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large sum but it will not be enough to give Anthracite an
“for all of us.
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tax policies.
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EDITORIALS
Suggestion For A Valentine
If Governor James can see his way clear to appoint
Judge W. A. Valentine of Wilkes-Barre to the vacancy on
the Superior Court Bench he will be performing an act
which will be greeted with acclamation throughout Penn-
sylvania. Moreover, he will be naming to that responsible
position one of the most brilliant and respected Common
Pleas judges in the State. ] :
Petitions requesting Judge Valentine’s appointment have
been forwarded to Governor James not only from Luzerne
County but from other Bar Associations in neighboring
counties. Such figures as President Judge Will Leach of
Lackawanna County and Judge T. Linus Hoban have af-
fixed their signatures, along with hundreds of attorneys,
to the petitions addressed to the Governor.
oudge Valentine, whose term as Judg
County will expire in 1940, has made a brilliant record as
a jurist. His decisions on important cases have been far-
reaching and he has established a sound reputation for
administering justice tempered with mercy. His record is
unblemished and, as an individual, he personifies the
strongest ideals of Americanism. ;
Lis appointment by Governor James will be a wise and
.a popular one.
Anthracite At The World’s Fair
Although our community is spared many of the dis-
advantages inflicted upon towns in the Anthracite region
we do benefic; indirectly, when the hard coal industry booms
and it behooves all of us in Dallas and its neighboring com-
munities to get behind the campaign to boost Anthracite at
the World's Fair in New York this year,
The easiest way to help will be to buy immediately one
of the “Antb=sacite Booster” buttons which are being distri-
buted £0 persons who contribute to the drive to raise funds
to finance a Pennsylvania Anthracite Exhibit at the fair.
Anthracite Industries, Inc., already has appropriated a
exhibit large and compelling enough to compete success-
fully with the other industrial displays. You can contribute
“through the local committee.
An estimated 60,000,000 people will pass through the
gates of the New York World’s Fair this year, people from
Maine to California, from Canada to New Orleans and it
“would be a mistake if some impressive effort were not made
to acquaint these visitors with the latest developments in
heating equipment — stokers, boilers, water-heaters, kit-
chen ranges, etc. \ :
The advertising value of such an exhibit would mean
better business for Anthracite and better business for An-
thracite will mean more business and greater prosperity
Liquor Problem, 1939 Model
We had a liquor problem in 1920, when the Noble Ex-
periment began. We had a liquor problem in 1932, when we
‘repealed Prohibition. We still have a liquor problem in
1939. Maybe we always will have it.
The problem today arises from the staggering number
of licensed bars and taprooms, about 14,000 in Pennsyl-
‘vania, 3,300 more than there were on July 1, 1920, when
Prohibition went into effect.. Those who hoped for more
‘temperate drinking habits as a result of the sad lesson of
prohibition have been disappointed.
The danger in the situation today is that the constant-
ly increasing number of taprooms may be used by those
liquor licenses to the control of the county courts. That
would open the way immediately to a return of the evil al-
liance between political Judges and the saloonkeeper pol-
iticians, a tie-up which was an ever-present source of scan-
‘dal in pre-Prohibition days.
Unless we are to fall again for such “remedy” as pro-
‘hibition, which was certainly worse than the original evil,
we must have stricter enforcement of the present laws gov
erning taprooms and restrictions which will discourage the
less desirable holes-in-the-vral.
Economy Comes Back
Campaign promises of economy and efficiency in Gov-
‘ernment are not always made to be kept. There is real
news, therefore, in the economy wave which seems to be
sweeping through many States in the wake of new guber-
‘natorial regimes.
These developments in the State are straws that show |
which way the wind is beginning to blow. The American
people are tired of waiting for prosperity to come around
the corner under the whiplash of improvident spend-and-
There may be food for some thought in all this for the
administration’s fiscal policy formulators.
New Days Mean New Methods
The visitation survey to be conducted by local churches
in an effort to reclaim members who have lost interest in
their church affiliation is somewhat different from the
stimulant for back-sliding members. New days bring new
old-fashioned revival which was once the church’s favorite
methods, however, and the Kernahan visitation campaign,
‘which is geared to the 20th Century, will, we hope, result
| Come February and the birdthdays
of so many of our Great Men, it is
and then to write a column or a tub
| thumper that is a little like pouring
[old wine into new bottles. It is the
cielans fo pore over dusty archives
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a in fazerme dd trick of the preacher who takes | bullet proof vests, travel in armored
lan ancient text to illuminate a hom-
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{ily on the age’s newest discovery. So,
| to that end, I give you the following
{courtly exchange of correspondence
| between our First President and a
Prime Minister of Spain.
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Mount Vernon, December 19
1785. - George Washington to Count
de Florida Blanca: “Sir, My homage
is due to his Catholic Majesty for the
honor of his present. The value of
it is intrinsically great; but is is ren-
dered inestimable by the manner, and
the hand it is derived from. Let me
entreat you, therefore, Sir, to lay be-
fore the King my thanks for the pack-
(asses, with which he has been grac
| iously pleased to compliment me; and
to assure his Majesty of my unbound-
ed gratitude for this instance of his
royal notice and favor. That long life,
perfect health and unfading glory may
attend his Majesty's reign, is my fer-
vent wish. With great respect and
consideration I have the honor to be,
etc.” :
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St. Ildefonso, September 1, 1786.
Count de Florida Blanca to George
Washington: “It will give pleasure
higher nature may offer to prove the
great esteem he entertains for your
Excellency’s personal merit, singular
virtues and character.
Jackasses, you must bear in mind,
were highly prized animals in those
days. They still are, wherever that
valuable work-beast, the mule, is bred.
But even in those days the jackass was
considered a subject of humor, an ob-
ject of derision. The dictionary tells
us that a jackass, in addition to being
a male ass or donkey, is a “conceited
dolt,” a “perverse blockhead.” Oné
hundred years before Washington
was born, John Donne wrote of an
encounter of three Oxford Scholars
with an Ancient Gentleman as fol-
lows:
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Three Oxford Scholars to a tavern
came
Awhile for to make merry at the
same;
And finding there one stricken far
in years,
Did set upon him all with shouts and
jeers.
The first man said, that to salute him
came,
“God save ye, good old Father Abra-
ham;”
The second with a pretty congey
meets him
And with “God save ye, Father
Isaac,” greets him.
The third to jeer him in the self-same
guise
“God save ye, good old Father Jacob,”
cries,
The old man thus flouted by them
altogether,
Says, “I am not Abraham, Isaac,
Jacob, neither,
Wherefore forbear your shouts I you
do wish,
For I, indeed, am Saul, the son of
Kish, ;
Who for to seek my Father's asses
came
From far, and here have found the
same!”
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All of which explains the great
care and adroitness with which Count
de Florida Blanca worded his reply
to Washington when he assured him
that the King of Spain awaited “op-
portunities of a higher nature” to
in a new appreciation of the church throughout this section.
ington.
SAE
MATTHEWS
to his Majesty, that opportunities of a |
prove his regard for General Wash- |i
RIVES
[ If, today, our President, or Secre
Itary of Agriculture, should send a
| customary for columnists and poli- | jackass as a gift to Adolph Hitler or
| Benito Mussolini, such a gesture
minght easily lead to war. -Dictatorse
are a touchy lot. They carry chips on
| their shoulders even though they wear
cars and live in bombproof houses.
While they take great care of their
own lives and honor, they are not so
careful of the lives and honor of the
people they govern. And so they are
ready to make other men fight at the
drop of a hat over any fancied in-
sult, just as Louis XIV was ready to
vince in the Low Countries struck off
a medal showing the sun obscured by
clouds. Louis, who styled himself the
Sun-King, would tolerate no clouds
as long as he lived. If alive today,
he'd make an excellent president of a
chamber of commerce in Florida or
California,
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But in Washington’s day a jack-
ass was a very useful animal. And
Woashington’s flowery phrases of
thanks must not be put down as for-
mal gratitude. As a farmer, and one
of the country’s first real students of
agriculture, Washington knew the
value of the Spanish king's gift. It is
t quite probable there are thousands of
mules doing good work today which
have in their veins some of the blood
of that pair of asses George Wash-
ington received from Spain.
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Now the fioral to be drawn from
this is not as simple as you might
think. It is not merely that since
Spain helped us to hack our eiviliza-
tion out of a wilderness it is our duty,
now that Spain seems to be returning
to jungle law, to help her keep her
civilization intact. Nor is it that
Washington was a revolutionary, and
what would be called a Red today,
that, nevertheless, a king could look
at a Red and find him not unworthy
of praise and help.
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It is, rather, that just as we had
something to learn from Spain, i. e.
mule-breeding, so Spain has plenty to
learn from us. It is that no part of
the world can stand aloof from what
goes on in other parts of the world.
It is, as history shows, that the tables |
may often be turned, the roles re-
versed.
A sovereign helped us become a
sovereign state, if only with the gift
of a pair of jackasses. Now what are
we going to do, as a sovereign state,
about a state desperately trying to
fight off the sovereignty of men who
would really be complimented if one
could truthfully compare them to the
sturdy and useful jackasses the Ring |
of Spain sent as a gift and compli-
ment to Washington?
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Apparently we are going to con’
tinue helping Franco, Hitler and
Mussolini by passing on the other side
of the road, saying Spain is not our
affair, saying that we are not our
brothers’ keeper.
WP *
Our standing with arms folded
(and an embargo on the shipment of
arms abroad) has doomed democracy
in Spain. Maybe it will turn out that
this policy has made less than jack-
asses of Great Britain, France and all
of us still proud to call ourselves de-
mocrats, but I, for one, and there are
many like me, wonder whether the
cause of world peace is furthered by
our refusal to furnish the sinews of
war to a democratic government
when totalitarian states place men
and material at the disposal of those
seeking to overthrow democracy.
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We thought you might be interest: | times whes she tries to get away with
ed to know we aren’t doing so well wearing just ear muffs and when we
in our Latin at present! We are be- [attempt to find out what she js trying
yond the “amo, amas, amat” stage to keep warm, she just looks at us as
and now we are struggling along with |if we couldnt possibly be in our right
all kinds of difficult translations—we mind. Some day we are going to take
think they are difficult but the new la few minutes and tell our fair
young lady in our house thinks we daughter that we wore long under
are a trifle slow! She doesnt know |wear when we were her age; and how
whether to have much confidence in | we remember the struggle we had
our knowledge of Latin or not. Sev- (stuffing that itchy stuff down into
eral times lately she has asked for our cotton stockings so that we
help with. a nasty gleam in her eye! wouldn't look like a balloon. But it
When we hesitate and ask for a few | wouldn't do any good to tell her,
minutes to look the words up in the |she wouldn't believe us. She would
we sense strange glances coming our think—poor Mother, she must have
way. It seems to be a little game our |been dull at my age!
new young lady is playing with us,
and for some very strange reason she
seems to be trying to catch us. May-
be we were guilty of saying we were
pretty good at Latin; maybe we did
a little boasting, never suspecting that
the time would really come when we
would be taken at our word.
Our Algebra is a thing of the past.
We haven't had any opportunity to
brush up on it because our fair
daughter has stopped asking us for
help in that direction. She seems to
know that we are just not the type
who can do Algebra, At first she
used to make the remark that some
Mothers could do Algebra! We had
no answer for that one, but we did
feel rather chagrined because we hate
to admit defeat in the very beginning.
Heaven knows what will happen
when we come to Geometry. I think
we will just have to take to going
out more in the evenings. If we are
not at home we won't have to admit
our short comings!
Then there is English! The good
old rules of grammar which we al
ways thought we knew something
about. We have discovered, since
our fair daughter has been in High
School, that we must have been learn-
ing a different language. It couldn't
have been the same language because
the rules don’t seem to be the same as
they were 20 years ago. Every word
We utter seems to be in the wrong
place, and according to the rules our
daughter learns we are all wrong.
Our words seem badly chosen, and
even though we suffered through
many years of English and, since we
have left school, have taken several
short courses in an effort to brush
up, the new young lady in our house
insists that her teachers are right and
we are usually wrong!
We are beginning to think it
would be a very good plan if we
just dropped everything and went
back to school with our fair daughter.
THE MARTYR |
BY
Ada May Holmes, Kingston
“Oh, help! Oh, help! Oh,save me!”
You should just have heard me
scream,
The night a little goblin
Tried to pinch me, in a dream!
“T've never seen a goblin,”
Daddy said, “but when I do,
| I'll have it stuffed and mounted
As a special gift for you!”
“My goodness, no!” I told him,
“Now what good’s a goblin, dead?
I'd rather keep the little pest
Alive, inside my head!”
THE LOW DOWN
’ from
HICKORY GROVE
Each year the B. S. A. gets
out a little diary which is a dan-
dy. The B. S. A., if you don’t
already know, is the Boy Scouts
of America.
This little diary will go in
your vest pocket, if you still have
a vest, and the tax-collector has
not got it. And besides being
a diary, it has more in it than
most any book you can pick up.
It costs 15 cents. Every old
spavin and his boy should have
one. And it would not hurt
mama either to read it—also Sis.
This little diary is sort of a
digest of the B. S. A. Manual.
The Manual is the world’s se
cond best seller—it comes next
to the Bible. :
If you have made some good
resolutions for 1939, there is
even a place in the diary to
write 'em down, And in 2 weeks
from now, you can just squint
into it, and not have to wrack
your head, trying to remember
behind the times! For instance, when | What it was you resolved to do
ds of our government
with it a different mean-
be no royal compli |
or not to do.
Yours, with the low down,
JO SERRA.
we insist that she cover her head with
a hat when the morning is cold, she
insists that a scarf tied around her
head is plenty of covering. There are
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