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THE POST'S CIVIC PROGRAM
1. A modern concrete highway leading from Dallas and con-
necting 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 fire protection.
4. Sanitary sewage systems for local towns.
5. A centralized police force.
6. A consolidated high school eventually, and better co-oper-
ation between those that now exist.
7. Complete elimination of politics from local school affairs.
8. Construction of more sidewalks.
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~ FROM OUR CONGRESSMAN
J. HAROLD-FLANNERY
‘The amendment to impose a tax of
¢ a gallon on fuel oil offered by the
writer was defeated in the House
Jast week. The opposition represented
a coalition of oil interests and pro-
ducers as well as consumers and was
esult of thorough and intense pro-
paganda on behalf of some of the
large companies operating particularly
along the Atlantic seaboard. During
e course of the debate it was dis
losed that letters and pamphlets had
been sent to household consumers of
fuel oil which purported to show the
serious effect such a tax would have.
~ Among other things it was alleged.
(1) You face the possible loss of
several hundred dollars which re:
presents the value at present of your
oil burner equipment.
\ (2) You would be taxed as a user
‘of fuel oil while your next door
“neighbor who burns coal would go
~ untaxed.
*(3) It might force you to return
to the burning of coal with all of the
manual labor involved in shovelling.
“handling of ashes, and other incon-
eniences.”
~ Each recipient of this infornation
was urged to contact immediately his
Representative and as a result, an
“avalanche of mail in opposition of the |
~ proposal descended upon the Mem-
bers. This, combined with the efforts
of those Congressmen from the oil
producing areas throughout the Na-
tion, brought about the result. The
proposed Amendment, however, ser
ved the purpose of bringing before
Congress the danger of diminishing
oil reserves and the necessity for con- |
servation.
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~The flow of “free seed” letters is
beginning again, but indications are
that there will be fewer than last
year. For 15 years the U. S. Depart-
ment of Agriculture has been trying
to convince 130,000,000 people that
it has no free seeds or plants. Yet
each year, as spring approaches,
thousands of requests pour in from
farms, suburbs and penthouses. All
writers meet disappointment. The
Department has no plants or seeds
for sale either.
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The bill providing for an eight
billion dollar transcontinental super-
highway project, which was intro-
duced by Senator Bulkley, has little
chance of passage this session. It has
been transferred from the Committee
on Banking and Currency to the
Committee on Postoffices and Post
roads, and Senator McKeillar, Chair-
of this committee would rather have
a commission study the subject be-
fore turning it over for action by
Congress.
The Senate and House Committees
on Banking and Currency have before
then companion bills regulating bank
holding companies. The bills are
sponsored by Senator Giass of Vir
ginia and Rep. Steagall of Alabama.
by Administration leaders. At the
same time, the Senate Banking and
Currency Committee has favorably
reported a bill regulating “over the
counter” operations of brokers, with
Federal, State and municipal securit-
Enactment at this session is predicted)
building it has needed so long.
ture.
school district.
pal pocket into another.
would produce revenue.
hire a full-time policeman.
controversy is still undecided.
energy being spent on argument.
Township. »
hourly rate,
A COMMUNITY BUILDING
If Dallas school board proceeds with its plans
to abandon the old frame building that action may
give the borough a chance to get the community
Although it is an old building, the frame school
was exceptionally well-built and could probably
be remodelled to serve as a town hall at a cost
I considerably less than that of building a new struc-
Theoretically, the purchase of that building by
the borough would cost the taxpayers nothing, since
they have already paid for it once through the
The transaction would be merely
a matter of moving tax revenue from one munici-
Alterations would, of
course, necessitate an expenditure by. the council,
but there is always the possibility that the building
CENTRALIZATION IS THE SOLUTION
The good people of Dallas Township appar-
ently are divided in their opinions of the plan to
As this is written the
We deplore the
We wish that
energy were being expended in behalf of another
suggestion made here frequently—the establishment
of a consolidated, centralized police department for
Dallas Borough, Dallas Township and Kingston
For twenty-five cents a month per taxable these
three communities could have a central headquart-
ers, a radio cruiser car to patrol byways at night,
three policemen, working on eight-hour shifts so
there would be protection twenty four hours of
the day, and a reserve corps of special policemen
to be called during peak traffic hours in the sum-
mer or on other occasions and to be paid at an
EDITORIALS
Dallas Borough now budgets about $1,200 for
police expenses. One thousand dollars of that is the
salary of the full-time chief of police. The other
$200 is spent for special policemen. The borough
gets full value for the money it spends. There is
no complaint’ there. Our argument is that $1,200
worth of police protection is not adequate for a
town with the size and ambitions of Dallas,
radio, that
In the first place there is no police station.
We'll wager that fifty per cent of the residents of
Dallas wouldn't know how to summon a policeman
if they needed one, without getting advice from
some other person.
In! theory, Chief Leonard O'Kane is on duty
24 hours a day. Since a man must sleep sometime
and is entitled to occasional relaxation there are
times when the borough’s system of police protection
disappears entirely. There are other times when,
confronted by the natural law that a man cannot
be in two places at the same time, Chief O'Kane
has to postpone answering important calls because
he is involved on some other urgent assignment.
borhood.
The situation in Kingston Township and Dal-
las Township, both of which have more residents
and homes than Dallas, is even worse. There there
are nd full-time policemen and residents are com-
pelled to rely upon their constables, whose duties
are only vaguely prescribed, or the State Motor
Police at Kingston.
Another editorial on this page discusses the
possibility of the borough securing the old frame
school house! on Huntsville Street as a community
Building. If that should be done the second floor
might be changed into an apartment for a chief
of police, such as is part of the Harvey's Lake com-
munity building. That would mean that the chief
would be available most of the time to take calls.
The chief should recéive, beside his living quarters,
a minimum salary of $125 a month. He should be
a man of character and qualifications high enough
to enable; him to direct the system of police pro-
tection in the three townships.
long.
There should be two additional policemen at
salaries of about’ $100 a month, one to work from
4 p. m. to midnight, the other to be on duty from
midnight to 8 a. m. The first duty of these men
should be to patrol sideroads (the motor police pa-
trol most of the main roads).
they should have a police cruiser, equipped with
For that purpose
radio to be tuned in to the Wilkes-
Barre police sending station.
The system might work this way. A resident
is awakened at midnight by a howling dog. The
irate and sleepy citizen phones the police station.
The chief answers and takes the message.
chief immediately calls ‘Wilkes-Barre police, dic-
tates the message.
police broadcast the instructions. The cruiser car
picks up the message, steps on the gas, wheels up
in front: of the irate citizens home, finds the dog,
arouses its owners and restores peace to the neigh-
The
Over their radio, Wilkes-Barre
Such a case would be typical of the average
“nuisance case” handled by policemen.
vantages of having such a system functioning, ready
for the less frequent emergencies which involve
threats to property or life, is obvious.
nary circumstances not more than five minutes
should elapse between the time the citizen tele-
phones for the police and the time the cruiser car
is on the way to his home.
The ad-
Under ordi-
We question that any one of the three com-
munities can afford adequate police protection alone
now. The logical, sensible, common-sense solution
is consolidation of local police agencies. We hope
to see Dallas council or the supervisors in either
of the townships, investigating such a plan before
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ALL IN A WEEK
Als the public debt touched a new high of $37,
632,120,451, into the Senate hopper was dropped
a bill — for the relief of Charles McCarthy.
If you are a member of the Knic-
kerbocker, New York Yacht, Essex
Fox Hounds, Turf and Field, Rac
quet and Tennis and River Clubs of
New York, then you are sure to be
listed in the Social Register, sure to
be treated with more courtesy and
consideration than, say, a Bowery
bum or a common thief.
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Here's what happened one day
last week to a member of all these
swank clubs when he entered a police
station in a typical East Side slum
neighborhood. “Inside the station
house a group of Bowery derelicts
arrested on vagrancy and drunken-
ness charges was herded away the
desk and into the back room,” accord-
ing to the Times, while our prominent
clubman, wearing a dark overcoat
with a velvet collar and a pearl gray
fedora hat, “which he removed when
he entered the station house,” was
required to answer certain questions
required of him by the law.
* * *
Lieutenant Simon P. Breen, a vop-
per who knows his place, his duty,
and probably his Gilbert and Sulliven
—*‘a policeman’s lot is not a happy
one’—asked if the gentleman had
been searched in accordance with
police regulations. Lieutenant Graf-
necker, into whose custody our swell
friend had been given, appeared,
said the Times, “surprised.” The or-
der was then given to give a vulgar
frisking to a man who had received
his sheepskin from Harvard back in
the genteel day of 1911. “Have you
any knives?” he was asked. This
crude question was met with a
smile, a very upper class smile, to be
sure.
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Whoever heard of asking a Wall
Street broker if he had any lethal
weapons on his person? Who would
ever think of asking a former pres
ident of the Stock Exchange, a Mor-
gan broker and a brother of a Mor-
gan partner, if he packed a rod, or
had a Sicilian’s dagger up his sleeve?
I am sorry to say the Times, which
must stick to strict truth in its re
porting, could only record that Rich-
ard Whitney's answer to this police-
ies exempt from said regulation.
man’s naive question was in the ne-
RIVES
MATTHEWS
gative. Mr. Whitney could have lieved him of his fountain pen.
given the police a much more en- = X=
lightening answer. “We don’t need When the ordeal of searching Mr.
guns or knives in Wall Stredt. Such Whitney's pockets was over, an or-
methods are crude. They went out deal which seems to have been pain-
of fashion with the James brothers, ful for our class-conscious police and
years ago.” And then the police
should have frisked the well tailored
person of Richard Whitney and re-
Breen stood up behind his desk, as
all should
gentlemanly policemen
GOOD BYE, BARREL!
Mr. Whitney as well, Lieutenant’
when dealing with us taxpayers, and
shook hands with the prisoner. “Mr.
Whitney,” he said, “I'm sorry to see
» you in this trouble, and wish you the
best! of luck.”
Lieutenant Breen did not say just
how many years behind bars that ex-
pression of his good will covered, but
went on to say, in front of reporters,
“The Whitneys have always had a
good name.” “Thank you again,”
Mr. Whitney repeated, always the
perfect, gentleman.
Bail was then arranged for our
highclass friend, after which he drove
to his home in the fashionable seven-
ties. There, perfectly poised before
what is in English law, every man’s
castle, he submitted to the posing of
pictures, but requested press phato-
graphers not too snap his wife, who
came to the door to meet him. You
see, a gentleman's wife is a lady, and
her picture never appears in a news-
paper, except on the society page. It’s
alright for papers. They're not ladies,
s0 no one ever bothers to ask them
whether they’d mind being snapped
when tragedy enters their lives. But
with a lady, it’s different.
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Meanwhile Wall Street men froth-
ed and fumed. Why did he have to
misappropriate the funds of the New
York Yachy Club, Manhattan's swan-
kest club, of which he was treasurer?
Surely there are still enough widows
and orphans left to prey upon . They
Street. Why didn’t he pick on them,
instead of acting like a perfect boun-
der, betraying tthe trust of his fellow
yachtsmen?
This much can be said for the men
of Wall Street, When they discovered
that Richard Whitney, five times
president of the Stock Exchange, was]. . .
a crook, they didn’t try to hush it up.
Maybe, because of the SEC, they
couldn't, but to the men of Wall
Street, as far as the record goes, goes
the credit for turning Whitney over
to the police. The papers headlined
it as a million dollar swindle, but in
the panelled board rooms of high fin-
ance, the Whitney case will always
be knows as a breach of etiquette.
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BROADWAY
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First sign of Spring is always the
flower show at Grand Central Pal-
ace, where the displays range from a
lonely pansy in a finger-bowl to land-
scaped lawns complete with hedges
and trees and houses.
Always, the roses seem to be most
popular with the visitors, and this
year’s sensation was called “Queen
Mary” for no particular reason we
could discover.
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Speaking of sensations, this column
bows with awe and reverence before
the intelligence of the Motion Pic-
ture Academy in selecting Spencer
Tracy and Louise Rainer as outstand-
ing performers of 1937. We—ahem!
picked them here two months ago.
Remember? Aw, say you do, any-
way.
Local Gleanings: Mrs. William
Rose closes her apartment and goes to
Hollywood (all right, call her Fannie
Brice then) . . . Gerty Niesen sails
on the Paris for Paris, France, after
collecting cheers and checks at Broad-
way supper spots . . . Nancy Garner
singing at a Bronx nightery says she’s
kin to John N. Garner of Texas and
Washington, D. C. . . . Mrs. Mac-
Arthur, who does theatricals under
her maiden name of Helen Hayes,
writes home to say lots of towns have
sold out all the seats in the opera
house before the performance of her
play “Victoria Regina” . . . It’s about
Queen Victoria of England, King
George's great grandma . . . She was
a Wettin from out Kensington Way
. . . Married that Albert What-you-
call-him from Germany and he took
her name but George's Pa changed
it to Windsor . . . Georges brother
married that girl from Baltimore.
Now that Mr. Whitney of the
Stock Exchange is out on bail local
wits are calling that best seller
“America’s First Fifty-nine Families”.
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Our favorite sausage firm is the
“Katz-Fuhr Sausage Casing Com-
pany. /
ale
Down in Greenwich village is “Ye
Olde Junk Shoppe” and a place on
Seventh Avenue is run by “Ann
Teek™ and sells—yep, you're right.
ume mee
Funniest Sights On The Stem: Ac-
tors who can discard their costumes
and make-up when the show is over
but have! to keep their “stage” hair-
cuts . .. as for instance Wallace
Ford and young Broderick from “Of
Mice and Men’.
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The new superliner, “Queen Eliz-
abeth”, had to buy the rights to that
name from an excursion boat, which
will call itself the Queen Elizabeth
Second, which is what the present
Queen really is.
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To show that columnists are some-
times—well, sometimes—wrong, one
New York daily diarist listed Ellery
have always been five game In Wl Queen, the mystery writer, as having
graduated from N. Y. U. in 1926.
It happens that Ellery is two people,
neither of them named Ellery or
Queen.
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They Do Say . . . that Sally Rand
is going to India . . . that Beatrice
Lillie is sailing for London . . . that
Hope Hampton's going to Hollywood
and that Sylvia Sidney, who acts
so coy about having her picture taken
in night clubs, is going tb get mar-
ried.
—Qr—
In case you were figuring on com-
ing here for the fair next year they
tell us 43,217 will be able to sit down
all at once to meals in the various
restaurants on the grounds, and we
bet 43,200 of them will wonder why
in heck it takes so long to get served.
—The BroadwayParade
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