most
other, lands. Are we to hold up to
our young daughters the life story
of Wallis Simpson as an example?
Are we to inculcate in them an ad-
miration of those who play always
for the main chance, who use friends
and husbands merely as stepping
stones to greater wealth and fame?
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Or are we to reassert some of out
grandfathers’ beliefs, and profess a
still firm faith in the not-so-easy vir-
tues? I think most of us still believe
in and fervently desire as much con-
‘job of a King of England, the greater
money on a dwelling he owns on the
busiest corner in the world—Fifth
Avenue and Forty-Second Street,
Manhattan. Or he could go into
vaudeville, or hire out as a dinner
guest for years along Park Avenue,
the way some of his cousins do. There
are plenty of jobs he could fill, so
let’s not worry any more about “Poor
Edward.”
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And why is it mean of England
to say nix to appeals for an allowance
for Edward? After all, part of the
part it would seem, today, is in the
field of genetics, or, in the politer
language of court circles, it is his job
to provide an heir and otherwise sup-
plement his marital efforts with a
batch of young substitutes wha
will compete with Shirley Temple's
smile.
* * *
- This most important function of
an English king, Edward long refus-
ed to consider, and thus failed in his
job, no matter how good a travel
ling salesman he made. When, last
Fall, he finally announced a ' defi-
nite royal interest in biology, the
Baldwins and biologists of England
had only to give Mrs. Simpson one
ook.
®e & oo
Their off-thexecord answer was:
Professor Pitkin may be right. Life
may begin at forty. But we British
have a sure thng. Besides, we don't
want an Amerf;an woman, twice di-
vorced. Why, what's to keep her,
judging by pasi performances,. from
making goo-goo 2yes at Hitler? After
BROADWAY
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W. A. 8 ;
New. York, N. Y.—Spring in all its
glory has finally .come to the old
town . . . sunshine, Spring fever
and all... . ideal weather for day
dreaming . . . as I sit in my little
coop gazing out upon drab and
fader! Broadway facades, my
thoughts turn back to a little old
French steamer . . . the late “S.S.
Asji” . . . gone to a well deserved
res’ in Davy Jones’ locker . . . We
were sailing down the Atlantic—
Buach, Fifi and I ... : Cape Verdi
. +» . Funchal . . . Gibraltar . . ..
yy
how black the blue Mediterranean
is—around the Bay of Lyons . ..
Nice . .-. Monte Carlo . . . Athens
',.. Alexandria . .. the Holy Land
... No, the Black Sea wasn’t black
at all! . .. It’s so hard to keep
awake on a nice sunny spring day
. .. Yes, the cow jumped over the
moon! . . . Enough of that! . . .
This after all is a column about
Broadway, and the day is getting.
on . .. deadline soon . .. Irrele-
vantly, before I return to this-and-
that note about who’s who and
what’s what, I wish to express the
hope that if I (or you) ever cir-
cumnavigate this little old sphere
again . . . I (or you) will stop for
a week in Istanbul. . . and, at least
a year... two or three... in Nice
and Monte Carlo . . . and finally,
that it will take sixteen sergeant
de Ville to pull me away from my
table in front of Le Dome ... Now
let’s see... Elmo in the next cubby
hole is whistling “Did you ever see
a dream walking” . . . the fellow
must be a clairvoyant . . . Well,
1
here goes: Burlesque... . called by’
the theatrical profession “louse
opera” . .. is on the decline . . .
and all because the strip-tease was
carried beyond decent limits . . .
The corrosive influence of the bur-
leycue has been so insidious . . .
that even yellow sheets treat the
tease subject casually . . . When
Miss Eve Hershfield, whose
brother is tops in the journalistic
world, went to London for the Cor-
. onation, her first letters were filled |
with the descriptions of the pa-!
geant, the people and scenes en |
route ... Harry, a busy man, read |
about four of these voluminous
epistles and sent off this rather |
tart cable .. . “Never mind the de- |
scriptions. I get them in the pa-|
pers. Just say how you are and |
what you want.” . . . He got his |
reply within the hour. “Feeling |
fine. Cable five hundred.” . . .!
Heloise Martin, the Drake College
co-ed of transparent shower fame, :
is pulling them in at the Holly-:
wood . and got her hame ini
lights on the cancpy .. . Kay Fran-!
cis was introduced to absinthe for!
the first time at a swanky East!
Side night spot . . . she liked the:
taste as well as the glow that fol.
lowed . . . Yet innocently thought
it was a non-intoxicating swallow
. . « It was only after several re-
quests for the slow green libatjon:
at tea parties that her suspicions:
were aroused , . . raised eyebrows |
caused her to drop the.stuff like |
proverbial hot-cake . . . Dead- |
a now . Copy boy! O.K. hore]
3. +. Yes, spring fever is bereft
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He who hesitates is bossed.
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Love the quest; marriage the conquest;
divorce the inquest.
BR a
A lot of auto wrecks result from the
driver hugging the wrong curve.
re lf freemen
It used to be Father who gave the
bride away. Now it's Walter Winchell.
EE en HRP emis
The Lord Chief Justice of England
reecntly said that the greater part of his
judicial time was spent investigating col
lisions between propelled vehicles, each on A
its own side of the road, each sounding
all, he's hard to et too.
ite horn, and each stationary.
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