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The Dallas Post
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5. A centralized police force.
between those that now exist
8. Construction of more sidev-alks.
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. Centralization of local police protection.
4. Sanitary sewage disposal systems for local towns.
6. A consolidated high school eventually, and better co-operation
7. Complete elimination of politics from local school affairs.
WASHINGTON
PARADE
By
RAY JOMNSON
© and :
WALTER PIERCE
Washington, D. C.—The rumor
30st Congress adjourned when the
President went fishing might be
<alled officially an inaccuracy, but
~ unofficially just about true. .
When Mr. Roosevelt returned,
he learned that the most important
~ thing that had happened during his
absence was Representative
McReynolds’ (Tenn.) capture of a
40 pound bass. If is also true that
the several foreign diplomats
toasted the health of King George
nd that a few Congressmen tried
to balance the budget in the third
race at Pimlico and failed miser-
ably. The coronation, by the way,
hardly caused a ripple of interest
here—at least not in official circles,
It seemed to have been accepted
‘somewhat as the British counter-
~ part of some local state fair. Few
officials have ever met the new
~ King, but those who have say that
he is a likable chap somewhat like
his father and that while he tasn’t
~ the personality of his brother
Edward he will eventually become
as popular with his own people
‘as was the late King. . 2
~ Until the days of dictatorships,
‘8 government wanting to indicate
to another its anger, recalled -its
ambassador. All this has been
changed now. Diplomats remain
but Bewspaper correspondents ar¢
recalled. Il Duce ordered his news-
hawks home from London and
banned British publications from
sunny Italy. If this sort of thing
continues, newspapers in demo-
cratic countries may have to form
‘an espionage system in order to
et the low down on deings in the
ands of Mussolinis and Hitlers.
~ Old timers and lobbyists may
not believe this, but it actually
~ happened. The House of Repre-
~ pentatives has declined to pass a
ension bill! The Congressional
ecord shows that the millenium
refused to consider a bill appropri-
ating $5,000,000 a year extra for
Spanish-American War veterans.
~ __When Congressmen decline to
wote pension bills for organized
voters you may rest assured that
- the appropriators have taken seri-
ously the President’s warning that
a budget must be balanced.
As the zero hour on the Supreme
Court issue approaches, the Capitol
iz again whispering about the
possibility of -a Senate tie. In that
event that sphinx of sphinxes, Jack
~ Garner, will be in the delicate
position of having to. cast the
deciding vote. The Vice-President,
who hag been a tower of stretigth
to the White House on critical
legislative occasions, has aroused
the liveliest curiosity as to how he
vill perform in the ticklish emer-
- gency that may soon confront him.
Garner, close associates hint, has
not shown much enthusiasm for
the President’s Court plan.
Unofficial military observers
back from battle torn Spain, report
that no effective new weapons have
been developed since the World
have been made in improving the
old ones, especially anti-aircraft
weapons. They estimate that about
90 per cent of all airplanes brought
dowu by both sides were shot down
by anti-aircraft guns. The most
effective planes are the light
Russian bombers which carry four
machine guns and are copies of
American Army machines. The
Italians. and Germans actually
engaged on the various fronts,
‘are reported getting tired of the
mess and have been seen to openly
make an about face when con-
~ fronted with the emergency of
. hand to “encounter with
Loyalists, Jt is apparent that a poll
: of foreign troops Sugaged in the
i h stew would sho
Iming
5 an over-
iwéturning to their own more or less
|peacefyl homes,
WE WANT THE BY-PASS
If there is any hope for the construction of the
Luzene by-pass it lies in the discovery that a good
many people get sore as soon as you suggest that the
plans aren't moving along quite as smoothly as they
might. :
We have been ducking brickbats nimbly * for
the last two weeks, since we published a front-page
story cahrging that the by-pass crusade had plunk-
ed smack against politics aud public disinterest and
fixing the odds 100-to-1 against any construction
along the by-pass route this year.
Several of the men who have been working for
the plan. They felt it struck a note too pessimistic.
On this paper we are not concerned with pessi-
misism or optimism. We try to report the facts, and
let the readers decide whether they justify joy ‘or
gloom. The facts happen to be that through no fault
of the men who are working unselfishly for the by-
pass it has struck a blank wall—and it will take ore
than newspaper optimism to blast through that bar-
rier. It will, in truth, take a pretty potent explosive.
For soe months we have been assuming our
readers that we could see progress on the plans, that
there was strong public support behind the leaders,
that the by-pass seemed a certainty. When we un-
covered a tiny ray of hope we blew it up to a three-
column headline, afire with optimism, and we just-
ified our exaggeration by the belief that we were
helping a worthy project along. To have continued
that course would have made us guilty of failure to
keep our readers accurately informed.
Our readers pay for accurate news, not civic
propaganda, and although we want a by-pass at Lu-
zerne and will do anything in our power to get it
we cannot pretend that we see much hope for its
construction now unless there is a tremendous surge
of public opinion in favor of it.
‘Our only reason for running thaat story was
that we felt our readers had a right to a clear anal
ysis of the situaton. We still don't believe the by-
pass! is, going to be paved this year. We're still
anxious to do anything we can to bring the plans to
success. There should be no question on that point.
But we can’t manufacture public interest in capsules
and force it down our readers’ throats.
There hasnt been much disagreement with the
the by-pass felt that our story deadened interest in
EDITORIALS
causes we cited as being responsible for the delay on
the plans. The Sunday Independent carried a
lengthy article, defending the Democratic leaders,
and charging that the blame must be shared by the
County Commissioners, who have not appropriated
money for damages. It was our impression that such
an appropriation had been made several years ago.
It may be ‘true that the money was spent for some-
thing else. However, on the basis of the Indepen-
dent’s sound reasoning, it would be wise for the
Rotarians to secure assurance from the County
‘that the money will be forthcoming if the State in-
dicates its readiness to pave the by-pass. That, at
least, would make a good story.
We have said merely that we think there will
be no by-pass, this year. We hope we are wrong.
We'll help the committee in any way to prove that
we're wrong, because the dominant thought in all
this hullabaloo is that we want the by-pass.
WAGES IN THE RETAIL FIELD
There has been criticism of wages paid workers
by chain stores and limited price variety stores
compared to wages paid by other types of retailers,
such as department stores and specialty shops.
Answering such criticisms in a letter appearing
in the publication, Retailing, Dr. Paul H. Nystrom,
Professor of Marketing at the Columbia University,
brings out some points in this controversy that are
often overlooked or ignored.
Chain stores and variety stores require little
skilled help. Merchandise carried varies little from
year to year, being staple in character, and prices
and policies are established and known to the buy-
er. What these stores do provide, in an unusual
measure, is an excellent training ground for young
people with high school education who are not pre-
pared for selling jobs requiring skill or special
knowledge. During their training ,they are paid as
well and perhaps better than they would be in any
other field. And the record shows that a high pro-
portion of them find this training the key that un-
locks opportunities for them in department stores
or specialty shops where experience is essential.
Others go on to advancement within the chain and
variety stores themselves.
Another point that tends to throw wage com-
parisons out of line is that chain store statistics in
most instances include only the wage paid tore em-
ployes, excluding managers and assistant managers.
Department store data, on the other hand, includes
the wages of high salaried department heads, buyers
and others, as well as clerks.
It is probably true that in some instances em-
ployes of all kinds of stores are underpaid. But it is
not true, according to the best available data, that
chain and variety stores pay less than other kinds of
stores for the same kind of work. It is not fair to
compare the wages paid a young, untrained begin-
ner in a store where no advanced selling technique
is necessary, and those paid a mature, experienced
salesman in a shop where sophisticated sales methods
are vital.
MORE JOBS FOR GIRL GRADS
Our edition dedicated to women was not quite
complete without some recognition of the problems
of those young ladies who will within a few days
end their formal education and accept their full
responsibilities in the world—the feminine. portion
of all the Classes of 1937.
For these girl graduates there is reason for op-
timism in the editorial which appeared in the last
issue of "Miss Recordia”, the monthly publicaton
of our own College Misericordia. It reports bright
ly that a survey conducted recently in 215 schools
proves that employment prospects for this year's
graduates are the best in seven years.
The greatest opportunities, says Miss Recordia,
will be in the fields of engineering, business ad-
ministration, teaching and general business, while
the vocations of law, journalism and investment
banking, if statistics hold true, point out the rock-
iest roads to success.
The outstanding qualifications being sought
are Scholarship, personality, campus activity and
popularity, character, leadership and general abil-
ity. Bright young ladies may accept as a moral
victory the fact that fifty-one and four tenths per
cent of the prospective employers placed scholar-
ship first on the list.
“The seniors who entered college in one of
the darkest years of the late, lamented economic
upheaval,” says Miss Recordia, “have the satisfac
tion of beginning their careers with much rosier
vistas spread before them”. To which we add
Best of Luck! :
* You have only to pick up almost.
any English newspaper or:magazine
to see for yourself how little English
admen know about the so-called art
of advértising. And you've only to
study the present pending case of
Edward Windsor vs. (as the saying
goes) His Majestyy’s British Govern-
ment to learn how little Englishmen
really know about the so-called art
of public relations.
‘ Before the coronation, we were
RIVES
MATTHEWS
coronation. I would even have gone
so far as to permit a state wedding
in England, with George and Mary
and Elizabeth, and all their kin,
beaming for photographers. I'd have
shown the world a united royal fam-
ily, and an England that held no
grudge against the man who was
made to appear having said pfui on
crowns and gilded coaches.
in
I'd have staged it all with an eye
told, the Duke of Windsor and the
to jerking a tear from the gallery.
arrived last week when the House
War, but that tremendous strides’
majority in favor of
Pride of Baltimore would do their
level best to keép off the front pages
so that George VI, his queen and
daughters might make the most of
the show the Archbishop of Canter-
bury staged in Westminster Abbey.
Nevertheless, the Pride of Balti-
more did manage, a few days before
Britain's mighty parade of coronets
and bandy legs tricked out in silk, to
distract the public eye by permitting
‘her dressmaker to make public a list
of dresses she had ordered for her
trousseau.
One of them, I think, will go down
in history. Certainly it was selected
with a canny, American eye for ad-
vertising. You probably remember
the one I mean, the white dinner
frock, with a red satin lobster stitch-
ed upon it.
I really feel sorry for all those girls
who worked night and day for weeks
on the queen’s embroidered corona-
tion train. Who will remember it?
And who won't remember the Pride
of Baltimore wearing a huge red lob-
ster where a heart and a maternal
bosom should be?
On June 3rd, since Mr. Baldwin
would not let it happen any sooner,
the walls of the historical Chateau de
Cande will hear a voice say: “Wake
up, darling, this is our wedding day.”
No transo.canic radio hook-up
will carry that ft-used, well-worn
phrase to the gaping ears of the
world, but for many years, some fools
will still wax sentimental over a
gramaphone record which is probably
entitled by now: “The Woman I
Love.”
' These are the people who like to
believe in fairy stories, who desper-
ately want to believe the fairy story
the world’s biggest fairy ever handed
them when he told the world by
radio that the lobster decorated bosom
of the woman he loved was a more
comfortable spot for his head to rest
than beneath the bejewelled weigh
of a crown.
Whereupon all those who believe
in fairies promptly were thrilled to
the core, even though it was some ef-
fort for them to adjust themselves to
an ivory-towered princess whose
locks were not golden, and whose
bedroom, to judge by her record, had
no locks at all. Professor Pitkin, of
course, was thrilled, and so were his
publishers. “Life Begins At Forty”
was again on the lips of the nation,
and Dale Carnegie doubtless search-
ed through his files to see whether
or not the Pride of Baltimore had
ever taken his course in “How To
Win Friends And Influence People.”
Inasmuch as most people prefer
fairy stories to the sad realities of a
After All He Just PAYS The Gasoline Tax!
weak and colorless king and the bit-
ter facts of an adamantine Tory gov-
ernment, it seems to me the publicity
boys in London gave Mr. Baldwin a
bum steer ‘several months ago :and
that, as a result, they've helped build
up a little fantasy in the minds of
the public that will be hard to de-
story, and that may, one day, prove
extremely dangerous
Had I been England’s king-maker,
I would have arranged for a decree
absolute within three months, as was
possible. I'd have gotten Eddy and
Wally spliced right off, and provided
with a few cases of Scotch in some
villa on the Riviera weeks before the
I'd have made England appear noble
and forgiving, not sullen and annoy-
ed, and spoiled child, as she appears
now. I'd have given Wally a lobster
set with the rubies of India, and a
string of titles longer than her list of
husbands, I'd smothered her with
faint praise and almost as many yards
of ribbon as are needed to keep
Queen Mary within bounds. I'd have
been generous and tolerant, and ter-
ribly, terribly polite to the Pride of
Baltimore, so that no one could say
I was a snob because she ‘came from
a boarding house originally. I might
even have persuaded the present roy-
al holder of the title of Governor of
the Isle of Man to relinquish it so
that I could give it to Wally.
Making Wally Governess of the
Isle of Man would be a gesture and
a jest worthy of a mighty empire.
The way things are going now, the
world is liable to take the lady far
too seriously. In London they should
bear in mind that the most dangér-
ous and most obvious things about a
lobster are his claws. They may
think a boiled lobster is harmless
enough, but have you ever tried to
crack one without giving your fingers
a few nasty cuts?
—_——
Of course, England's stage-man-
agers may have something up their
sleeves. Maybe, at the last moment,
a royal duke or so may be allowed
to “assert his independence as a pri-
vate individual” and thus may attend
the wedding in defiance of Mr. Bald |
win and his little gang, If George
VI should fly over “Incognito” at the
last minute, then, of course, his ador-
ing subjects would be bound to admit
that His Majesty has some spunk
after all. They'd love it, and build
countless legends around such a flight.
At any rate it’s an idea offered gratis
as a sort of hands-across-the-sea ges-
ture to help out the sadly muddled
. Englishmen whose job it is to handle
the public relations of a somewhat
outmoded state. :
BROADWAY
LIMITED
WwW. A. 8.
New York, N. Y.—Variety fa
erally conceded to be the sphee of
life . . . On Broadway, it is'peae-
tically a vital ingredient-—if one’s
life is to attain 3 goodly span of
years . . . Witness’ the number of
chorines, small time actors and
other professionals of the arts—
filling jobs as waitresses, models,
salesmen or even sandwich men
“just until my agent gets me the
part'I want.” . . . Ever notice how
much Ford Maddox Ford resembles
a Sealyham? ... Abe Lyman, the
orchestra leader confessed the
other day... . . said he had been
trying for weeks to pick the first.
three numbers in that radio hit
parade . . . and never even came
close to it . . . His secretary, who
can’t even play a zither, has
selected the top songs three times
in a row... Being a reporter is not
always a handicap . . . of the
town’s most prominent news-
hounds were recently caught in a
gambling raid . . . Quick as light-
ning the boys slipped their police
cards in their hat bands. . ,
whipped out paper and .pencil . .
and got away with ‘the bluff . . .
George Jean Nathan hds written
a play, “The Avon Flows” which
is to be produced shortly -. . .
Wonder how this most acidy of
critics, will take raps at his own
brain child! . ... en
ago today, General “Pa = Joftre
Avenue
was parading up Fift
..« . & never to be forgotten scene
with shouts, tears and the rip-
pling flame of many flags . . .
our reporter, a young man then,
got himself hoarse shouting ‘Vive
la France” . . . and would have
fallen out a, window atop the
‘famous old Cafe St. Gall hadn't
Harry Sladon, the proprietor, got
a vice-like grip around his adam’s
apple . . . Motorists beware: Hunt-
(ington West Virginia cop named
“Shorty” is doing much to keep
visitors away’ from that otherwise
pleasantcity... “Shorty” will sweat
ou were doing 50 just because
_ he doesn’t like the shape of your
nose... C of C better take notice!
... Last year’s menace wag“Kee
the reds out of the White House”
..» » and now it’s “Who will play
Scarlett O'Hara on he screen”
? , i
«+. Stbp Worrying!! .. . the player
was chosen” long ago, but it’s been’
a great build-up—and cost nothing
to put over . . . Bill Robinson ‘id
returning to Broadway for a va-
cation... , the great old hoofer may
while his time away doing a dance
or two at the Cotton Club. . . The
young man who sells illustrated.
programs in the lobby of the
/intér Garden, where Beatrice
Lillie and Bert Lahr co-star in
#The Show Is On,” is thinking of
Writing a book or giving lectures
on how to tell New Yorkers from
out-of-towners . . . He knows,
because thousands of each file past’
him every week and some of them
can’t help talking . . . It seems that
the New Yorkers regard: these
“Dukes” (Broadway for program
hawkers) as handy butts for wise-
cracks’ and sometimes as suckers
dor trickery, whereas the people
ftom ' Scranton, Syracuse and
“Middletown’’ consider them
friendly counsels-. . . The local
folks, for example, ask him how
much he makes “CH the racket”
.. - A frequent remark is, “No sale.
I can’t read.” . . . And sometimes
there are gems -of wit (?) such
as “Yow the head-waiter here?”
. - + Out-of-towners, on the other
.hand, ask .simple,) touching ques-
tions: “Will my ticket stub get me.
into the 'night club upstairs?” or
“Does Bert Lahr w i> a mask?”
or “Is there just a :low here, or
{do you serve food?” Seyond these
‘queries about the show; there are
|many about the town: “Tell me a
good hotel, brother.” “Do the sub-
ways run all night?” . . . Thus the
Winter ‘Garden “Duke” gets to
know his fellow men . .. And he
likes it . . . “Sometimes,” he says,
I'm more interested in answering
the questions than I am in selling.
But 1 suppose ‘no New Yorker
is going to believe that. There's the
whole difference.” The Broadway
arade,
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