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THE DALLAS POST
ESTABLISHED 1889
Dallas, Penna., By The Dallas Post, Inc.
under Act of March 3, 1879.
More Than A Newspaper—A Dynamic Community Institution
A
A Liberal, Independent Newspaper Published Every Friday
Momming At The Dallas Post Plant, Lehman Avenue,
Entered as second class matter at the Post Office at Dallas, Pa.,
HOWARD WW. RISLEY. srcrimsciimessisssrississssissssns General Manager
HAROLD 1]. PRICE. ih denebnss Mechanical Superintendent
THE POST'S CIVIC PROGRAM
1. A modern concrete hi in
necting with the a Ti feo Dallav ond for
2. A greater development of community consciousness among
residents of Dallas, Trucksville, Shavertown, and Fernbrook.
3. Centralization of local fire and police protection.
4. Sanitary sewage systems for local towns.
5. Better water service.
6. A consoli i iC
wa £eonselideed oh school eventually, and better co-operation
7. Complete elimination of politics from local school affairs.
8. Construction of more sidewalks.
DiaMonDs UNDER OUR DOORSILL
Those who lost no money in the venture have a right to their
ret satisfaction, but their glee leaves us cold to any appreciation of
business acumen. Many of those so favored didn’t have any
oney to invest in the first place, having already lost it in high type
tments in Wall Street. Others were too timid and if they had
ed, their moral support would have been negligible. Sabatoge
\ within is as deadly as defeat from outside sources.
o, we like the kind of pioneering instinct that leads a man to
ough of a community sport to invest in a local venture. Win,
yr draw we'll take our hat off to the man who has confidence
gh in his neighbors and his own ability to venture a gamble in his
backyard. We don't think any of those who invested thought
were going to get rich overnight. The biggest investors knew
the chances of return for a number of years were slim, but all
y wanted an outlet in a common community endeavor—and they
here was no resort to high-pressure slick promotion. It was
he enthusiasm of those who had already ventured their money,
‘were convinced of the abundance of supply of raw materials,
ent analysis and ready market for the finished product that sold
a to others. There were no involved financial manipulations.
as no attempt to make profit from the sale of stock. This was
usiness venture aimed at success in the production of bricks.
hat it failed should bring no humiliation to anyone. Far less
£ the same amount of money were lost in foreign oil-wells, Boliv-
nds or German marks.
__Our only regret—we had no money to invest—is that the venture
not have been carried on still closer home. Had these same
emen, inspired by the same enthusiasm, seen opportudity in a
unity hotel in Dallas, a great apartment house on one of our
or a group of modern unit stores on Lake Street, the community
d still have been enriched by their investment.
Acres of diamonds in our own backyards are hard to see. Even
close as Lopez some would stumble over them. But the riches in
all Street fascinate us all. It is unfortunate that those who invested
‘Dutch Mountain overlooked the diamonds still closer home. A com-
nity hotel,-an apartment house, a group of ginit stores, under-
_ ver management, would contribute to the Tencral business wel
or years to come.
It may be that a brilliant future lies ahead for Dutch Mountain
ay Products Company. And if it does we salute those who have
the courage to stick with it, and who believe that there are acres
diamonds right near home.
But we'll turn a back flipper on the day some, fellow thinks
e sees them right under our door sill.
Fact Or Fiction—IT’s UP To You
The smart person soon learns that the effective way to get fair
atment from a newspaper is to co-operate with its reporters rather
‘than take a condescending and suspicious attitude toward them.
We always regard with pity, people who withhold information
bout a wedding, a funeral or an accident. Little do they seem to
calize that the withheld information has already spread by word of
mouth by the time the reporter gets a whiff of it—and nine times out
f ten incorrectly.
~ There is a sage saying in newspaper offices that goes something
ike this. If a man insists on having it in the newpaper—it’s adver-
ing; if he insists on keeping it out, it's news. And nothing is more
challenging to an alert newspaperman than a story that is hard to get.
As a local newspaper we are not interested in copying verbatim in-
ormation from city newspapers and must be expected to look for ad-
ditional details. If these details are to be correct it behooves those who
have the information to give it to us pleasantly and accurately and not
make it necessary for us to get it from the neighbors.
For similar reasons we have no desire to be “scooped” by other
papers and refuse to wait until stories have the sanction of appearance
lsewhere before we touch them. If there is any reason for secrecy
about the birth of a child, an accident, the members of a wedding party
of the prices bid at auctions, we fail to see it.
We are always amused at the person who gives us no news of an
approaching wedding, yet brings us a notice of a bake sale or shooting
“match for the following week.
So what? you say. Well, for two weeks now we have been ac
cused of having incorrect information in stories appearing in our paper.
In each instance the accusations were made by people who gave us the
information indifferently and with decided lack of co-operation. And
in each instance the only persons effected by the error were those very
same people.
And so we repeat, the smart person soon learns that the effective
way to get fair treatment from a newspaper is to co-operate rather
than take a condescending and suspicious attitude toward those who
only want the facts.
PHEW! PHEW!
We may be wrong, but we venture to guess that all the concrete
new by-pass, that all the painting of buildings and all the making of
new storefronts cannot conceal the filth of Toby's Creek.
We may be wrong, but we venture to guess that all the pretty
girls who drive the by-pass, all the beer gardens that beckon, all the
neon signs that flash, cannot detract attention from rubbish in Toby's
Creek. ;
: We may be wrong, but we venture to guess, that all the odors of
gasoline, that all the speed of passing motorists, that all the closing of
windows, that all the perfumes of Arabia cannot sweeten this little
spot . . . and that goes for Lifebuoy.
How in the name of sensitive nostrils any one can live along the
shores of that creek without starting a crusade is more than this news
Edith Blez
All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women—Voltaire
THE AVALANCHE
7
Fred M. Kiefer
) HOPE THEY'LL
REMEMBER
TO Dia ME OUT
TO VOTE /
GIMME A MATCH
Let's take a look at the slate. |veyor: We won't quibble over
Judge W. A. Valentine: One of | °¢ hundred dollars a year.
the fairest and most capable jur- This, boys, is what all the noise
« |ists who ever graced the Luzerne has been about.
County Bench; is shining light of | This is what has kept Republi-
the ticket. cans from Hazleton to Kunkle
Judge John S. Fine: You tell us! | tearing the sheets and insulting
John A. MacGuffie: Excellent thelr Selgin. We make bold
record as commissioner; believes Snoay to sy there isn’t a:man Im
he’s bigger than the party; third e county, excepting the shied
; ensembl :
termer; less highways—Iess taxes, iy ole She Sarees in fo on
of course. . e are taking as-
Robert Lloyd, for County Com- pa Cutseles,
missioner: No one seems able to Certainly no one reading this
say a thing against him (and in has failed to note that in three
politics, if there is the least possi- | stances we have very courageous
bility of doing to, it's donc): no ly hinted that the slated candi
very prominent, at least to us dates may be beaten by independ-
folk back here. Come on out, Bob! | €0t Republicans. We do not say
one hundred dollars a year. they will be, but they may be.
Looh Schwares, Tor I: 1A If Messrs. Slattery, Thomas and
With the exception of the ‘‘Bomb- Sos ris pool their ;. Sap abilities,
ing Case’ not an impressive record z id funds and ; their followings;
in office; high-hat; honest; failure synchronize their speeches and
to prosecute highway scandals will oer vesle ond bold rr t on in
hurt. (Slattery can beat him.) NE Of Strength,
' | they should go far,
Dallas GC Schobert, for’ Sheriff: At least one-quarter of the reg-
Mey yous i She Shodits gfe ular Republicans are at that dis-
AN a XS, gusted stage where they will, eith-
. er not go to the polls at all on pri-
John B. Wallis, for County|mary day, or, if they do, vote
Treasurer: Honest, conscientious;|only about one-half the ticket.
will hew to the line; large business| They resent the membership of
experience; a little past the prime. | the Governor's Advisory Commit-
(Thomas is in the way.) tee; they resent the long, bicker-
John Shivell, for Register of ing period of standstill; they re-
THE SENTIMENTAL SIDE
THE LOW DOWN FROM
HICKORY GROVE
Wills: Powerful politician in his | $0 above all else, the passing
own park. (Morris still may |Over of the men who did the heavy
break the tape. labor for the Party last year.
DrileowieS Recs, for. Cor Maybe Frank, Bill and Joe are
oner: Being a good doctor, he will the fair-haired boys?
same type of people I meet every | handyman. He is by far the most
highways leading to Luzerne, that all the signboards erected along the |
The people in this summer ho- inary dog and insisted that the
tel are almost as fascinating as my | waitress give the dog a place at
fellow bus companions, or the |the table!
people I meet on the city streets.
Of course they are more or less the
You would love Harry, the
day but they are different because | interesting man on the place. He
they are on vacation. They all|is a Swede, a young Swede who
seem like actors in a play which | has lived in this neck of the woods
has no real beginning and no end! all his life. He managed to get
through high school and now he
I feel sure you would enjoy the |is the very important chore man
leading lady. I am afraid she|at this very active mountain re
picked out the wrong hotel, She|sort. He is really a very busy
really belongs at Skytop or Buck-| little man. He moves very slowly
hill. * But she seems to have gotten | but he seems to cover plenty of
side-tracked, and is stopping with ground in the course of each day.
the common herd! I suspect she|He loves to chat and he is very
is long past middle-age, but she|proud of the motor he has rigged
apparently wants to appear to be up to pump water from the creek
about forty. She is very good to|into the pool.” He tells us it is a
look at; tall, beautifully arranged | mere nothing but I can actually see
grey hair, a figure like a weeping | his chest swell with pride as he
willow tree, if you know what I) demonstrates the power of his
mean. Her clothes are like some- | small invention. I wish you could
thing out of Harper's or Vogue. |see him when he takes a notion to
Her bracelets, and shoes, and bags | doll up and play ping-pong in the
are chosen with the utmost care | evening. I feel sure the white
and taste. I feel sure her makeup | flannels are left over from high
has been taught her by an expert!school Commencement and the
but I don’t like her smile. Her isuspenders are really quite out of
face seems so grey and her smile | the ordinary. Harry is a rugged in-
is like that of a lovely ghost! She |dividualist and quite a ladies’ man!
doesn’t seem quite real and she
never yet approached the swim-| Then there is the young Adonis
Every once in a while you |gne.
will pick up a paper and
somebody is poppin’ off about
women in business, and how
successful they are, etc.
But stenographers and
young women who know their
onions, they quit the offices
as soon as they get married.
They quit before the so-called
head of the house gets hep iy
that he can loaf and play
pool, while the little woman
brings in the bacon.
But right down to brass |
tacks, most fellers, they would |
rather turn over their pay-
check to some gal who knows
something about the design
and flavor of a mince pie ver-
sus a gal who can maybe man-
age a plumbing shop, or can
put the shot, or do some
man’s job. Most fellers, they |
are kinda half-way fearful to
tie up with these go-getters.
Men in women’s jobs or in
women’s garb, they would be
laughing stock.
Smart gals—they stay fem-
inine.
Yours, with the low down,
JO SERRA.
make as good a coroner as the next| Vhatever the case, a strong,
mutual front on their part would
; pave the way towards convincing
Charles J. Bufalino, for Record | the electorate who are juicy-ripe
er of Deeds: Patsy Aquilina’s| for 3 move of this kind right now.
choice. Well, Patsy's O. K. Go on boys, take a look at the
Michael Adamschick, for Sur- slate.
The
WILKES-BARRE BUSINESS
COLLEGE, INC.
would be pleased to receive your re-
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Business or a Secretarial Course of study.
Positions have been good and employ-
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WILKES-BARRE
BUSINESS COLLEGE. Inc. 34
VICTOR LEE DODSON, President
ming pool. Her conversation, al-| who has come here to catch up on
though worth listening to, is in-| his sleep and incidentally to give
sincere and I have the feeling that | the girls a treat. He never seems
she is trying very hard to be some- | to center his attention on any one
thing she apparently is not! girl. He amuses them all and
makes it very evident that he! must
I know you would enjoy the have plenty of rest and his daily
clowns! We call them the clowns sunbaths. He strolls around in
because they do most of the enter-| what he calls his little blue shorts
taining. There are four of them, |and when he isn’t superintending
two married couples from the |shuffle board or tennis he is tak
Bronx. They tell us they choose|ing a sun bath. He is reading
their vacations by running their | “Grapes of Wrath,” not because
finger through the advertisements | he likes it, but because someone
in the newspapers and their finger [sent him the book and he feels
stopped this year at this particular | that he must read it even though |
place, so here they are! Their he finds it quite boring!
conversation, while not exactly
elevating, is a riot. They have no| There is the usual group of
inhibitions whatsoever and some of | young and attractive girls on their
the very nice ladies in the place, |two weeks’ vacation, trying to get
although they would like to laugh, |a beautiful coat of tan and wear
won't permit themselves to laugh | ing their pretty outfits they bought
at such vulgar people! They play | for their vacation. It is very tra- |
all the games around the place |gic that there isa scarcity of young |
with great determination, but of | men, but most of the young men
course they refuse to obey the rules | are safely married and the single
of any game. They make their |girls must content themselves with
own rules! Their tennis is worth | plenty of sunburn and the books
watching. They spend all their |they brought along to read. I
time running around in circles ana | find that most of the guests are
bumping into each other because |reading “Grapes of Wrath.” I
they all seem to run after the ball | refuse to ask if they are enjoying
at the same time. One morning at | it because I know what the answer
wer
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