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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.
17. Complete elimination of politics from local school affairs.
8. Construction of more sidewalks.
Germany Nears Its End
: It has been rumored for some months that Germany
is racing headlong toward financial collapse. Informed
‘sources say England was willing to make such broad con-
cessions to the Reich only because British economists ad-
vised Neville Chamberlain’s cabinet that time itself would
defeat Hitler. :
a The collapse was scheduled originally for October.
When Germany passed that deadline safely the experts ex-
pressed the opinion that her dangerous financial condition
‘had been strengthened temporarily as a result of her vic-
tory at Munich, her inevitable end postponed.
In her Anschluss with Austria, which had valuable
gold reserves, Germany profited greatly and found a new
source of revenue to finance her hunger for armaments
and her intense desire to become independent of the rest of
the world. But in her conquest of the Sudetenland Germany
acquired a large territory in which a large percentage of
the population needed to be saved from starvation. The
glow of victory quickly faded into a realization that, as well
as capturing potentially valuable industries, Herr Hitler
had also adopted several million half-starved citizens who
« expected to be fed. :
~The indemnity of a billion marks demanded from Jews
by Air Minister Goring and the confiscation by the Reich of
all insurance payments due Jews for damage done in the
MATTHEWS
RIVES
I don’t believe the proposed visit
of Bertie and Liz to this country will
do much good for any one, unless it
be Ringmaster Whalen, whose cir
cus in the meadows of Flushing it is
hoped they will visit. But if we could
persuade Adolph Hitler or Benito
Mussolini to spend some time with
us, such visits would be much more
likely to further the interests of
world peace. I'm serious about this.
Bertie and Liz will come to us, de
riots which followed the shooting of the Germany embassy
attache in Paris may be evidence that the German gov-
ernment is feeling the need for funds to stave off collapse.
It is not impossible that the accompanying pogrom against
the Jews is merely a smoke-screen to hide the rickety fi-
nancial condition of the Reich. 3
It is not fantastic to suppose that Germany's wild,
bloody course has led her into ruination. It is, on the con-
trary. quite logical. In our very humble opinion, Herr Hit-
ler’s downfall is inevitable, or there is no truth, no justice,
no law left in the world.
f
; Henry Ford says he doesn’t “know anything about the
wages and hours law.” You've got a lot of company: Henry.
J The Battle Of Smokestacks
Unless taxes on industry in Pennsylvania are readjust-
war which is now being waged among states for industrial
supremacy.
It is true that industry must expect to carry a full
share of the responsibility for relieving human want, but it
is also true that short-sighted government policies have so
handicapped business in Pennsylvania with excessive tax-
ation that it neither ean operate normally nor keep pace
with industrial activity in the other states of the union.
‘It is essential that the coming session of the State
Legislature promptly readjust taxation on business since
otherwise the exodus of firms out of Pennsylvania will gain
further and our relief rolls become choked, moving even
further away the day wnen we will be able to give every
‘man his right to a steady job at good pay.
tion on business will be readjusted and Pennsylvania will
be in a position to launch an aggressive campaign to attract
new industries and business to the State to provide em-
ployment, additional wealth and industrial stability.
it Who Called Them “Modern”?
Our Superior British cousins who find American slang
“corrupting the English language” may have to swallow
their words. Eminent students of language have discover-
ed that a good many of the snappy phrases tossed back
and forth along Dallas’s Main Street were invented by the
most respected authors of Old England.
years ago in “Measure for Measure” and the immortal bard
lived up to his promise because researchers have found that
he told the world with more modern phrases than any other
author. Charles Dickens was second as a phrase coiner.
“The game is up,” Shakespeare wrote in “Cymbeline.”
He coined “laugh yourselves into stitches” in “Winter’s
Tale” more than three centuries ago. :
Even that most familiar cliche, “nuts to you,” isn’t
very new. A peevish character created by the author, J ohn
Byron 165 years ago, snapped “Nuts to Jonathan,” and Sir.
Walter Scott advised telling “it to the marines” 108 years
ago.
Equal Opportunities In Education
A new joint high school to cost about $100,000 is to be
built at Beaumont for Monroe and Northmoreland Town-
ships. At Lehman, the school board is preparing to con-
struct a $100,000 high school. Kingston Township School
Board is erecting a splendid, modern grade school. The
children of this section are fast approaching the long-des-
_ired goal of equal education opportunities.
It is significant that our local communities are pro-
viding larger school centers in order to give our children
the advantages of vocational education, music, art, dra-
matics, industrial arts and home-making, as well as the
regular subjects of the curriculum. This movement is like-
wise making it possible for the rural children to enjoy the
stimulating influence of highly qualified teachers who are
specially prepared to offer instruction in particular fields.
Not only are the children of this section coming into
their heritage of an educational program equal to that en-
joyed by their city neighbors, but they are coming into
their rightful heritage of attending school in buildings that
are modern in every respect, well lighted, well heated and
well ventilated. In these safe and hygienic structures,
which are not without beauty, the young folks of the coun-
try now enjoy going to school under the guidance of sym-
pathetic and understanding teachers and participate in a
diversity of activities suited to their interests, capacities
and needs.
ed this state is due for a tragic defeat inthe economic civil |
“P11 tell the world,” William Shakespeare declared 315 |
pending upon what their press agents
| decide, either as a very ordinary
jyoungish couple whose misfortune it
is to live in the warm brown glare
iof rotogravure, or as puppet figures
with all the romantic mummery and
pomp customary to a Mardi Gras
Ball in New Orleans or a Veiled
Prophet's Ball in St. Louis, to men-
tion only two festivals at which
Americans like to dress up in the
moth-eaten trappings of royalty to
give their egos a little tongue-in-
cheek chance to strut.”
I'm afraid Americans can’t take
either role seriously. The days of the
kings and captains have departed,
once and for all. And as for ordin-
ary youngish couples living in the ro-
togravures, we have no real use for
‘them unless they justify their prom-
|inence by being extraordinary. Noth-
ing we have learned so far, or are li-
able to learn next Spring, is apt to
change our opinion that there are
[thousands of youngish couples who
could hold down their jobs just as
{well, or better, than Bertie and Liz
do.
| If their visit is stage managed to
know have expressed unfavorable
comment on her habitual use of pearls
and furs: Who does she think she is,
the late Queen Marie of Rumania?
Whatever their press agents fin-
ally fix upon, Americans are going to |
look upon Bertie and Liz as just an-
other pair of human beings construct-
ed even as you and I are, and not
as well. Hollywood, we all know,
could do the whole thing a lot bet-
ter, because, in spite of occasional
rumors that it’s a help to be a six
teenth cousin of Louis B. Mayer,
Hbpllywood doesn’t pick ’em because
their grandfathers happened to live
in draughty old castles with ancient
drains.
Now a visit from Hitler would ac-
complish a lot more. We'd see a real
ruler in the flesh. And think of all
the things he'd see? Why, it would
be a real education for him. And
there's one guy who needs an educa-
tion badly.
I feel sure even the Jews in this
country would behave themselves if
Adolph could be persuaded to come
over. They'd feel, along with the rest
of us, that a visit to New York would
do Adolph a world of good and a
lot of good for a world of Jews he
now seems bent on making miserable
and desperate.
Just a chance for him to ride in an
open car with our President should
be enough to convince him it is pos
sible ‘to head a nation without all
the precautions he is forced to take!
in order to keep alive in his own
country. To be able to appear in
public without wearing a bullet proof
‘convince us that the king and queen
momentum and, with that, our unemployment will rise still of the British Empire are nothing!
‘more than amiable rubber stamps,
| then they might as well save them-
selves the bother of coming over, and
| great deal of flutter and dither.
| We learned it from Wally Simp- |
son, if we did not learn it before,
that Britain's big apple, at that time,
Baldwin, lives at 10 Downing Street,
not in Buckingham Palace.
Among bridge players there is an
old expression which has been short
ened to: “Never send a boy.” The
rest of it runs: “On a man’s errand.”
{some of us across the water are plan-
ning to do next Spring.
If they expect us to fall for Bertre
land Liz, I think they've another guess
icoming. From what I can gather
(though I don’t Gallup about the
\country as much as I would like to)
|Americans feel something akin to pity
(for Bertie because he stutters and
Jought to take a few lessons from Dale
(Carnegie. As for Liz, there is no
very definite sentiment at all. I feel
sure few U. S. males thrill at the
sight of her bland but plain counten-
ance. She’s far from being a hot
number. And some of the gals I
And that is just what the cousins of |
vest ought to be an inducement to
visit us for a man who spends every
Health?
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What 55 You Know About
ON MANY FRENCH
§ HOSPITAL
s When WAS
MILK FirsT BOTTLED ©
eliminating flies and other pests from
a room,
In 1887. A Potsdam, New York
man is credited with being the first
to invent the glass milk bottle and
to place it on the market. This was
a big step forward in delivering
clean, safer milk to the purchasers.
Now, pasteurization and rigid sani-
tary requirements assure safe, pure
milk for all.
1. An 18th cen-
tury English clergy-
man who was the originator of arti- 3
Answers:
ficial ventilation. This was the fore-
runner of our modern air condition.
ing systems.
2. Blue. Doctors and architects
tell us that a blue color is used to
discourage flies because these insects
have a marked dislike for blue. In
America, we find the use of window
screens a much more certain way of
City Symphony
By Edna Blez
has fallen in love! Perhaps you are |might be left over.
of the opinion that falling in love at
14 is something to be taken lightly.
I am very much afraid it is a serious | .
business. Not only is it serious from | Sunday afternoon, while still in
the viewpoint of the fourteen-year- ithe daze of her first real attachment,
old but to the rest of the household the new young lady decided she
it spells terror and utter confusion. [Would make muffins. We weren't
Up until now the young lady in lexcited over the prospect of a helper
. She scrubbed her
(teeth until we were forced into tell-
ling her she might injure them!
|day of his life suspecting his own
{chef of Borgianing-up the borsch.
{But of course, I forget, Hitler would
|hardly fancy a Russian ragout of any
If the pledges of the recent campaign are kept, taxa- Mrs. Roosevelt and her secretaries al ort,
| I'm sure that many of the horrible
{things Hitler does can be explained
[by this constant fear psychosis. So,
la few months over here would help
(him get rid of this fear. A visit to
{our shores would prove excellent
'therapy for Adolph.
And maybe, while he was over
here, he'd learn from our public men
ithe secret of holding high office
without having to live in continual
fear of death. Maybe, also, we could
show him how free “speech, which
we take as much for granted as the
air we breathe, is quite as necessary
to life and happiness as exhalation is
to inhalation.
In short, there are so many things
that men like Hitler and Mussolini
could learn from us it seems a pity
hired help like Bertie and Liz when
we should spend the same time and
money to better advantages on do-
ing a good selling job on real bosses,
if only we could get them to come
over.
The Mail Bag
Editor: We had a wonderful trip to
Florida, visiting in Washington, Ra-
leigh, Saranac and Jacksonville en
route.
The weather in Zephyrhills is very
mild and pleasant. The tourist camp,
in which my sister and her husband,
Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Hobart and I
are staying, is a beautiful spot under
huge live oaks covered with Spanish
moss that sways like feathers in the
breezes.
People from all over the United
States are here, all very friendly and
sociable. There are about 200 here
now.
I shall be looking forward with
keen interest to receiving The Post
here.
Wishing for your continued suc-
cess, I am )
Mrs. George W. Reynolds
Zephyrhills, Fla.
To the Editor: 3
I wonder if they won't in the fu-
ture be rather) justified in refering
to the present one as the “Age of
Trash.”
Homes are cluttered with useless
radios, machines, books, trick inven-
tions, nonsensical gadgets, space-
consuming, vulgar “pieces of art”;
and trillions of other unused items.
Wouldn't our homes be cleaner
and more livable if the trash were
cleared out and given to those who
really have use for it?
READER
for us to waste time and money on!
‘iwhen she did get her breath the
our house has taken most things in jin the kitchen but we agreed and
|her stride. We have always felt she |Were really getting along nicely when
\was unusually calm and very few | the phone rang! Of course, it was
things seemed to disturb her peace of the young man who has temporarily
mind, But now that love has en-|Wrecked our household. The 'con-
ltered her life everything seems to be |Versation, from where I listened, not
lin a state of general confusion. For only hurt my ears but made me want
tthe past year the boys have taken our | t© run and hide so I couldn't hear it.
fair daughter to the movies and an [It was utterly inane, silly, and just
occasional party, and it all seemed |the sort of conversation we had hop-
quite natural. “As a matter of fact, |¢d the young lady in our house would
we have been telling ourselves that never indulge in. It consisted of
our daughter wasn’t the silly type! giggles, interspersed with wild excla-
We were convinced that she mations! We gently closed the door
wouldn't stand around and giggle |Pécause we would rather not hear
and completely lose her head every Our fair daughter reverting to type
time a member of the opposite sex |3nd we could only hope this stage of
put in an appearance. As usual we [the game wouldn't last long enough
are forced into eating our own words. | t0 make all of us to want to leave
We are forever apologizing for some- home!
thing we felt was quite true when
we said it!
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The young man who has caused all
the excitement and turned our young |
tlady into a person we are not at all
acquainted with seems to be a per-
(fectly harmless individual. As a mat-
ter of fact we had never laid eyes on
him until one evening last week
when he rang the doorbell and asked, |
in a very shaky voice, if this was!
where our young lady lived. The
young lady wasn’t at home!
When she did arrive and we told
her that a strange individual had
asking for her, her conversation was
almost too much for us. For a few
minutes she could utter nothing and
THE LOW DOWN
from
HICKORY GROVE
I used to know a feller in
Minneapolis — his name was
Henry—and he was just about
a champion, I reckon, at yarns
with points to em: Every per-
son, they cannot tell jokes—
maybe it is a gift or maybe it
comes from practice—but Henry
he has one for everything. .
Not long ago he dropped in
to see me, and he has not chang-
ed. And he said, do you know,
Jo, the way Uncle Sam is div-
ing into everything, he is acting
kinda pixilated, and he reminds
me of the story about the light
house the Govt. built.
words which came tumbling out of
her mouth were something like this:
“Oh, he really didn’t come here!
What did he say? Don’t you think
The new young lady in our house |hands with the hot water which
he’s neat? How do you like his hair?
Oh, imagine what the other girls will
say. Why, all the girls are crazy
about him, etc., etc.
The next day after realizing we
were in for some sort of a siege we
noticed that there were unusual
preparations for the football game.
Clothes were carefully selected and
her hair was combed so many times
we began to worry how much longer
her hair could stand so much abuse.
She took so long for a shower we
wondered if anyone in the house
would be able even to wash their};
The lighthouse, a feller by
the name of Tony, he helped
build it. And when it was fin-
ished, Tony he says, Sambo he
is crazy; he spends a lotta money
and makes a nica lighthouse.
And when she is all finished,
and they turn on the light, and
toota the horn, and ringa the
bell, what happens? Well, he
says, the fog she come in all the
same.
Yours, with the low down,
: JO SERRA.
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