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The Dallas Post ?
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HOWELL E: REES........amussminsminib Managing Editor
A modern concrete highway
A centralized police force.
ation between those that now exist.
General Manager
THE POST'S CIVIC PROGRAM
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.
6. A consolidated high school eventually, and better co-oper-
7. Complete elimination of politics from local school affairs.
8. Construction of more sidewalks.
leading from Dallas and con-
The
MAIL BAG
&
Editor:
Every third man that goes out of
‘my store has a government check for
‘some reason or other— WPA allott-
‘ment, conservation, rehabilitation,
It is getting to be a joke even
to those who receive the checks?
‘What will be the end of it all?
According to Senator Byrd of Vir-
ginia, Federal expenditures (after de-
‘duction of the soldiers’ bonus) for
e fiscal year ending July 1, 1938,
‘will be $600,000,000 greater than the
‘previous fiscal year. Moreover, an-
nual Federal expenditures have dou-
‘bled and nearly tripled in the last
decade. They are currently in the
neighborhood of eight million dollars.
I know that we must spend money
prevent unemployed people from
starving, but don’t any of our lead-
‘ers know of a way to make such aw-
ful spending unnecessary? It is
frightening to me?
BE. H.
ditor:
Well, it was a wide open primary.
So wide, in fact, that some of the
‘gaps will never be closed.
George L.
The horse and mule live thirty years
“And nothing know of wine and beers.
The goat and sheep at twenty die
And never taste of Scotch or Rye.
The cow drinks water by the ton
And at eighteen is’ mostly done.
The dog at fifteen cashes in
Without the aid of rum or gin.
The cat in milk and water soaks
And then in twelve short years it
~~ croaks.
The modest, sober, dry-bone hen
Lays eggs for nogs, then dies at ten.
“All lower animals are curst
Because they lack a liquor thirst.
“All animals are strictly dry
‘They! sinless live and swiftly die.
But sinful, ginful, rum-soaked men,
Survive for three-score years and ten.
N. I
THE LOW DOWN
from
HICKORY GROVE
I was skimming through the
paper the other day and I saw
where out there on ‘the Coast,
they had an election and those
web-feet there, voted against
going into pardners with the
Govt., in the power business.
So it looks like it is not just
in Tennessee that the Govt. has
its hands full. And if the folks
out there in Oregon do not want
the power I guess it is another
~ dead horse.
- You take an ordinary person
and let him get into a jam, and
the law will grab him till he
straightens things out; and if the
Goxt. gets itself into a jack-pot,
and runs into debt—head over
~ heels—it should be the same.
And the geezers we elect to
office, if they had to make up
the loss on stuff they promote,
but which does not pan out, we
© could breathe easier. And if
"these persons do not have the
cash to make up the deficit, they
could work it out, at so much per
day.
Some kinds of business, they
may not be so grand and rosy
right now, but boy, the deficit
business, it is booming.
Yours, with the low down,
JO SERRA.
. know of no sound reason why it should be delayed any longer.
EDITORIALS
BROKEN PROMISES — BROKEN SPRINGS
It would be fitting if the Luzerne by-pass were paved with broken
promises, instead of concrete. @
If all the promises which have been broken since the plan for the by-
pass was conceived were gathered together they would fill Toby's Creek
and remove the! necessity for the bridge which is the latest reason for delay.
The ‘history of the Luzerne by-pass, like the history of the Tunkhan-
nock-Dallas highway, is littered with broken promises. Every time some
politician is cornered he wiggles away by making another promise and then,
after a decent interval, some new development is discovered to delay the
project.
The officials who have dilly-dallied over the by-pass for so many years
should have been embarrassed Saturday when the caravan of out-of-state
guests, here to seet our “‘fine roads and scenic wonders,” had to pound and
jounce and bump their way over the present highway into Luzerne. We
can imagine what impressions those visitors got of the entrance to “fair
Wyoming Valley.”
For years, officials hid behind the skirts of Luzerne merchants but
those gentlemen can no longer be blamed for delaying the by-pass. They
are in complete agreement with the Back Mountain’ motorists. They
recognize the need for the highway. They refuse to be the fall guys any
more for the suave politicians.
There is no longer any organized opposition to the by-pass. We
The of-
ficials who are putting other, less important road projects ahead of the by-
pass are playing with fire. They can expect little support here when next
they appeal to the voters.
TO THE LEFT, MISTER. LA FOLLETTE
Governor LaFollette of Wisconsin, who has crystallized the talk of a
third party in his new National Progressive movement, cannot look to the
history of third parties in this country for much encouragement. In the
defunct Locofocos, the Free Soilers, the North Americans, the Blue Light
Federalists, and the Anti-Masons, all important movements in their time,
Governor LaFollette will discern the usual fate of American third parties.
The last third party drive that got anywhere at all was that of 1924,
when the senior LaFollette ran for President and polled a total of 5,000,000
votes out of 30,000,000 cast. But the ticket received the electoral vote of
only one state, Wisconsin. Before that Theodore Roosevelt led the “Bull
Moose” revolt and despite his immense popularity and the fact that he had
been President he succeeded only in taking enough of the Republican’ vote
to elect Wilson and to leave Taft the worst beaten incumbent in Ameri-
can history.
The only chance for Governor LaFollette’s party to replace one of the
older parties appears in [the gap between the liberals and the conservatives
in both the Republican and Democratic parties. There are many thousands
ership of the Republican party or the Roosevelt leadership of the Demo-
cratic party. It is obvious, though, that Governor LaFollette’s platform
will not appeal as much to these middle-of-the- roaders as it will to the
semi-radicals who are largely in accord with left wing views.
If Governor LaFollette fails to impress this bloc of independent voters
they may form the nucleus of a new coalition between Republicans and
orthodox Democrats for the purpose of defeating the New Deal and to
elect, if not a Republican, a. conservative Democrat. Even so strong a Re-
publican spokesman as Mark Sullivan has given his approval to this course.
ELEVEN YEARS AGO
Tomorrow, the day scheduled for the tests of the model airplanes which
have been built by local boys and girls as part of the local observance of
Air Mail Week, will be the eleventh anniversary of Col. Charles A. Lind-
bergh’s historic flight across the Atlantic. It is fitting that the contest to
interest boys and girls in aviation should mark such an occasion.
Lindbergh began his flight to glory on May 21, 1927. Aviation was
only 23 years old then. Air mail and transport service were just getting
started. Long trips across open water were high adventure.
Today, just 11 years later, the trans-oceanic airlanes are almost as
criss-cross on the ‘map as the regular steamer channels. The latest trail to
have been blazed is that from San Francisco to Hong Kong, a distance of
8,747.5 miles, almost entirely over water. In 1938 the wings of Lindbergh's
plane cast their shadows trom Bangor, Maine, to Honolulu and from the
Canal Zone to China.
RAILROADS BOOST PENNSYLVANIA
Pennsylvania ranked first in the benefits received from the expendi-
tures of the railroads in 1937 for materials, supplies, fuel, new equipment
and payrolls, it is revealed in a special ‘study which has been completed by
the Bureau of Railway Economics of the Association of American Rail
roads.
Railway purchases in Pennsylvania last year totaled $210,377,043, the
report shows. Of this sum, $165,135,197 was spent for materials, supplies
and fuel. while $45,241, 846 went for new equipment (not including that
built in company shops). These purchases were made in 1,074 towns and
cities located in all of the 67 counties of the state.
Wages paid to railway employes in Pennsylvania during 1937 amounted
to $220,686,852. $1,133,361,468 for the more than 70,000 different items
which they use. Materials, supplies and fuel cost $966,383,000, and ex-
penditures for all new equipment (except that constructed in railway shops)
totaled $166,978,468. More than 12,000 towns and cities located in 2,638
of the 3,072 counties of the United States derived direct benefits from
this large volume of railroad buying.
In 1937, the country’s raial carriers also distributed $1,983,990,485 in
of voters today who cannot get what they want from the reactionary lead-
wages to their employes, the report says.
When tulips dip their withered
pennons and buds swell on the rose
bush, it’s time to think of June and
all the men and maids who'll troop
before license clearks to signify their
intentions to make it legal.
gs
June is the halcyon time of the
year for a wedding. Nature itself
seems at its loveliest at what must al-
ways be a lovely time of the year in
any man or woman's life, so one must
beware the conspiracy in which na-
ture and good friends and kin so hap-
pily join. If marriage could always
be like the mouth of June, then it
would, indeed, be an ideal state.
——
I, therefore, am glad that I married
in December. Dame Nature then’ was
no lovely creature and there were no
smiles breaking out on her icy face.
It was not easy, and no fun, to en
dure the below freezing temperature
of that night, and I think there was
something symbolic in the air. In
June the symbols are all so pretty, so
idealistic and so often unreal.
—O0—
This June, because it is a happy
month and because so many of us are
creatures of habit, there will be many
marriages. : I wonder, as most of ue
wonder these days, how many of them
will last, and as I'give in to this com-
mon wonder I realize it is bad, and
symptomatic of our time, that there
should be any reason for any such
qualms. .
Eo
The plain facts are, as Mrs. Roose-
velt recently pointed out, people these
days recognize divorce as a common
occurrence.
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While my objections to divorce
are not the same as those advanced
by rank and file Roman Catholics,
they are, nevertheless, just as strong.
I feel that many a marriage to be
performed next month would not be
dissolved five months hence if con-
tracting parties did not feel that they
could escape the hardships to which
marriage sometimes leads by trotting
off to Reno at the first sign of trou-
ble.
ns
Sticking to anything always de
mands a certain amount of character.
It takes a lot of guts for a prize fight-
RIVES
MATTHEWS
er to stand up to a slugger who is
bound to knock him out sometime
after the tenth round, and I feel sure
there have been many fighters who
would gladly have thrown in the
sponge if it were not for the fact that
the cash customers would have jeered.
gp
In the old days people who got di-
virces had to want them bad enough
to be willing to put up with the jeer
ing. But today we don’t jeer and
indulge in catcalls. We cheer—at
least some people did—when a Wally
Simpson discards one meal ticket for
a better one. Few people in what is
called society these days refuse to
know a woman who changes her hus-
bands as often as she changes her hat
styles, providing, of course, her
changes are always for the better fi
nancially.
THE BUTTERFLY CHASER
It seems to me that if every young
couple planning to marry next month
would take a little time before they
tie the fatal knot and would devote
it to writing down for the record
just how unhappy, unsatisfied and
worthless they felt before they found
each other, such a record, if preserv-
ed, would be worth reading in those
times of stress which inevitably arise
between married couples or partners
in business or roommates.
pe
And then, just before every anni-
versary, if they'd repeat the process
and ask themselves just what they've
gained as individuals—not as a couple
—1I think they'd realize how much
better off they are as a result of mar-
riage. I think too few of us count
our blessings often enough and that
too many of us are like some people
I know who keep on changing their
doctors and medicines in pursuit of an
evanescent cure.
—_——
The trouble with so many marriag-
es today is that we not only expect to
abandon them as soon as they fail to
please but that we also exect more
from marriage than any marriage
ever had to offer. I fear this last is
due largely to the scribblings of poets
who never married and to spinsters
whose love life never progressed be-
yond the prom program stage. This
type of matrimonial mythology has
been considerably furthered in recent
years by the patchouli-sweet moralists
of Hollywood. If one could only real
ize that the happy ending does not
occur when four lips meet like rubber
gaskets in the fillums but only in re
trospect, generally at the end of a
phase of life, or at the end of life it-
self, then, it seems to me, there would
be more happiness in this world, more
happiness in marriage, and fewer of
those disallusioned souls who took the
easy way out.
—),
The flowers of June are promises
of fruit to be garnered. June promis-
es so much that worm and sun and
drought can kill. That's why I'm glad
Iimarried in December. I could look
forward to Spring and Summer. I
think marriages made in the spirit of
December are * best. Beware, you
brides of June.
CITY
SYMPHONY
By Edna Bleg
Oliver Blair is Philadelphia’s best
known funeral home. Years ago the
original owner didn’t believe in news-
paper advertising. So that the peo-
ple of Philadelphia might know some-
thing about his business. Mir. Blair
converted part of his establishment in-
to a large music hall and brought
some of the best artists in the coun-
try to this city. Invitations were is-
sued far and wide and Mr Blair's
music hall became one of Philadel
i phia’s highlights. After the concerts,
which hundreds attended, tours were
made of the building. Today there
are no concerts but there are other
features of this famous place which
are] unique even today. For instance,
many out of town people come tc
Philadelphia to bury their dead, and
in the Blair establishment it is pos
sible to rent an apartment where the
family can live until after the funeral.
—_——
All the good plays seem to come tc
Philadelphia in the late Sprisg, after
they have had successful runs on
Broadway. This week we have had
Ruth Gordon in “The Doll's House”
and next week we are to enjoy “The
Star Wagon” with Burgess Meredith
and Lilian Gish. This is Maxwell
Anderson’s new play, which has been
running in New York since Septem-
ber. Burgess Meredith, in my hum-
| ble opinion, is the best actor on the
stage today and, of course, Lilian
Gish needs no advance publicity.
—(—
The Mayor of Philadelphia is for-
ever getting new ideas. Sometimes
they work, sometimes they don’t. He
thought it would be a fine idea tc
give the horses, which the mounted
policemen use, two weeks vacation
off the city streets. No one disputed
His Honor and some of the horses
were given a two week's vacation on
a nearby farm. As an experiment
they were taken to a local farm and
permitted to graze in open pastures.
Everything went alright the first day,
the second day one of the horses
pushed his nose too hard against a
fence and the fence fell down. Evi
dently this was just what the horses
were waiting for, for immediately,
they all raced back to their stable, not
very many miles away. They were
not in favor of the Mayor's splendid
idea or was it because the missed all
the extra sugar and apples they get
from their admirers?
—_O—
The army encampment at the Cam-
den airport has been creating quite a
stir. We are accustomed to plenty
of activity at this local airport, and
T. W. A. planes are always very
is crowded with army planes, as it
has been for several weeks now, we
are anxious to know what it is all
about. The morning commuters see
the army men busy in their camp and
the roar of the planes is heard every
day overhead but we havent heard
yet when the sham attack of the city
is to be made. Funny how we all
hate talk of war but let there be any
army activity and we are as inter-
ested as any school child. We em-
phatically do not want war, but how
we love the roll of drums and the
sound of marching feet. Strange, isn’t
it?
A THOUGHT
FOR THIS WEEK
Politics I conceive to be noth-
ing more than the science of the
ordered progress of society along
the lines of greatest usefulness
and convenience to itself.
WOODROW WILSON
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