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WALTER PIERCE
Washington, D. C., October 28—
(Special to the Post) — What the
the AAA idea, and wages and hours
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legislation, a new name for the NRA
idea. are the outstanding considera
res to check monopoly (a new
name for anti-trust laws) and region
al planning (Federal ‘Bodies Water
Power Production) are secondary.
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What Congress actually will do
tors dusted off their pants and went
home to what they obviously consid-
‘ered a well-earned rest for work well
‘done. They are coming back after
having had ample opportunity for
getting instructions from the folks
back home and for digesting the re-
sults of the November elections. Pre-
‘sumably in their support of or oppo-
sition to the Administration measur
es they will be on certain ground.
ne
Certainly 1937 will go down in
history as a year when Congress put
in an astonishing amount of time at
the Capitol, if not at work. It may
even foreshadow the time when legis
lators work fifty weeks in the year,
just like the people who pay the bills.
The question of neutrality and en-
tanglement in foreign wars is bound
to crop up. However, seasoned ob-
servers are almost unanimous in der
_claring that any general European
war is highly improbable. They
maintain that Germany and Italy
‘can accomplish all their objectives
even to the restoration of certain
German colonies if they keep up a
bold front and make overt attacks.
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England, it is pointed out, has
never, in modern times, engaged in
a major war without first making sure
of sufficient allies to bear the brunt
of the fighting. Now, with Hindu
India demanding independence; with
her Moslem possessions aroused by
her pro-Jew, anti-Arab policy in Pal-
estine and with the Dominions no
longer at her beck and call, Great
Britain is reduced to that status of
being “too proud to fight” which she
found so contemptible in us twenty
years ago.
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The Supreme Court refusal to res
view the Securities and Exchange
Commissions acts as a blow to Wall
Street, coming as it did on the heels
of the widely publicized speech of
Winthrop W. Aldrich, chairman of
the Chase National Bank, in which
he blamed the stock market break on
the SEC.
{ However,
amused rather than dismayed official
It was his statement
at least one portion
Washington.
that “liquidation of estates. ...might
easily bring in less than enough cash
to pay the taxes, not to speak of the
* fact that nothing whatever would be
left for the heirs.”
Presumably Mr. Aldrich believes
that all estates consist almost entirely
of Wall Street stocks, whereas the
average American dies with only two
shares of stock in his possession, and
one of them is already worthless.
communities are not worthy of office, but because
tradition is strong. It takes no expert prophet to
predict that outcome. :
It is more difficult to make a prediction on the
county results. On the basis of figures the outlook
for the Republican candidates is less optimistic than
it has been in many, many years. The latest reg-
istration figures show a majority of about 14,000
for the Republican party in Luzerne County, but
they also show that while the G. O. P. has been
losing 27,000 votes, the Democrats have been gain-
ing 12,000.
That trend is dangerous for the county Republi
can candidates. It is a trend that we in this rock-
ribbed Republican sector may have overlooked. It
is a trend which, in our opinion, is very likely to
sweep a number of the Democratic county candi-
dates to victory next Tuesday.
This paper has criticized the Luzerne County
Republican Committee frequently. We cannot re-
frain now from reminding Republican leaders that
many of the skeletons we rattled are now coming
out to haunt the party at a time when unity is a
prime necessity.
If we have any advice to voters before next Tues
day's election it is this: Vote the man, not the
party. Party politics is carried to ridiculous ex-
!tremes in this county. When it demands that a
voter cast his ballot for some mutton-head, just be-
cause that questionable character of the community
is on the party band-wagon, it goes too far.
To this newspaper, it does not matter how you
vote. Our friends are numbered on both sides,
|there are no great issues at stake, and our staff in-
cludes both Democrats and Republicans, with a gen-
erqus sprinkling of Socialists. We recognize the
merits of men on both sides of the political fence.
We recognize a few fellows who don’t deserve the
offices they seek.
We advise our readers to do the same.
A FEW QUESTION
For the past several months The Post has been
publishing a series of articles by F. A. Pitkin, ex
ecutive director of the Pennsylvania State Planning
Board. These articles should have stimulated some
good. hard thinking. A review of them may be
helpful.
We have read so far that:
Pennsylvania's population is ceasing to grow,
that fewer children are being born, and that many
Pennsylvanians are moving away from the State
in search of work. Are these good omens or bad
ones? Will Pennsylvanians be better off if they
are fewer in number? Is it likely that the popula-
tion will ever grow rapidly again? What plans
should be made to meet the needs of a stationary
or dwindling population? Should people be offered
inducements to raise larger families,
The State has not enough modern dwellings to
house all its people at prices they can afford to pay.
How can this condition ‘be corrected How can
low-cost houses be built? What is needed in our
community?
Many Pennsylvania families have incomes too
small for their needs while one-fortieth of the fam-
ilies in the State receive nearly one-third of all the
income. Would it be desirable for wealth to be
distributed more equally? Will that ever be pos
sible? How? How does the present distribution
of wealth compare with that in pioneer America?
About ‘one-fourth Jof all Pennsylvania workers
are, or have been recently, unemployed and modern
machinery now does so much of their work that
many of them may never be able to find employ-
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WASHINGTON EDIIORIALS BROADWAY
PARADE VOTE THE MAN, NOT THE PARTY We still try to keep all’ thew things in wind ment in private industry again. Should the gov- .
: Dall 4 its vicki a Reval when we go to the polls next Tuesday. We say, ernment create work for all the unemployed? If LIMITED
; i > all is ny ee be ublican 8€C fry nkly. that party lines will be the least important not. how shall they be supported? How can ma-
By lon. It wil probably be a Republican SeCHON, ¢hino in our decision. We shall try to vote fairly, chines be used to divide labor more equally, and to By
with Republican officials, after next Tuesday, not ih onl ; id lth d ; a
AV. JOHNSON Beaute he Donicrtie ordutiies tpising in Tact! with only our conscience as our guide. . fill the needs of a greater portion of the population? ;
R Would it be wise to use hand labor instead of ma- W. A. =
chines simply to give employment to more people?
These are only a few of the questions raised.
Have you any answers? Why not tell us what your
suggestions are? :
ea.
A CRYING NEED
The lack of proper sewage disposal in Dallas and
its vicinity is a serious handicap to the growth of
this section. There is a crying need for some con
certed action to establish a complete, modern séw-
age system or disposal plant hére.
The Post has pointed repeatedly to the extreme
danger in allowing sewage ‘to accumulate near
dwelling houses, even if in privies and cesspools,
and it is doubly dangerous to permit any sewage
to drain into Toby's Creek.
The safe way to dispose of sewage, if ‘public
health is to be protected, is to drain or pump it
from each house and building through underground
sewer pipes to a central sewage disposal plant,
where it can be carefully-treated to destroy harmful
bacteria and then discharged into 3
¥ river or creek.
Sewage systems, like water works, are often
more economical and efficient to construct and man-
age if several neighboring communities combine to
make one large sewerage district with a single plant’
for treatment and disposal. We should like to see
officials from Dallas Township and Borough and
Kingston Township confer together in an effort
to attack this old problem. The probability that
there will be a:steady increase in building here for
some time to come makes this a good time to do
something about it, that one obstacle to discourage
new residents may be removed.
Last Saturday over in Paterson, N.
rain to blow over. It always did, and
J., I helped my cousin from Ireland
get married. While the occasion was
as festive as weddings always are, I
could not escape the feeling that I was
assisting at a wake. Beneath mv ush-
ter’s finery one part of me was bury-
ing anothed part of me. I was, in ef-
fect, presiding at my own wake.
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Twelve long years ago I left be-
hind me eighteen years of troubled
childhood, boyhood and youth and
RIVES
MATTHEWS
pretty soon, too.
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The rest of this story is not un-
usual, either. There was eighteen’s in-
evitable urge and calf like expression
of it (my first essay, as a matter, of
fact) and it was followed by seven-
teen’s inevitable smack of the palm
on eighteen’s cheek. In my day. you
see, nice girls slapped boys for try-
ing to steal kisses.
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sailed for Europe. I had just been
I was miserable for days, for the
kicked out of Princeton, and my par-
ents were in the process of divorcing
each other. I felt very lonely. As a
boy I had always wanted a brother,
but instead, I was given two sisters,
younger sisters who were nice little
girls you couldn't kick in the stomach
or ring doorbells with, and do any-
thing that wasn’t ladylike.
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In Ireland I found a wonderful,
motherly cousin. a fatherly cousin
who was ready to play tennis and
snooker with all the boys and girls
who gathered at his house, and a
cousin just two years older than I
who slipped nicely into the role of
the brother I had always wanted.
I came to spend a week-end, and
stayed a summer. And the last time
I ever really shed tears was when I
boarded the steamer for Glasgow in
the Fall. It was very un-Anglo-Saxon
of me, and very embarassing all a
round, I'm afraid, but at the time we
all ascribed it to a deadly potion
known in those parts as “wee doch
andorris.”
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When what was to be just a week
end in Ireland was about over, and I
indicated that I'd better be getting on
Cousin Bertha said she wouldn’t hear
of my going, and Maurice quickly in-
terposed and said he was counting on
me to be his partner in a tennis tour-
nament the following week at Down
Patrick, that entries for both of us
had been made, and that I simply
couldn’t think of letting him down.
So it went, week after week. Some-
thing was always planned ahead that
included me; tennis parties galore,
a visit to the Giants’ Causeway, a
week at Ballycastle, a trip to see the
glass at Waterford, a days’ boating
on the Lagan, a subscription dance at
Bangor,” and parties beyond counting
in the houses of their friends.
There was only one fly in all this
delightful ointment. I didn’t exactly
steal Maurice’s girl, but I wanted to.
I couldn’t help myself. But the more
I thought I was falling in love with
her the more miserable I felt for be-
‘ing such a cad. It was a situation, I
can tell you.
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There was a rainy afternoon on a
golf course I remember. I was eigh-
teen and she, seventeen. And there
was nothing really unusual about the
whole thing. Rain is not unusual in
Antrim, and on the golf course at
Ballycastle there were many shelters
you could run to if rain came over
from Scotland. You just ran to one
of these shelters and waited for the
JOHN TAXPAYER--HE CAN TARF IT
rest of the summer, in fact. Here I
had tried to steal his girl because I
couldn’t help myself, and my attempt
had met with failure. So matters were
doubly worse. She knew, after that
afternoon on the golf course when
rain blotted out the green and pur-
ple smudge which was Scotland on
the east, what a cad I was too. It's
bad enough, when you're eighteen,
knowing you're not worthy of any-
one’s respect, but it’s hell to know
that someone else knows it.
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Well, I suppose you think this is
all the after-effects of champagne. In
a sense, it is, if you will grant that
the days of one’s youth may still give
off a few bubbles when you add a
dash of memory to the residue twelve
years later. And that’s just what hap-
pened to me last week in Maurice's
wedding.
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Only then did I learn that the ter-
rible secret I had been keeping to
myself those otherwise joyous sum-
mer days in Ireland was no secret
at all to my brother-cousin. Girls may
not kiss and tell, but apparently they
tell if they're kissed. She told Maur-
ice about my trying to kiss her, and
about her slappping me. And last
week I learned that Maurice, at
twenty, knew better how to interpret
a lop on the cheek than I did, and
that he'd been miserable about it, too.
Bet that just goes to show what a
brother he was to me. He was the
sort of brother I had always imagin-
ed, too good to be true, really, be-
cause I can’t imagine a real brother
letting me get away with even a slap
from his girl without a punch in the
jaw from him.
It’s not much of a story, as I said
before. It proves nothing at all except
that tender ghosts can walk even a-
mid the merriment of weddings.
New York, N. C., October 28—
(Special = to the Post) — Saturday
night in the night clubs varies with
‘|the seasons.
Winter time... .college fraternities
....wahoo social clubs. ...debs on
the loose from Park Avenue parties
«+. . The Six’ Stenogs from Guest &
fit of boy friends. ...attendance
swell. .. . receipts tops.
Springtime: Young love holding
hands under the table.... middle
aged love....all kinds of love....
attendance fair... .receipts low. ...
because they're too sappy to eat or
drink.
Summertime: Tourists . ... left-at-
home husbands. ...buyers and but-
ter-and-egg men with lonely local
ladies . . . . attendance good .... re
ceipts fair..... But sometimes there
has to be a kickback to the Ii’ ladies
for bringing in the suckers.
‘Fall: After-the-football game
crowds .... attendance tops ....re
ceipts swell. ...damage terrific.....
backs want to demonstrate just how
Oblotsky should have tackled Blivitch
on the five-yard line. 4
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Floor Show Craze of the Mpment:
Voodoo Dancers.
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Latest Broadwaywardness: Having
your name painted on the back of a
tiny turtle and parcel posting it to
your friends.
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This Column’s Pet Shudder: The
tabloid’s present practice of putting
photos of corpses on the front page.
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cialities running wild. ...f’rinstance
the one who tried to commandeer a
taxi and throw out the passenger only
the passenger happened to be a plain
clothes cop and the socialite landed
in the hospital. ...and in jail.
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...and the big name who bopped
a waiter with a bottle. . ..and landed
before a judge. ...very, very indig-
nant.
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Silly Simultaneums: ' The stock
market hitting new lows and theatre
tickets hitting new highs.
Story of-the-Week: Home town
boy came to New York and made
good. ...so good that his name was
known all over the country. ... even
in the Home Town. ...but the H. T.
was not impressed. . .for forty years
the H. T. boy tried to make a dent
....he gave an organ to the church
-...a library to the high school. ...
a bell to the firehouse. ...no dent. . .
so at last he bought a big tract of
land and made it a Memorial Park,
tal in the center...... this time he
seemed to have dented. ...he was in
vited to dedicate the park. ...with
bands and fireworks. . . ,and the may-
or declared a civic holiday and went
to the railroad station with the city
council and the police and the fires
men. ...and fellow citizens... .and
small boys....and the H. T. boy
climbed down from his private car
....with his family and friends...
and others. ...and the Band played
“Hail the Conquering Hero Comes”
....and painted on the bass drum
Insane Asylum.”
Gore making ‘whoops without bene-
because all the grandstand quarter
....and Pet Peeve: So-called so- ;
with a statue of himself on a pedes
was the legend. ..."Welcome. State &