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THE DALLAS POST, FRIDAY, MARCH 11, 1938
POST
SCRIPTS
LINCOLN
ENGLAND
1. Vol, 48
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We have kept our international mail
out of this column for some time but this
week the postman brought a letter from
Lincoln, England, which deserves a bigger
audience than one.
It is from Geoffrey W. Serth of the
Lincolnshire Chronicle. Jeff, who is one
of the five British and one Australian
newspapermen who carry on a correspon:
dence with this department, has made Post
Scripts before and we know from the res:
ponse we got when we introduced him
that this latest epistle will make more
American friends for him.
It is noteworthy that he begins his let-
ter by talking of war.
“Over here,” he rites, “you can find
reference to war and the European situa.
tion in almost every daily paper you pick
up. The main topics of conversation are,
as usual, football and cricket, racing and
the football pools Thinking that you
would be interested, I have kept a careful
note of the number of times that the dan-
vate conversations with me during the
past fortnight or so. I have broached the
subject myself several times but only twice
has it been brought up by some one else.
You can see, therefore, that it is not the
subject that is uppermost in everyone's
mind.
“A. R. P. (Air Raids Precautions) are
the subject of fairly frequent lectures and
it has been announced, fairly frequently,
that everybody is to be supplied with a
gas mask, that buckets of sand and shov-
els must be in every house in case of fire;
but nothing has been done in Lincoln-
shire in this connection. Only the other
day I was chatting to the organizing A. R
~ P. Officer for Lincoln and he referred to
the utter lack of enthusiasm and interest
being shown by the people.
i “Under Mr. Hore Belisha—the man
+ who was go ahead enough when Minister
‘of Transport to revolutionize our traffic
system—the Army is being brought up to
date. Conditions have been improved,
te been taken to make promo-
tion from the ranks much easier, almost
all the aged heads of the Army have re-
tired and, altogether, the Forces are be-
ing vastly improved. The Air Force was,
of course, tip top before (don’t believe
all those stories about lack of machines
and poor quality ones at that). The re
cent flight of a standard R. A. F. mach-
ine from Edinburgh to London at 409
miles an hour (think of getting from
one end of your country to the other in
about three quarters of an hour!) shows
that the ’planes are not too bad.
“1 read that America is laying down
the keels of a few new warships. Do tell
me about them. Principally, I admit, ow-
ing to armament work there is not mucn
unemployment in this country. It is, 1
suppose, inevitable that there will always
be some people out of work, a proportion
of whom are unemployable but the total
now is more or less wieldy. There are
“distressed areas” which are suffering
badly, but in Lincoln for instance the to-
tal is 2,000 men out of a total popula-
tion (men, women and children) of a-
- bout 66,000. In Southorpe, 30 miles out
of Lincoln, where the principal industry
is the manufacture of iron and steel, un-
employment is negligible and wages rule
high.
“The price of most manufactured artis
cles containing metal has risen enormous.
ly as the producers find it impossible te
buy iron and steel at reasonable prices,
and, when they do find a firm ready to
take their orders, they have to wait a long
time before receiving the metal.
“It is probable that when the Govern.
ment has finished its expenditure on ar-
maments we shall see an improvement
made in the roads of the country. Already
the Government is making substantial
grants to county councils to help them in
making new roads and improving old
ones. - But when they start their new
scheme I shall look for improvements on
a much bigger scale. One thing we very
badly need is a uniformity in width and
colour of our trunk roads. Many roads
are tarmacadamed with a black finish that
is terrible to drive on at night. There is
terial that will reflect instead of absorb-
ing the headlights of cars.
“One of the latest Government drives
to interest the people over here was the
Keep Fit Campaign. In some parts of the
country it has gone down well. In Lin-
coln no one is really interested. Volun-
tary instructors have received special train-
ing in conducting physical culture classes
and know how to make their classes in-
teresting but at the recent class there were
less than a dozen men present—from a
city of 66,000! The real fact is, I sup-
° pose, that those people who are interested
in sport and athletics are already devoting
all the spare time they can afford, and a
bit more, to their sport. Those who aren’t
interested are jolly well not going to be.
Added to that is the fact that the people
don’t like the idea of doing anything in
the nature of Government-ordered physi-
cal jerks. The cost of attending these
tlasses is, I believe, 2d a week, yet lots
(Continued on Page 8)
ger of war has been introduced into pri-|
every probability now that all new roads |
will be dressed with a light coloured ma- |
THEY'LL CARRY DEMOCRATIC STANDARD
GOV. GEORGE H. EARLE
For U. S. Senator
"DR. LEO C. MUNDY
For Lieutenant-Governor
CHARLES ALVIN JONES
For Governor
THOMAS A. LOGUE
For Secretary of Internal Affairs
Selected by the State Democratic committee, these four men will seek
Democratic nominations in the May primaries.
' Luzerne County men seeking a major
Dr. Mundy is one of three
state office this year. Judge James of
Plymouth is a candidate for the Republican nomination for Governor and
this week Thomas P. Kennedy of Hazleton, secretary-treasurer of the United
Mine Workers, announced he will be
mocratic nomination for Governor.
an independent candidate for the De-
He will have the support of John L.
Lewis, powerful CIO leader, who opposed the state committee’s slating of
James.
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ROTARY AND KIWANIS
WILL MEET TOGETHER
TO DISCUSS PROGRAM
Mt. Greenwood Kiwanis Club and
Dallas Rotary Club will have a joint
meeting at Hillside Inn on Wednes-
day night, March 23, to discuss fur-
ther plans for the proposed Commun-
ity Council,
Various ‘committees have been in-
vestigating various suggested civic im-
provements and are beginning to
make their reports to the joint com-
mittee from the two civic clubs in
vestigating the plan.
Reports of - those committees will
be printed in The Post in the near
future.
Dickey Will Talk
To Potato Growers
Meetings To Be Held Next
~ Week At Lehman And
Carverton
Four meetings of interest to potato
growers and general farmers will be held
in Luzerne County next week under aus-
pices of Luzerne County Agricultural Ex-
tension Association.
John R. Dickey, who is in charge of
the Crops Extension Department of Penn-
sylvania State College, will address the
meetings on potato growing, lime, legum-
es and general crops. Mr. Dickey is con-
sidered an authority on farm crops. Any
grower is welcome to attend.
The schedule of meetings: Tuesday,
1:30 p. m., Carverton Grange Hall; 8 p.
m,, Huntington Mills High School; Wed-
nesday, 1:30 p. m., Lehman M. E.
Church; 8 p. m., Junior Mechanics Hall,
Sugarloaf Township.
Dallas Girls Win
Basketball Title
Defeat Kingston Township
In Post-Season Game,
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Coach Mary Elizabeth Morgén's crack
girls basketball team from Dallas Borough
High School clinched the Back Mountain
championship in a post-season game with
Kingston Township girls on Tuesday nite
at the Dallas Township gymnasium.
The game, which ended 18 to 9 in
the champions’ favor, was necessary to
break a tie for first place between Dallas |
Borough and Kingston Township. Dallas |
took an early lead in the game and held
it until the end.
For the last seven years Lehman High
School girls have been Back Mouhtain
champions but this year that team finish.
ed the season in a last-place tie with Lake-
ton. Dallas Borough lost only one game
during the season.
crmmom—— GE Grn
Mr. and Mrs. C. D. Huff, Shavertown,
who has been ill, is ‘much improved. She
celebrated her 84th birthday on Monday.
Her husband, C. D. Huff, is seriously ill.
Lent Adjusts Eyes
To Divine Reality
Prepares Man For Trium-
phant Note Of Easter
Morn, May Believes
This is the second of a series of
articles on Lent being written espee:
ially for The Post by local clergy-
men. Next week Rev. Guy A. Lein-
thall of Alderson will be the guest
contributor. It is hoped that these
sermonettes will bring about a finer
appreciation of Lent among all de-
nominations.
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' By REV. RUSSELL J. MAY #
Pastor, Shavertown M. E. Church
*
Man has always been a two-world crea-
ture. In his best moments he has in-
stinctively known that life consists of
more than food and raiment. Since long
before the ancient Psalmist said, ‘‘Be still
and know,” mankind has felt the inner
urge of the soul upward.
In our modern day of proud sophistica-
tion it may be the popular thing to place
a question mark before everything that
appears to be religious, but the person
who thinks, knows that life without de-
pendence upon a higher Power is a pret
ty sordid and discouraging experience.
The Lenten season gives us a definite
time before Easter during which we may
readjust the focus of our eyes from the
near things of ordinary human experien-
ce- until the glorious background of Di-
vine reality appears. True faith is like
the colors of a gorgeous sunrise, the deli
cate tint of a rose, the stirring harmon.
ies of a symphony or the security and
love which turn a house into a home. A
person may ‘exist without any of these
but he cannot live victoriously.
If God lives and loves, as Easter as-
sures us, then life cannot be the same.
The greatest thing that could ever hap-
pen to any individual would be the com-
ing of a soul stirring certainty that Je-
sus lives! If he does then we shall live
also. If he does not then nothing else
matters. The testimony of the Ages
gathers together in the triumphant hymns
of Easter to assure us that he does. “Be
still and know.
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SCOUT HONORED
Francis J. Pierce will receive the Gol
den RBaglet Award of the Girl Scouts
tonight at 7:30 at a ceremony at Shaver-
town M. E. Church.
Traction Company
And Wilke
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as filed
Wilkes-Barre Rai .
Pennsylvania
an application with
the
Utility Commission requesting permission
to abandon its street car service between
Wilkes-Barre and Dallas. At the same
time an affiliated company, Wyoming
Valley Autobus Corp., has asked for a
Certificate of Public Conveyance to estab-
lish bus lines in place of the trolleys.
There will be a hearing on the petit
ions before the Commission in Lackawa-
nna Court House at Scranton on Friday.
February 25, according to notification re-
ceived by Dallas Borough Council this
week. . Council met in special session on
Wednesday night to discuss the proposed
change.
The move to substitute buses for the
street cars here is an outgrowth of plans
for the Luzerne by-pass. Part of that
highway will follow the traction com-
To Abandon Street Car Lines
Subsidiary Applies To State Commission At Same Time For
Permission Tg Establish Bus Line Between Dallas
arre; By-Pass Takes Right-Of-Way
ei eri
pany’s right-of-way into Luzerne Bor |
Asks Right
-
A
ough. Late last year negotiations for the
purchase of the right-of-way were con-
cluded and plans were started to begin
the by-pass this spring. ;
The company’s decision to change is
probably influenced further by discussion
of a proposed superchighway between
Wyoming Valley and Dallas which would
utilize parts of the traction company’s
right-of-way between Mt. Greenwood and
Dallas. : :
, Some’ years ago Dallas Council agreed
to permit the traction company to use
buses through Dallas on occasions when
street cars were unsuitable. The street
car service between Dallas and Harvey's
Lake was abandoned several years ago
and buses connect the two points.
If the Public Utility Commission will
grant the requests it is probable that the |
change to buses will be made within the
next few months.
Dallas Township
People Want Cop
Petition Court After Series
Of Thefts Show Need
For Prgtection
Fo
More than tyfenty five property own.
of Dallas Township, which has
time, police {officer, peti the court
this week to al the appointment of
a policeman in the township. A series
of thefts in recent months motivated the
request.
Kurt Anderson, who is constable in the
township, did excellent work in helping
to round up thieves responsible for the
burglaries recently but he does not re
ceive a salary which would warrant his
full time on police work.
Attorney Peter Jurchak represented the
petitioners and Judge John J. Aponick
fixed a date in April as the time for a
hearing. Most of the names on the peti-
tion were of people in the lower end of
the township.
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Board Considers
Building Program
Dallas Directors Will Meet
With Architect Next
Monday Night
on the Dallas High Scheol building with
a matching addition, such as was provid.
ed for when the building was constructed
in 1928, was discussed by school direc
tors at their meeting on Wednesday night.
L. V, Lacey, who prepared plans for
a new annex several years ago, was ask-
ed to meet with the board next Monday
night to consider the proposition further.
Finances of the board are in such shape
now that the plan for enlarging the high
school, to meet future needs, is entirely
possible.
The directors continued revision of fire
insurance schedules, dropping two poli
cies, one for $3,000 with Stanley Doll
and one for $3,500 with James Robinson.
Policies for $3,500 with George Gaertner
and $3,500 with William Niemeyer were
renewed, the latter for three years. Warr
dan Kunkle received two policies, one for
$3,000 and one for $3,500.
A discouraging report of tax returns
was submitted, showing continued failure
of taxpayers to respond to the urgent re-
quest for prompt payments. The board
authorized the secretary to apply to the
State again this year for emergency aid
which is being granted to school districts.
Rev. Howard’s Wife
Undergoes Operation
Mrs. John Howard, wife of the pastor
of the Free Methodist Churches of Dal-
las ‘and Trucksville, underwent an opera-
tion for mastoid in General Hospital on
Wednesday night. The operation was
successful and reports from the hospital
indicate her condition is favorable.
EQUINE ARISTOCRATS TO COMPETE
IN KIWANIANS’ SHOW NEXT MONTH
Interest in the horse show to be spon- |
sored by Mt. Greenwood Kiwanis Club | vents scheduled. The show will begin on
at 109th F. A. Armory, Kingston, on
ponies will compete in the variety of e-
Saturday evening, April 23, and will con.
April 23 and 24, was spreading swiftly | tinue on Sunday afternoon, April 24.
this week, practically assuring success of
the ambitious venture for the local civic
club.
Scores of entries from outstanding
owners are being received almost: daily,
attracted by the $500 worth of prizes |
Hunt
and
the Kiwanians have announced.
ers, jumpers, gaited saddle ‘horses
“A special feature will be the Horse
Show Charity Ball in the 109th F. A.
{ drillshed on Saturday night, after the e-
vents. Tommy Donlin’s orchestra will
| play for dancing.
The affair will probably be the most
ambitious horse" :show ever attempted in
this section. Ne
~
A plan to replace the wooden annex |
| not exist under our Constitution and our |
Court Kills Act
To Change Lines
Dallas Back In Old Sixth
District For Fall
Election
rt
“What gave promise. of being this sec-
tion's most exciting election in years col-
lapsed this week with abolishment of the
new Seventh Legislative District, a “‘ger-
rymander” created by the Reapportion-
ment Act of 1937 which the Dauphin
County Court declared unconstitutional
last Friday,
The decision, anticipated in last week's
Post, puts Dallas back in the old Sixth
Legislative District, with Courtdale,<Dal-
las Township, Duryea, Exeter, Eofty Fort
and Franklin and Jackson Towfships, part
of Kingston Borough, Kingston, Lake and
Lehman Townships, «Luzerne, Pringle,
Swoyerville, West*Pittston, West Wyo-
ming, and Wyoming =,
Attorney General Cha ‘es J. Margiotti
ruled the bill invalid when it was passed
and repeated his belief after Lester B.
Shoemaker, a taxpayer of Tullytown,
Bucks County, brought suit. He contend-
Borough Insists
Piedmont Is Not
In Kingston Twp. |
Blaze’s Paid Taxes To Court-
dale, Liquor Fees To :
Township
MAKING NEW SURVEY
A boundary dispute between King
ston Township and Courtdale Bor-
ough, considered settled by the Town-
ship following a survey by its engin-
eers several months ago, has been re-
vived by Courtdale Borough, which
has authorized engineers to make a
new survey in an attempt to disprove
the township's claims. :
The controversy centers about the
section along the main highway, just
this side of Luzerne, where several
good-sized buildings were constructed
recently. Late in January Kingston
Township officials announced that a
survey had indicated that Blazes
Club Piedmont and Prater’s gas sta-
tion are in Kingston Township, and
the new O’Malia building and a
neighboring structure in Courtdale
Borough. VY agi
Charging that” such disposition of the
case is not in’ agreement with old maps
in its possessign, Courtdale Borough Coun-
cil voted to'have James Langan survey
the lines. . The, Courtdale officials believe
Joseph Blaze’s place™is in the borough,
basing their claim upon the fact that the
taxes on that land have been paid to
Courtdale borough since its inception.
Courtdale was originally a part of
Kingston Township. It was known first
as Pringleville but was incorporated as
the Borough of Courtdale in 1897. Very
shortly after the turn of the century,
Courtdale paid $700 for the old toll-gate
road, with the idea of realizing income
from it, but a few weeks after the deal
had been consummated the State abolish.
ed toll-gates. After that Courtdale, in-
stead of receiving revenue from the old
road, had to pay the county a yearly a.
mount for maintenance.
It will be recalled that the old road
out of Luzerne made a much wider swing
than the present concrete highway. When
the new road was built the bed was laid
nearer to Toby’s Creek and a considerable
portion of Courtdale’s old road was ab-
andoned. When Blaze built his stone
ed that the act excluded from any legis
lative district six townships in Bucks |
County, two boroughs and a township |
in Chester, and threw the Dauphin Coun-
ty representation out’of line on the basis
of the city and country populaion. |
Judge W. C. Sheely, who handed down :
the decision said: “As a result of the |
failure to include territory in any dist- |
rict the inhabitants of that territory would !
|be deprived of the right to vote for a |
representative in the General Assembly |
and, to that extent, would be deprived of |
representation. That such condition can- |
form of government requires little or no |
discussion.” i
The Reapportionment Act, fought from |
its inception by The Post, would have |
combined the rural Republican commun. !
ities in the Western' half of Luzerne
County in one sprawling Legislative Dist
rict. A score or more prospective candi-
dates had hoped to be in the s¢ramble for
the G. O. P. nomination but the field pro-
bably will be cut considerably as a re-
sult of the court decision.
GOP Committeemen
Seeking Re-election
|
The three Republican committeemen of
Lehman Township, Stanley Culp, Middle
District; Nelson Rogers, Northeast Dist-
rict, and Joseph Zeleskey, South District,
will seek re-election at the May primar.
ies. All three are basing their candidac-
ies upon their past records particularly
their work in boosting the Republican
registration in Lehman township and al-
though there have been rumors of opposi-
tion it is expected the three will have
little difficulty in being re-elected.
‘Club Wants State
To Rebuild Spans
Two Bridges At Lake Badly
In Need Of Repairs,
Johnstone Says
7
Norman Johnstone, secretary of Wyo-
ming Valley Motor Club, this week ask.
ed the State Highway Department to re
build the Outlet and Inlet bridges at Har-
vey's Lake before heavy summer traffic
| begins. .
Mr. Johnstone suggested that wider ap
proaches be constructed at the Inlet, to
eliminate the traffic hazard which exists
at that point now. He recommended
plans for making the Outlet bridge safer
and more convenient.
At the same time the motor club urged
the State Highway Department to make
some provision for having Route 92 from
the end of the present concrete to Lute’s
house on the curve he filled in the spa=
between the old and the new roads &
be used as a parking ground. Traces 3
the old road are still visible, howevér.
Courtdale now maintarns that the ©
Blaze building occupies a part of the a
bandoned roadbed and is, therefore, ‘mn
the borough, not in Kingston Township.
The Blaze building has been assessed each
year by the county ‘as a Courtdale pro-
perty, the county having fixed the assess
ment after referring to old maps.
Aside from the taxes on the property, :
there is also the amount of the Piedmont
club’s liquor license and beer licenses at
stake. Although Blaze’s taxes have gone
to Courtdale, its license fees have been
returned to Kingston Township by the
State. If the resort is found to be in
Courtdale, its fees will be higher, since
boroughs receive a greater fee than do
townships.
A spokesman for Courtdale Borough
said this week he expects to see the new
survey finished in about two weeks, If
that survey indicates that Kingston Town-
ship’s claims to Blaze’s and Prater’s are
not valid Courtdale will resort to court
action to establish the line definitely and
sue for license fees already received by
Kingston Township.
On the other hand, if Courtdale can-
not establish its claims, Kingston Town-
ship may sue for taxes which have been
paid by mistake to the borough.
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THE LOW DOWN
from
HICKORY GROVE
Down on our corner we got a
nice little drug store—with a pee-
wee P. O. in the back—and the fel
Ter who runs it, we call him Dock,
and he is around 60 and a pleasant
kind of party.
And the reason I am tellin’ about
him is because he is one person who
is not squawkin' about big business
eating him alive but he is goin’ ahead
and selling wisk-brooms and sodas
and lip-stick and stamps—and I rec
kon some drugs, maybe.
Dock does not have a stomach ache
about the chain stores, etc., and he
is makin’ money and selling our fam.
ily a new kind of toothbrush every
time we go in and he has 3 or 5
clerks—and is not gloomy—so we all -
go back.
But he says the woods is full of
meddlers, like little business versus
big business, and all kinds who don’t
+know sour apples—and especially A
down there on the Potomac. But b =
says it is good for business. F
is out of head-ache powders half
time.
Yours with the lov
JO SERR
! Corners this Spring.