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The rejection of the “ham and eggs” plans in California
Ohio prove that, under representative democracy, if the
in the street really has time to thresh a problem out he
es to a pretty reasonable conclusion.
That was a pleasant way the Treasury Department had
observing Armistice Day. It announced that Europe now
us over $ 14,000,000,000.00.
\
: Anybody who became bewildered over the change in dates
turns up for a Thanksgiving dinner next Thursday will
e to be content with turkey hash.
SENTIMENT Swings Away From War
Human nature is as unpredictable as quicksilver. Those
us who forecast that the frank anti-dictatorship sentiment
e American people would rapidly lead us to war once it
ke out abroad (and many made exactly that forecast dur-
the past few years) seem to have backed a losing horse.
g by the best evidence available, the martial spirit has not
reased a whit in this country since the war began.
A late Fortune poll is of exceptional interest. According
this poll, only 1.7 per cent of the people believed we should
nter the war on the side of the Allies, whereas, in September,
: per cent thought we should. Slightly over 10 per cent
ught we should join the Allies if it looks as if they are get-
he worst of it, where 13.5 per cent approved of that
se the month before. This overwhelming isolationist spirit
ns even though, according to the same poll, more than
per cent of our people want England and France and their
nds to win, and only 1.3 per cent want Germany and her
ends to win (the balance replied that they favored neither
le, or didn’t know).
rthermore, anti-war feeling seems to exist at practically
er level in government and official circles. Men close to
hington affairs have said that when war first began, im-
+ officials feared that we would inevitably be drawn in.
, say the correspondents, their outlook has undergone
natic change. An important sidelight on sentiment there
found in one of Paul Mallon’s Washington dispatches. Wrote
Mallon: “Mr. Roosevelt . . . has been pounding the desk
onfabs with congressmen lately about this talk that he will
is into the war. The surprised legislators report they have
‘seen him so aroused about anything. The United States
rnment will not get into the war at any time under any
sumstances and it is foolish and absurd for anyone to sug-
t such a thing, the President has told at least three repre-
‘To pile up more evidence in support of ‘the argument that
American people really are determined to stay out of this
» some observers have used the City of Flint incident as an
nple of what they regard as America’s hard-headed and
stic attitude. Had the Germans seized an American ship
under similar circumstances in 1915 or 1916, they say, public
eeling would have boiled, mass meetings would have been held,
we might have been led headlong into war. What actually
ppened when the Flint was seized was far different. There
as no great excitement. The government made strong diplo-
hatic protests to Russia and Germany. High officials admitted
rankly that a large part of the Flint’s cargo might accurately
e called contraband, and that she was likely to legal seizure
r international law. No one of consequence even suggest-
he possibility of military reprisals. And the main point of
troversy was not the seizure, but the technical question of
sether she could have legally been taken to a neutral port.
Some feel that our neutrality may be menaced if and when
e British and French really loose the floodgates of propa-
anda—they remembered how efficiently the allies rang the
ell with this weapon in the last war. But it must also be re-
membered that this propaganda was ruthlessly exposed, and
at many Americans feel that we were ‘taken for a sucker’s
buggy ride.
More and more Americans seem to think that Europe's
quarrels are Europe’s business, and that, hate the dictators as
we will, we must keep our hands out of the mess. All in all,
; today, say men whose business is to feel the public pulse, Amer-
ca’s chance of remaining at peace seem much brighter in No-
vember than they did in September.
SPECIAL SESSION
Governor Arthur H. James’ attitude toward calling a
here is need (to call a special session),” said the Governor,
“it will be called when the need arises. I do not propose to
_ determine ‘a special session. on the basis of whether the Re-
publican Convention is in session or not.”
Last February Governor James said that if the $120,000,-
© 000 appropriated for relief did not last until the next re-
gular session he would call a special session. Since then men
ve gone back to work. Upwards of 200,000 persons have
eft the relief rolls and weekly expenditures have dropped
$500,000 a week. If the present upswing continues there will
pecial session of the Legislature should please taxpayers. “If |
Fred M. Kiefer
GIMME A
The celebration of Nation-
al Book Week this month gives
us an excuse to do something
we have always wished. Be-
lieving the best Americans
are those who are conversant
with their nation’s history we
herewith submit a list of books,
divided into three periods of
the country’s progress, which
cover, if not entirely, certainly
a broad field of the aims, am-
bitions and actions that have
i been written into our national
life.
EARLY GROWTH:
The Federalist Papers of
Hamilton, Jay and Madison,
published in one volume by the
National Home Library. These
papers constitute the basic
work of our Constitution.
The Making of our Consti-
tution, by Charles Warren.
Little, Brown and Co. The ac-
tual methods, agreements and
controversies in the drawing
up of the document.
Through The Years With
Our Constitution, by Henry W.
Elson. The Stratford Co. A
handy and important little vol-
ume which covers what the
title implies.
At least one good life of
Washington should be in every
library. We suggest for a
single volume, though some-
what caustic biography, that
of W. E. Woodward, Washing-
ton, The Image And The Man,
published by Boni, Liveright.
Collateral volumes to Wash-
ington and his times of much
merit are:
Jefferson and Hamilton, by
Claude G. Bower; Benjamin
Franklin, by Carl Van Doren;
Patrick Henry, by George Mor-
gan, Lippincott; Sam Adams,
by John C. Miller, Little,
'Brown & Co.; Aaron Burr, the
Proud Pretender, by Holmes
Alexander, Harpers; Mad An-
thony Wayne, by Thomas
| Boyd, Scribners; Renown, by
| Frank O. Hough, Carrick &
Evans, Life of Benedict Ar-
nold; Lafayette, by W. O.
Woodward, Farrar & Rinehart;
Winning of the West, 2 vols.,
by Theodore Roosevelt, Put-
man.
Beyond Washington but in
same are:
Andrew Jackson, by Mar-
quis James, Bobbs-Merrill;
Sutter of California, by Julian
Dana, Pioneer Press; The Ra-
ven, a life of Sam Houston, by
Marquis James, Bobbs-Merrill;
America’s Silver Age; The
Statecraft of Clay, Calhoun and
Webster, by Gerald W. John-
son.
CIVIL WAR:
Our own collection includes
fifty-seven lives of Lincoln but
for the average student we rec-
ommend the three following:
Abraham Lincoln, the Years,
iby Carl Sandburg. This two-
volume biography is generally
considered the most readable
of the Lincoln works, but as it
covers the Emancipator’s story
only up to his election we sug-
gest for the War Years, until
Sandburg’s four-volume work
of that title comes out in De-
cember, Wm. A. Barton’s Pres-
ident Lincoln. One volume
which covers the entire life,
written by an English scholar
and which is considered the
most literary Lincoln life, is
Lincoln, by Lord Charnwood.
| This book is now available in a
$1 reprint.
Of the hundreds of books
probably be no need for new taxes.
THANKSGIVING DAY
Thanksgiving Day, I fear
If one the solemn truth must touch,
Is celebrated, not so much
" To thank the Lord for blessings o'er,
As for the sake of getting more!
WiLL CARLETON
printed on Lincoln and the Ci-
vil War we are able to list on-
ly a few as collateral reading:
| ~ John Wilkes Booth, by Fran-
cis Wilson, Houghton-Mifflin;
Personal Memoirs of U. S.
Grant, now out of print; R. E.
Lee, four-volume definitive and
| monumental work of Douglas
|S. Freeman, Scribners; Sher-
| man, Fighting . Prophet, by
| Lloyd Lewis, Harcourt, Brace;
! Stonewall Jackson, by Col. G.
Howarp W. RisLEY
Hower E. Rees
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THE DALLAS POST
EstaBLISHED 1889
A Liberal, Independent Newspaper Published Every
Friday Morning At The Dallas Post Plant, Lehman
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Entered as second class matter at the Post Office at Dallas, Pa.,
under Act of March 3, 1879.
THE LOW DOWN FROM
HICKORY GROVE
One thing you can say °
about this melee in Eu-
rope, it is gonna get some
moths out of our geogra-
phies. And as she drifts
over toward Turkey and
Asia, it is going to bring
in maybe some Bible
names also. And when it
does so, there will be even
more dustin’ off to do.
This Turkey is going to
surprise you. If you went
to school around 25 years
ago, you will maybe think
the capital of Turkey is
Constantinople--like I did.
There is mo Comstanti-
nople any more—Constan-
tinople is mow Istanbul.
And in the second place
the capital of Turkey is
not in Europe in the first
place, it is in Asia, and it
is at Ankara or Angora—
whichever you want to
call it. I sure been brush-
in’ up.
A Turk, he is also
known as an Ottoman. Al-
so, he has Tartar blood—
his forefathers were scrap-
pers—and poison with a
shootin’ iron. There were
no sissy Tartars.
It is easy to see why
Stalin and Herr Adolph
are hesitating. They been
reading up on Tartars, al-
so.
—JO SERRA.
The Mail Bag
To The Public:
May I express to the men
and women of Luzerne Coun-
ty my heart-felt and deeply
sincere gratitude for the con-
fidence so many thousands of
them, my fellow-citizens, af-
forded my candidacy for that
(office which invites the most
of trust and faith, the office
of Judge of the Court of Com-
mon Pleas?
That more of them voted for
two of my rivals, and that only
two could be elected; such
factual circumstances does not
in the least alter or reduce my
appreciation. The recent cam-
paign was happily one in which
all candidates remained gen-
tlemen. I believe I conformed
my own conduct to that ideal.
Let us all continue to be
friends. That is to ask noth-
ing more than that we shall all
continue to be Americans on
the neighborly pattern to
which our heritage has dedi-
cated us.
John H. Bonin.
Hazleton, Pa.
Nevins, Appleton-Century;
Thaddeus Stevens, by Alphonse
Miller, Harpers; Diary of Gid-
Lincoln’s Secretary of the
Navy; Lee, Grant and Sher-
man, a comparison by an Eng-
lish authority, Burne; Flight
Into Oblivion, by A. J. Hanna,
the escape of the Confederate
Cabinet; Invisible Empire, by
Stanley F. Horn, Houghton-
Mifflin, an account of the or-
ganization and activities of the
original Ku Klux Klan
The finest one-volume his-
tory of the Civil War is that
by John Ford Rhodes, eminent
American historian.
For the Reconstruction Pe-
Tragic Era.
The speeches,
state papers of Abraham Lin-
and Hay’s exhaustive work,
Abraham Lincoln, Complete
Works.
PROGRESSIVE ERA AND
WORLD POWER:
Beveridge and the Progres-
sive Era, by Claude G. Bower,
War, by Frederick Palmer,
IF. R. Henderson, Longmans
(London) ;Fremont, by Allan
Pershing, Stokes; The Ram-
lia Sa Ee General Manager
Bin al Sa Managing Editor
Senin ef Mechanical Superintendent
eon Welles, the daily notes of
riod, Claude G. Bower's, The
letters and
coln are complete in Nicolay
Lit. Guild; State Papers of
Theodore Roosevelt, Executive
Ed., P. F. Collier & Son; New-
ton D. Baker—America At
Dodd, Meade; My Experiences
In The World War, by John J.
Fernbrook
operation
affairs.
THE POST’S CIVIC PROGRAM
1. A modern concrete highway leading from Dallas and
connecting with the Sullivan Trail at Tunkhannock.
2. A greater development of community consciousness
among residents of Dallas,
3. Centralization of local fire, and police protection.
4, Sanitary sewage systems for local towns.
5. A consolidated high school eventually, and better co-
between those that now exist.
6. Complete elimination of politics from local school
7. Construction of more sidewalks.
Trucksville,
Shavertown, and
javie aiche
SECOND
THOUGHTS
Two letters and two compli-
mentary book publications
reached your correspondent
this week. They are as far
apart as the poles in what they
portend.
From the F. W. Woolworth
Company, always generous to
its stockholders, came the
| amazing story of the table
with the red cover, the one on
which Frank Wainwright
articles to be bought on choice
for the sum of five cents. You
probably are acquainted with
the rest of a saga of fortune
that is not yet ended. Wool-
worth failed in New York and
won in Lancaster, Pa.
the Pennsylvania Germans,
the Mennonites and Amish, he
found his lure was perfection
for the frugal, and so the table
with the red cover grew into
a mighty chain that absorbed
rival chains and finally built
what at the time was the most
gargantuan of skyscrapers in
the metropolis where Wool-
worth landed after circuitous
journeys out of little Water-
town.
for that.
So much
. * * *
It was the second book that
gripped attention. The story
of Boys’ Town, Nebraska, was
in it. Father E. J. Flanagan
came out of Roscommon in
Ireland to seek his life’s career
in America.
usual affairs of the churc
and community wasn’t quite
what he wanted and he search-
{ed for the place where he
might answer to a real call.
Probably you know about
Boys’ Town, too. It recently
was made into a motion pic-
ture and it has been drama-
tized by the press in all its va-
ried manifestations. But, did
you know or did you remem-
ber that Boys’ Town is non-
sectarian? Impress on your
consciousness that a Catholic
priest bids for the Protestant,
the Mohammedan, the Hebrew,
the Confucian and all else that
might have been born into the
soul of a boy. He permits it
to stay there, too.
He says there is no such
thing as a bad boy. There is
bad environment, evil associ-
ation, tragic family conditions;
all these he will admit but he
finds no premise for what oth-
er people call a bad boy.
There is a young judge down
South who has proved the
same theory. He's modeling
after Father Flanagan and it
was a delight to hear him in-
troduced over the radio the
other night by the rejuvenated
Al Smith. He, the young
judge, knocked out the walls of
a reformatory and made it in-
to a self-operated community.
The worst boy brought to him
is chief of police there.
Well, what this scrivener
started out to suggest was that
if you have a five-dollar bill
you can spare it will get you
not so much as half a share 8f
Woolworth stock, though its
par value is only twice the
sum.
It will, however, make you
an honorary citizen of Boys’
Town in Nebraska.
And it would be a pretty
good Christmas present from
you to you.
parts We Watch, by Col.
George E. Eliott, which covers
our present day position in the
world and our preparedness.
In conclusion we might add
James Truslow Adams’ The
Epic of America, a well-round-
ed history of our country writ-
ten in Mr. Adams’ {friendly
manner and with his inevitable
charm, together with that most
interesting work of Roger Bur-
lington’s, March of the Irom
Men, which covers the story of
History in the tracks of In-
vention.
Woolworth at a little town in|.
York State displayed assorted |
Among |
Ordination to the | 1 :
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Edith Blez
One day last week I helped
conduct a rummage sale. You
might wonder why I should
want to write about anything
as dull as a rummage sale, but
you see it was my very first
rummage sale and it was quite
ence indeed! It seems that I
have grown so accustomed to
my daily routine, to my secure
way of life that I really didn’t
know that there were people
who stood out in the pouring
rain- waiting for the doors
where a rummage sale was be-
ing held, to open, so they
might purchase articles of
clothing and discarded pieces
of furniture which you and I
would think were too useless,
or too torn, or too faded for
further use.
* * *
I feel quite sure I wasn’t
very much help to the people
who were conducting the rum-
mage sale, and I sincerely hope
the church will forgive me for
my indifference to the money
they might have made if I had
charged more for the articles
I sold. It was difficult for me
to take money from the poor
creatures who came into that
store. I was so busy watching
the crowd which milled
through the door and grabbed,
and pulled things from each
other’s hands I found it almost
too difficult to take their
nickels and dimes, money
which many of them had tied
securely in the corner of a soil-
ed handkerchief.
* * *
I shall remember for a long
time the girl who came with
her mother to find a dress.
The girl apparently was not
quite normal mentally and she
was so anxious for a dress. It
was pitiable to watch the eag-
erness on her face when she
saw all the dresses hanging on
a line. Almost immediately her
eyes found a dress with a red
velvet top. The dress was
hopelessly out of date. It had
been hanging in the back of
some one’s wardrobe for a long
long, time. But it didn’t seem
to matter. The girl wanted it
{and when I wrapped it for her
she hugged it to her as chil-
dren hug their new dolls on
Christmas morning. Her moth-
er hurried her out because she
said she had only twenty-five
cents to spend, and she couldn’t
bear to disappoint the girl if
she saw something else she
might want. ’
I followed an old colored
woman around, helping her to
find children’s clothes. She
THE SENTIMENTAL SIDE
told me she had lots of chil-
dren and they needed so many
things. They couldn’t have
been her children because her
hair was white, and her step
was not very firm, but she
kept talking about all her chil-
dren and please couldn’t I find
them something to wear. She
said she had to work hard ev-
ery day from early morning
until late at night to take care
of all her children. Perhaps
they were not her children,
but children who had adopted
her! She was so kind and
open-hearted,
have taken to her like bees to
a flower. Her heart was as
big as the proverbial bucket.
She wanted a coat to keep her
warm when the wind was
“high and awful bad.” W
didn’t have a woman’s coat
which would go around her
ample exterior but we did have
a man’s large overcoat. She
bought the man’s overcoat. She
bought the man’s overcoat be-
cause she sad ‘“Men’s over-
coats is always good and warm
—men folks sure know how to
keep out the cold.”
* * *
There were old men hunting
for shoes with good soles, it
didn’t seem to matter how
worn the tops were. There
were women searching through
piles of clothing for winter un-
derwear for their men folk.
There were young girls look-
ing for hats and dresses which
were better than the ones they
had on. One young man
bought three faded lamp
shades, and several hours later
he came back to exchange one
because the color didn’t ex-
actly match the wall paper in
the living room. We sold all
the books to one young fellow
who said he simply couldn’t
get enough to read. I didn’t
want to hurt his feelings by
inquiring if he had ever tried
the Public Library. We didn’t
have enough shoes to supply
the demand and three evening
dresses we had almost caused
a riot!
#* * *
It was my first rummage
sale and I suspect I got much
less than I should have from
the poor wretches who came in
the door so hopefully. I would
have given them everything
they wanted, but I was told
that we were there to make
money! So I was forced into
doing my duty, and I hope
some of the ladies in charge
never find out how many ex-
tra things I sneaked into some
of the slim packages.
children must
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