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The Dallas Post
Established 1889
A Liberal, Independent Newspaper Published Every Fridey
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HOWARD W. RISLEY..
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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. i
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. ol
5. A centralized police force. Hh
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. fa
8. Construction of more sidewalks. i)
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inst the bombing of open cities in
ring the World War, enemy
omen and children were killed by
tion, malnutrition and disease,
uced by effective blockades. At
nt they are being slaughtered by
bs. I fail to see the difference.
anything, the second method is
nore merciful, for it kills quickly.
is war. An enemy must be at-
cked, demoralized, weakened and
nihilated. The term enemy em-
not only those who fight in
es, but also those, including wo-
lines. >
NL. AT,
bunking many tall tales about ani-
Is, speaks of the “impossibility”
a snake sucking milk from a cow.
‘am pretty much of a cynic and I
suppose I should hesitate to credit
ch a thing had I not witnessed it.
: Many years ago one of my tasks
was to go to the pasture for our cow
g One
y I noticed a snake fastened to her
r; I could scarcely believe my
‘eyes, so I went close enough to make
ure there was no doubt and at the
amie time ready to make a quick get
way, as I was dreadfully afraid of
I ran all the way home to tell fa
er, but he was not at all excited.
‘He merely asked me to go back for
the cotv, and said if the snake was
taking its supper to get a stick
tap it and that it would loose and
run away and not harm me. I went
ack, but the cow met me part way,
ree of the snake. s
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THE LOW DOWN
Le from
HICKORY GROVE
Cur latest slogan—lending and
spending—sounds great. But
from the little I savvy about it,
I .do not know any place where
you can go broke quicker, than
by lending—except it is spend-
ing.
© Our old ideas of saving 10
cents for a rainy day, is now
next to illegal. And for our old
‘age, we are to lean on Social
Security. Slogans are our dish.
Maybe you have an off-spring
or 2 around the house, and they
do some goofy things and get in-
to jams and one thing and an-
other, and you almost think they
the hopeless, sometimes. But
they are amateurs when it comes
to comparin’ ‘em to what is go-
ing on under the big tent at
Wash.
Things that most people want
done down there, they will not
do it. And things you do not
want ‘em to do—it is vice versa.
And if you have ever been on a
farm, I do not need to explain to
you about a mule.
History used to be a sort of
dry subject, but boy, present
day doings when they get into
the book, they will make Walt
Disney hustle.
Yours, with the low down,
JO SERRA.
and China is unwarranted. |
n and children who help behind
5 -WEeLcoME To THE ScHOOL
The Post is happy to invite the women of this section to another free
moving picture cooking school. \
At least 1,000 women enjoyed our first school last year. We have
- never promoted any community affair which resulted in as many compli
ments. We expect to see again all those women who asked us to conduct
another school and we hope, too, to meet many new visitors who have
heard of the pleasant success of last year’s event. :
We think such a school as this is of vital importance in a community.
Managing a home is a difficult and responsible job—perhaps the biggest of
all jobs. ' It is right, then, that housewives who strive to do their jobs better
should have an opportunity to inspect the methods and machinery which
have been devised especially for them. Men keep abreast of developments
in their fields. Women can profit by the same procedure.
Our cooking school, with its full-length moving picture, is as pleasant
as a school can be, and we are sure those women who set aside one after-
noon next week for the school will have an enjoyable as well as a profitable
time.
DiAL "PHONES AT NOXEN
The installation of dial phones
phone Co. is another evidence of the
at Noxen by Commonwealth Tele-
progressiveness of the local utility.
The company’s eagerness to please its subscribers and its energy in
maintaining a high standard of service explains the pleasant relations it
‘enjoys with its customers.
This latest improvement will benefit Dallas business men, as well as
Noxen' subscribers, for the toll charge will be abandoned some time next
month between Noxen and Dallas.
~ We thank the company and its
local manager, Michael Kuchta, for
their forward-looking, thoughtful policies.
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A THANKLESS JoB
We have a very deep respect for any member of a school board because
we have learned that his exacting job is one of the most thankless in the
world. Only a man or woman who
has a real desire to be of service to
his or her community would accept the position. ;
The communities about Dallas are exceptionally fortunate in having
directors who are probably better than the rule. No breath of scandal,
ON BOARD S. S. HARPOON:
Exactly seven sailing days after leav-
ing Philadelphia, we nosed in behind
Cristobal’s breakwater and dropped
anchor for the night. It was a strange
feeling to feel calm water beneath us
and no vibrations from our power
plant. Around us flashed a ring of
lights and like a huge ruby, set in
prongs of diamonds, one advertising
sign blinked off and on all night long. .
Whether it hawked a well known
brand of cigarettes or a night club,
we never learned, because we had ar-
rived too late to go ashore.
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We were up at'dawn the next
morning so as not to miss one minute
of a procedure which, since 1920, has
been saving ships the long dangerous
and expensive journey around South
America. As the sun slowly shooed
away the veils of mist which clung
reluctantly over ships at anchor and
for a time completely hid Panama's
strange, pyramid-like mountains, there
was gradually unfolded before our
eyes a scene so mysterious and beau-
tiful and so unlike anything I had
ever seen before that for a compari
son-I was forced to search my mem-
ory of fantasies for one, and came
up, finally, with a vague feeling that
I had seen all this before in some
novel by Ryder Haggard. Does any-
one ever read him today?
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Then came trim
launches from shore, carrying Canal
Zone doctors to look for pestiferous
passengers. Finding none on our
ship, our yellow flag went down, and
then another launch, carrying a Canal
pilot with a crew of smart dark boys
from Jamaica, to handle the ropes,
came aboard. Along with a small
feeder ship of the French Line, the
Trois Isles, we entered the first lock.
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It took us about four hours to
make the forty-four mile transit.
Each Jock, three up on the Atlantic
side, and four down on the Pacific,
took ten minutes. After passing
through an amazing beautiful lake,
dotted with jungle covered islands,
the Canal becomes a narrow ditch
shortly after passing Barro Colorado
Island, where there is a government
station devoted to the study of trop-
ical diseases. It is a rzminder to all
of those who pass that without doc-
tors, engineers would never have been
able to make the miracle of Panama
possible.
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Once in the ditch, its walls rise
higher and higher, and then the Canal
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EDITORIALS
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no intimation of skulduggery, no hint of the nauseous tactics employed by
a few boards in nearby sections blackens the record of the directors of
Dallas borough or the township, Kingston, Lehman, Lake, Monroe, Noxen
or Jackson Townships.
Occasionally our directors make the newspapers with their political
squabbles but these are little more than evidences of a healthy American
democracy, which permits every man to have his opinion and fight for it.
Such tempests in teapots are unfortunate, but they are human, and they
blow over usually as suddenly as they come up. i
Most of the time the school board member has little to relieve the dull
monotony of the regular meeting. At first he may! find some enjoyment
. in the novelty of running a school district but his enthusiasm is soon checked
by the realization that the common sense principles he uses freely in his
own successful business are restricted by volumes of laws which have been
accumulating since the first public school, was established.
He discovers that the solicitor is about the most valuable man in the
school organization, or should be. Everything must be done a certain’ way.
Certain amounts cannot be spent without soliciting bids first. Every penny
must be budgeted and once appropriated to a certain account must not be
spent for any other account until a certain time has passed. Complicated
regulations must be observed if the district'is to receive the customary aid
from the state. School needs must be confined to the income from taxes
and if they exceed, and an %icrease in millage is necessary, woe be unto
the harrassed school director. Bills must be paid, audits must be made, ap-
peals must be made to the State or to the County Superintendent to approve
this or that, complaints from irate and impatient citizens must be satisfied.
And, almost every minute, the school director must guard against violating
innocently any one of the hundreds of regulations which he must know
and obey if he is to escape ouster proceedings brought by. some political
opponent who is waiting carefully for the one slip.
For all this the school director receives not one cent of salary. Because
he realizes that the restrictions placed upon him are a necessary protection
for the public, he accepts them and obeys them. An honest mistake can
subject him to public embarrassment and perhaps to court proceedings
which mar his record permanently.
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So we have a very deep respect for any man: or woman who consents
to be a school director.
Someone has to do the job, and our hat is off to
the men and women we see doing it so well.
RIVES
MATTHEWS
twists like a snake between the verte-
brae of Panama's spine-like mountain
range. Culebra, of course, is the most
thrilling part of the Canal. There,
one can only gasp and wonder, and
pay tribute to the thousands of men
who hacked a mountain in two.
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There the Canal is at its narrow-
est, and yet, as we were going
through, we passed a handsome Ger-
man ship, the Ulm of Bremen, mak-
ing her maiden voyage. Then came
the single Pedro Miguel lock, and the
three known as Miraflores, and we
were in the channel leading out to
the Pacific, with Panama City on
our port side, on our starboard, those
queer looking islands, jungle green,
which rise suddenly out of Panama
Bay, and beyond the weird steaming
mountains of Panama. Our first sight
of this ocean convinced us that the
Pacific was well named. For seven
days hardly anything that could be
called a wave has been seen to shake
our convictions,
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Random notes on the Canal: Pub-
lic drinking fountains at the locks are
like twin branched candlesticks. One
branch supports a bowl of glossy
black porcelain, the other white. Ca-
nal Zone workers drink according to
the laws of Jim Crow.
TOO
MUCH OF IT ALREADY!
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It cost the owners of the Harpoon
a little over four thousand dollars to
send her through the Canal. Canal
toll charges are based on tonnage. We
were told not many ships pass through
the Canal these days, that the mer-
chants of Cristobal and Panama City
are suffering a consequent depression.
The day we went through, two ships
went ahead of us, and two followed
us. We passed three going westbound,
one of them a freighter from Cardiff
owning up to the odd name of Nail-
sea Meadow. (In case you think I'm
off my compass, look at your map.
You'll find the Pacific side of the
Canal is seventeen miles east of the
Atlantic Side. Thus ships bound for
the Atlantic are said to pass through
the Canal westbound.)
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At all locks, U. S. soldiers do sen-
try duty. They stand at parade rest,
rifles at their sides. On a balcony
of a pumping house, I saw three sol-
diers behind a Browning machine
gun. They tell me they've been
waiting for trouble only for the last
three years. Before that, no soldiers.
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The Harpoon’s master is Captain
John V. McKown. Born in Boothbay
Harbor, Maine, he was captain of his
first ship, a sailing vessel, at the age
of twenty-one. When he married,
he took his wife along with him.
They spent their honeymoon on a
voyage to the west coast of Africa.
The first seven years of their son’s
life was spent on sailing ships. Now
in his thirties, the younger McKown
has a job on land, as an electric weld-
er. At one time, his grandfather,
father and four uncles all captained
vessels of their own.
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Both the Harpoon’s captain and
chief engineer have canaries on board,
The captain’s bird is called Jerry, the
chief’s Tom. Miles from shores, their
songs are always wistful reminders of
land to seabitten sailors. No matter
how much they may profess to love
the sea, the officers: on board this
ship like to think about the pleasures
of land, and the song of a canary at
sea brings them back sharply enough.
And all of them have photographs of
their loved ones in their quarters. The
surest way to loosen their tongues is
to ask them about their wives, chil
dren or grandchildren. Even though
I have never subscribed to the intrin-
sic truth of that old saw: Absence
makes the heart grow fonder, it
would seem to be so at sea.
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SYMPHONY
By Edna Blez
Do you listen to “One Man’s Fam-
ily” on the radio each week? I have
heard diverse opinions about this
popular program. Some think it is
too good to be true and others swear
by it and make it a point never to
miss its homely philosophy. The
Barber family has become very real hi
to its radio fans. As a matter of LE
fact I recall an acquaintenance of sa
mine saying that she was quite pro-
voked when Anne and Clifford were
married because her own youngster
insisted on talking all during the cer-
emony. She tried in vain to silence ja
her four-year-old but with no suc- hi
cess. The youngster insisted it was -
“only people on the radio”, but her AREA
mother insisted they were very dear Ht
friends and she wanted to hear them
get married. So you see just voices '
over the air wave can be quite real.
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I think we particularly enjoy “One
Man’s Family” because many of us ;
have never been privileged to enjoy FEE
such family life. It is something we Hai
all hope for but seem to have missed dau
in the general scheme of things. There
is nothing in life to compare with 4
family life such as the Barbers enjoy
A congenial clan held together by
mutual love and profound respect.
They love each other but never in-
fringe on each other's rights.
in.
There aren’t many families like the
Barbers. The mother and father
are splendid parents. They have lived
happily and have taught their chil: fy
dren the art of enjoying their lives de
to the fullest. They have level heads mS
and understanding hearts. Most par-
ents are too busy with their own '
problems to take a vital interest in
their children as they grow into men
and women. I know they take care |
of the children’s physical well-being a
but how many parents do you know E18
who are really good friends to their
children?
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I have always felt the Roosevelt
family is a fine, happy clan. You
‘might not agree with them politically
but they certainly seem to have fine
times together. Many times I have y
thought how fortunate they really
are. Not because they are wealthy
and seem to have more than the us-
ual share of worldly goods but be-
cause they seem to be such a fine alah 7
family, interested in each other and =
at their best when they are all to-
gether. They seem to possess the
ability to enjoy life and at the same)
time be good friends. :
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“One Man's Family” is only make-
believe but it has been going ‘on for
seven years and those who listen are
as vitally interested today as they
were in the very beginning. The
Barbers typify what this country
really needs: a few real homes peo-
pled by families who really love each
other and pull together, not away
from each other
343 MOTORISTS FILE
| ABILITY-TO-PAY PROOF
A. total of 343 persons filed N
proof of financial responsibility in
order to regain their automobile {4
driving licenses during the month
of March, Secretary of Revenue J.
Griffith Boardman said today.
An additional 493 persons re-
newed their proof of ability to re-
spond to damages in order to re
tain their licenses. During the
same period the proof of 165 per-
sons was cancelled and that of 212
persons was relieved.
Proof of financial responsibil-
ity in the form of cash, a bond or
insurance is required of all persons
whose licenses have been suspend-
ed or revoked or who have unsat-
isfied judgments or bad accident
records.