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5. A centralized police force.
i between those that now exist .
8. Construction of more sidevsalks.
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.
PROGRAM
© WASHINGTON
PARADE
RAY JOHNSON
and
WALTER PIERCE
~ Washington, D. C.— "Hasta la
vista” and not “adios” said the black-
arded man as we bade him God-
speed. Don Fernando De Los Rios,
Ambassador of the Spanish Republic,
entle, intellectual and disciple ia
word and deed of vital democracy
vas homeward bound.
Senor de los Rios is, by profession,
educator. A former rector of the
adrid University, he lectured in
any countries, including the United
ates, before being called upon to
Serve his country in the diplomatic
field. And now he has been summon-
ed to Valencia to give his superiors a
first-hand report of American senti-
ment toward the battling nation.
To loyalist Spain the fight for mo-
ral support is as important as the
support of Germany and Italy to
General Franco. Money and credit
after the fighting ceases.
Joha L. Lewis, we are told by one
of his confidential friends, is now fac-
“ing the problem of getting more sheep
_into the fold and at the same time
ceping the goats out. Extreme radi
cals, racketeers, disguised company
unions, all itching to make trouble,
bave adopted C. I. O. labels with-
out even having notified headquart-
ers. Lewis, of course, is making every
effort to stop them, realizing that
his battles will have been in vain
should his followers lose confidence
in their leaders.
~ Professor Austin Clark, a genial
biologist attached to the Smithsonian
Institute, is happier today than he has |
~ been in ten years. He may now wear
‘the cross of a knight of the Order
«of Daneneborg, awarded him: in 1927
by the King of Denmark for distin-
guished services to science.
~The learned gentleman, an Ameri-
can citizen, couldn't accept a foreign
~ decoratibn without the express per-
mission of Congress.
will decide the ultimate™victory” long |
WPA AND THE SIDEWALK
As might have been expected, our discussion of
the length of time it has taken to construct the
Dallas-Fernbrook sidewalk brought a number of
answers, but to date none of them have explained
to our satisfaction why it has taken since last Octo-
ber to build as much of the sidewalk as has been
completed. :
If we were directing the activities of the Works
Progress Administration—and God forbid that we
should ever be so cursed—instead of being so quick
to resent fair criticism we should do something to
convince the public that WPA can be efficient.
In contrast to, PWA, which has made a fine rec-
ord, WPA, for a number of troublesome reasons,
has established a reputation for inefficiency, petty
squabbles, careless direction and, in some cases,
downright laziness. We cannot agree that the
workers are entirely to blame for this. The spirit
of carelessness comes from someone higher up, and
it is there the problem must be solved. It will not
be solved, of course, because the whole structure is
shot through with politics, and when politics comes
in, energetic efficiency generally goes out.
Staunch Democrats may resent our criticism, but
they cannot deny that WPA is a national target
for humor. Such a condition destroys the value of
the experiment and will, inevitably, be a major
factor in moulding the sentiment that will handi-
cap the Democrats in their efforts to justify their
retention in the high places of the State and N ation.
LEWIS FLUBS AN OPPORTUNITY
John L. Lewis, who held in his hands the oppor
tunity to establish ‘a new industrial spirit based
upon fundamental fairness to all, has flubbed his
task. aE
Public opinion, which decides all things in the
end, has turned against him, and rightly so, we
think, because more than any one man Mr. Lewis
has sponsored the acts which brought about the
current mess. 5
Unless someone convinces Mr. Lewis that he must
hand over the reins to some more far-sighted lead-
EDITORIALS
er, the C. I. O. chief will destroy what support or-
ganized labor has and put the movement back many,
many years.
For a long time public sympathy has been with
the worker. The ‘‘soulless Corporation” hasn't had
a chance, when the people as a whole were the
judges. And as a result labor has made steady pro-
gress in improving the living standard of the work-
men.
It is true that injustices still exist in some indus
tries and that the job of organized labor is not com-
pleted, but it is also true that the working men in
this country has won concessions unknown in many
other countrfes. Add to this the fact that we are
already engaged in a number of delicate social ex-
periments and you see the danger of thoughtless
and selfish agitation which may throw the national
machine out of gear with tragic results.
We are not functioning under a collectivist sys-
tem. We are not a communist nation. The work-
ers cannot expect to dictate the policies of the in-
dustries in which they work. Under our system —
and, given a chance, it can still be a good system
— Capital still has the right to do as it pleases with
its money, and if it decides to take tha money out
of industry and put it somewhere safe from the
hands of the C. I. O. raditals, the workers will lose
everything they had.
Intensified, the struggle John L. Lewis has brought
about can mean one of two things—an effort on
the part of industry to establish concentrated cap-
italism, which is fascism, or an effort on the part
of the workers to establish concentrated democracy,
which # communism. There is no place in the
present conflict for American democracy.
We cannot remain isolated from these things here
in Dallas because they are big enough to echo
through the entire country.
A ROOSEVELT ON STRIKES
Thirty-five years ago, when Wyoming Valley
was passing through one of its most serious coal
strikes, President Theodore Roosevelt, who took an
active part in bringing the labor war to an end, had
this to say: 2
“Th right to remain at work where others have
ceased to work, or to engage anew in work which
others have abandoned, is part of the personal lib-
erty of a citizen that can never be surrendered.
“Aproval of the object of a strike, or persuasion
that its purpose is high and noble, cannot sanction
an attempt to destroy the right of others to a dif-
ferent opinion in this respect, or to interfere with
their conduct in choosing to work upon what terms
and at which time and for whom it may please them
to do so.
“This all seems too plain for argument. Common
sense and common law alike denounce the conduct
of those who interfere with this fundamental right
of the citizen. The assertion of the right seems trite
and commonplace, but that land is blessed where
the maxims of liberty are commonplaces.”
THE HEN HAS HER DAY
The Great American Hen comes to the rescue
of consumers all over the country by doing her bit
to supply eggs and poultry meat ia the face of a
shortage of beef, pork and lamb. :
The widely advertised scarcity which threatens
a meat famine in the United States due to farmers
holding animals back for breeding is to be off-set,
according to reports of the Institute of American
Poultry Industries, by a big reserve of both poultry
and eggs. The yield of laying hens is also excep-
tionally good this year. There is undoubtedly a
scarcity of meats as a whole as reflected in high
prices, but neither scarcity nor high prices exist as
yet in eggs and poultry.
Consumers will welcome this news, because poul-
try meat has always occupied an enviable place on
the American table. Some five million three hun-
dred thousand farmers out of a total of six million
raise poultry. Three million have eggs and poultry
for market. Farmers rely on this side line as a reg-
ular year around cash income—helping oft times to
keep their children in school.
Class ‘warfare comes to Yale in
“They Jerome Davis Case” (Ameri-
can Federation of Teachers, 506 S.
Wabash Ave., Chicago, Ill. 15¢) This
history of the events leading up to the
proposed dismissal of Professor Davis
from Yale contains all the elements
of comedy and all the ¢lements of
‘tragedy. In his “Capitalism And Its
RIVES
MATTHEWS
Adventures of an Intellectual Faun”
(Blackstone Publishers, 118 West
27h St., New York,*N. Y. 50c).
The results are varied. Sometimes he
makes you want to cheer when he
captures a particularly vicious little
bug. At other times the part he ex-
poses merely invites a sudden uplift-
ing of your shoe in the motion wvul-
garly known as a boot.
Culture,” written during a leave of
absence granted by the university so
that Professor Davis could establish
his scholarship, and thus become a
full professor, Profesor Davis ap-
pears to have bitten the hands that
fed him by criticizing many corpora:
tions and their directors, who happen,
also, to be the directors who hire and
fire on behalf of the Yale Corpora-
tion. Because of this book, Profes-
sor Davis failed to establish his
“scholarship” at Yale, even though
Congress finally got around to it
last week and granted the professor
Cross.
Here's hoping this item escapes the
eagle-eyed attention of Nazi repre-
sentatives in Washington or we'll be
for more “‘cussin” from Berlin.
Miss Marguerite Le Hand, confi-
dential private secretary to President
Ronsevelt, recently accepted an hon-
orary LL.D. from Rosary College at
River Forest, Ill., and to make mat-
ters worse the degree was conferred
upon her in the name of Cardinal
~ Miandelein and in the presence of Mr.
and Mrs. Roosevelt.
~ Jowa’s Democratic Senator Herring
is convinced that the thing most
likely to produce sudden adjourn
ment of Congress — should the ses
sion threaten to project
into the summer — is a continued
cat wave “When I was Governor
of Iowa,” said the Hawkeye states
ran, “I looked out of my windows
at the Capitol in Des Moines every
morning regularly, and simply studi:
ed the condition of the lawn. As
soon as I noticed that the grass was
beginning to sear and turn yellow I
knew I wouldn't have the Legisla-
ture on my hands very long!” A
wise politico is Senator Herring and
we accept his vifws.
Our ambassadors do not spend all
their time practicing Yankee shirt-
sleeve diplomacy. William E. Dood,
at present in Berlin in the interest
of Uncle Sam, has found the time
to turn author. The first volume of
a series from Dodd's hand is ironic
“ally entitled “Struggles for Democ-
gacy.” It probably won't’ be trans
fated into the German language over
it received favorable comments else-
where. That is comedy, if you will,
permission to receive the covgtR ior the handbiter, at the moment of
biting the hand, is a comic character,
if only because he fails to realize
what a tragic figure he will become
when no hand extends food. He is
like the man whose foot is about to
come down on a banana peel.
* ok %
The Davis Case, however, is not
liable to become a personal tragedy.
Professor Davis seems quite able to
take care of himself. But the stark
tragedy that is implicit in this whole
affair is that if a great university in
this country assumes leadership in the
ever growing tendency these days to
suppress freedom of speech and free
dom of ideas we may shortly see in
this country the type of universities
itself far\that so subserviently dish out the
castrated “intellectualities” that only
a Hitler will permit the inquiring
minds of youth.
* *® *
It would appear that Professor Da-
vis has long been one of Yale's most
troublesome “bad boys’ and that his
public avowals of liberal ideas have
cause no end of embarrassment to
Yale's president, one of whose most
important functions is wheedling ea
dowments out of the very men Pro
fessor Davis has branded as the arch-
vilains of our day.
* * *
One does not have to agree with
the directors of Yale to see their
reasons for dismissing Professor Da-
vis. Yale happens to be their club;
they happen to pay all #s experises,
so why shouldnt they kick out an
employee who uses the prestige of
their club as a sounding board against
ways in which they make their money
there. Old fashioned books just aren’t
any m0 She enn
are socially unethical, if not actually,
lessly in “Fantasia Impromptu: The
in a legal sense, dishonest and cor-
rupt?
* * *
The only solution possible for
those who wish to see to it that the
sources of knowledge are not pollut-
ed by a few powerful, rich men, is
the university financed with the tax-
payers’ money. Unfortunately while
there are now many of these, few
of them have yet to command the
prestige enjoyed by several of our
privately endowed universities. As
I see it, there are two reasons for
this: (1) state legislatures handling
taxpayers’ money have been too nig
gardly; (2) since these universities
have been established by the taxpay-
ers, their committees on admissions
have felt it necessary to apply that
political myth “all men are born free
and equal” to the intellectual poten-
tialities of all students applying for
admission. In short, their standards
have not always been as high as they
might have been, the stress has been
rather on quantity than on quality.
* * *
Neverless, it seems to me, the fu
ture of the state university appears
much brighter than the prospects in
store for universities like Yale, whose
beautiful buildings, dedicated to the
pursuit of knowledge and truth, may
finally serve as garrisons for youths
ful fascists. Let’s hope that dark day
may never come.
* * %
From current pamphlets it is easy
to suppose there is no peace on earth,
there is no escape from fighting men.
And yet across all the brutal wars
of history there has come down to us
a game that has occupied the minds
of peaceful and contemplative men
for centuries. That game is the game
of chess, in some respects the most
refined warfare of all. Three thou-
sand years before Christ, the facts
that men were playing hess was re-
corded on a tablet in a pyramid at
Gizeh.
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Wars may come, and wars may go, ,
but chess, apparently, goes on forever
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and that is why pamphlets like
“Curious Chess Facts” by Irving
Cherney (Black Knight Press, 173
Clarkson Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y. 75c)
will always have an appeal for de-
votees of this game of games.
x * %
Of Mr. Cheraey’s 206 chess anec-
dotes, item number 186, taken from
Lombroso’s “The Man of Genius”
would make an excellent plot for a
short story writer with the talents
of an Edgar Allen Poe: “In 1850
an old passion for chess awoke in
Szechenyi (founder of the Magyar
Academy) and took an insane char-
acter. It became necessary to pay a
poor student to play with him for
ten or twelve hours at a time. The
unfortunate student went mad, but
Szechenyi slowly became sane.”
* x
Item 148 states “a recent tourna-
ment in Russia had over 700,000 en-
tries. 10,000 of these were women.
Item 202: “The number of possible
ways of playing the first ten moves
on each side of a game of chess is
169, 518, 829, 100, 544, 00, 000, 000,
000, 000.” I regret to say that Mir.
Cherney neglects to state just who
figured that one out.
* % %
Item 14: “Capablanca played 103
games simultaneously in Cleveland in
1922. While the total number of
games has been exceeded, the per-
centage achieved by the Cuban
Grandmaster has never been ap-
proached: he lost none, allowed one
draw, won all the rest!”
s Fo 0B
Item 11: “A” book published in
Geman whose title is “Advice to Spec-
tatore at Chess Tournaments’ is com-
pletely bank with the exception of
one page. On this page there are but
two words ‘Halt’s Maul’ (‘Keep
Your Mouth Shut!’)” I guess this
goss for reviewers who indulge in too
miny quotes. But with a pamphlet
{ke this one, the temptation is very
Jreat. .
x x 0%
Benjamin De Casseres has ants in
his mental pants and dares to go
after the little devils quite shame-
x * =
Still, Mk.- DeCasseres is a man after
my own heart. He says what he
wants to say in as forthright a man-
ner as is possible this side of stream-
of consciousness detectors. Of course
he postures, but who doesn’t? At
least in a pamphlet he doesn’t have
to posture according to laws laid
down by publishers and magazine
editors. Thus he comes as close
to thinking out loud in print as
is possible in this censored world.
Young writers, especially, should find
a reading of this pamphlet a profit-
able experience. Whether they ap-
prove of Mr. DeCasseres’ vigorous
slaps, scratchings, pinchings, and
massagings, whether they agree with
any of his conclusions does not miat-
ter. If they will emulate his method,
even the bread and butter novel of
the future may be a better piece of
workmanship.
In short, Mr. DeCasseres takes
you into his studio. There you see
all the tools of a writer's trade scat-
tered about, a few uncomplete
sketches, a tantalizing mess of clay
and paints, marble and bronze, light
and shade, all the materials with
which to create a work of art, plus
many of the annoying obstacles
which tend to hinder its creation.
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Here, in Mpg. DeCasseres own
words, is ‘“‘an intellectual, emotional
and spiritual autobiography. It is
done spontaneously, without calcula-
tion. It is a mirror broken into a
thousand bits. In each bit an angle,
a part of me is shown.” It is fortu-
nate that Mr. DeCasseres is justified
in comparing himself to a mirror.
Some writers, sanguine enough to es
say a similar experiment, would show
up as brown beer bottle glass or just
plain glassblower’s sludge.
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“A Short History of Hell” by Ray-
mond B. Bragg (The First Unitarian
Society, 1526 Harmon Place, Minne-
apolis, Minn. 10c) is a neat and
scholarly handling of what is now
generally a humorous subject, In the
tropics hell was a place of fire and
flame, in the north a place of dark-
ness, ice and snow. One man’s
heaven is another man’s hell.
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BROADWAY
LIMITED
W. A. 8. i
New York, N. Y.—For those who
have a yen for the piano the most
exciting experience in local life is
still Alex Templeton, the blind pian-
ist....Jess Willard, man mountain and
ex-heavy champ is going to join the
ranks of pub beanery owners....Jack
Dempsey, Tony Canzoneri, Mickey
Walker and Beany Leonard will now
and Eddies on Swing Lane, two “a-
bout-town™ boys ‘are discussing means
of getting home argumentative
voices ring through the night, “Aw,
come on. You're too drunk to ride
in the rumble seat. You just drive!”
....a little further down the street a
chorine starts across the street against
the heavy after theatre traffic... a
little old lady (you hum that part of
it) who peeddles wares outside the
hot-spots grasps her by the arm ‘Please
she begins, “I'm so tired. I don’t
want to see an accident.”.. The young
“artist” obligingly keeps her from
seeing an accident....Phil Baker tells
me that present-day applicants for
radio roles display considerable en-
terprise.... Instead of haunting the
studios and writing long letters beg-
ging audltions, the clever ones now
submit recordings of their voices and
material....Baker has received fifteen
discs from applicants, who aspire to
serve as standins for “Bottle”....Don
Voorhees had to part with his parrot
this week—no, it wasn’t because the
bird got profane. But Polly was
practically giving Maestro Voorhees’
Scottie pups a nervous breakdown!
The parrot learned to whistle for the
dogs exactly the way Don does, and
the poor Scotties were led a dog’s life
running all day long in answer to the
phony summons... Healthiest crew of
musicians are Carl Ravell’s band men
....Before becoming a singing maestro
Ravell studied medicine with an eye
today he makes good use of this
training....At least every three months
the maestro turns medico and gives
his orchestra a going-over—and even
insists on their taking regular exercise
to keep in perfect trim...In one of
the most exclusive clubs in New
York there is a small inner circle
whose members, all professional men,
meet at dinners... At each meeting
some subject is chosen for discussion
...one evening recently the subject
was “fear”... Albert Spalding, distin-
guished concert violinist, confessed
that he had felt absolute terror at one
time during the World War. He was
a member of a machine gun crew...
The fingers of another member had
just been torn off and Spalding knew
that it was his turn next to man the
gun. He looked at his buddy's mutila-
ted hands; then at his own—they
were trembling .... Suddenly, in the
face of death, he laughed. He had
realized that even if he lost his hands
he could still listen to music....If he
sesssanee
machine gun...As music lovers the
world over know, (and are thankful
for) nothing happened. Evelyn Nes-
bit, Harry K. Thav’s ex-—is back
on Broadway after a long absence
from the hot spots caused by a pro-
longed illness... Tm back in my
stride,” explaths the once beautiful
Floradora girl who had been pursu-
ing her hobby of esoteric philosophy
a pastime that led the editor of a
yellow sheet to send a reporter back
for another interview..." Get another
story. No one will believe Evelyn
Nesbit cares about astrology, reincar-
nation or physical planes!”....Asked
about Stanford White's murderer, “I
never hear from Mr. Thaw,” she
just now and I hope he stays there
forever”... The Broadway Parade.
be his competitors....In front of Leon:
to a career as a physician, and even
Doughboy Spalding took over the w/
said, “Thank the Lord. He's in Italy {
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