A SR
tae
a
ha
A Fach 4
Wonder what's ahead ?
CINHE § WATCH
—DBy FRED KIEFER
—
Our calendar for the next eight months gives us a forecast of gen-
eralities.
June brings the Republican convention and no sooner does it
fade than the Democrats take the field in July. August is always a war
crisis month, although if the present battle on French and Belgian soil
is not a crisis then a crisis should be hard to find. Main votes in Sep-
tember and remember—as though
nation does not always go as Main has gone.
radio,
boil in October — press,
pamphlet and word of mouth —1I
dread it! November we elect a
President or, specifically speaking,
we voted wrong. In December all
the big business voices will tell us
what to expect in 1941 and in Jan-
uary the 77th Congress will be seat-
ed.
The United States News asks:
“Is a war business boom ahead?
Can the U. S. keep out of war?
What curb on war profits will be
set up? :
How high will prices go? Wages?
What taxes will be needed to pay
for the rearmament program?
What's next in pension plans?”
Well, they're all yours. Go ahead.
Dorothy Thompson advocates a
Democratic-Republican coalition
ticket with F. D. R. for President
and Wendell Willkie for Vice-Pres-
ident. Damon Runyon, whose race
track touts make better reading in
stories than his political belches,
agrees with Dorothy, and says most
of the people he has discussed the
matter with are pig-headed Ameri-
cans. I can believe that!
That brings up the question of
inaugurating a Non-Partisan Party
and having it appear on the ballot
as such. The independents can then
vote for whom they believe best
fitted for the office when they go
to the polls at the primaries. Some-
times they do now in the general
election. It sounds pretty Ameri-
can to me.
1 know you don’t expect any help
from me on these questions. But if
they haven't been cleared up by the
first of the year and if I haven't
forgotten what they are in the
meantime I'll get around and find
out for you.
Mark Twain once claimed that he
was almost driven insane by a silly
jingle about “A buff tip slip for a
two sent fare, etc.,” or words to that
effect and he had, eventually, to
write a story about it to clear his
mind and to preserve his health.
I am in a like situation now. It
seems every time I pick up a novel
these days I come across a reference
to a great pair of lovers (or a great
pair of something or other) from
the pages of history. The names |
ring smoothly, prettily on the
‘tongue. Below you find my mental
cathartic, which if it troubles you,
does relieve me.
The Inseparable
Troilus and Cressida — Astrophal
and Stella.
Pericles, Aspasia—Tristram and
Isolde.
Daphnis . and his Chloe—Johnny
Wilkes and lkey Barre. 3
Aucassin and Nicolete—Romeo
and Juliet.
Venus and Adonis—Rotary, Ki-
wanis.
Firestone and Ford—Montgomery
and Ward.
Currier and Ives—U. S. A. and Mr.
Dies.
Abelard and Eloise — Charlie,
and Frank and Walt Dewees.
Cupid and Psyche—Pajamas and
Nightie.
Odyssey and Iliad—Confess that
here I falter. ;
Jefferson and Hamilton—Fowler,
Dick and Walker.
\ David and Goliath—here
damn thing endeth.
You, my fine birds, supply the
punctuation and I'll serve the time.
the
While in many respects there is
nothing analogous between this war
and World War I, it is interesting
to copy from the record that dur-
ing 1914-1918 copper shot up to 30c
a pound. Housewives paid $1 a
dozen for eggs! Bethlehem Steel
rose to $700 per share! Yet, West-
inghouse electric declined from 73 to
47! Well, when I came to this sec-
tion I couldn’t even read Sanskrit,
now I'm laughing all the time!
DAILY DOZEN
(From the Medical Society of
the State of Pennsylvania)
How much tuberculosis in Penn-
sylvania ?
Complete figures for 1938 show
a great deal of it.
Exactly 12,114 persons were
treated for tuberculosis in the state.
These were in institutions where
regular treatment is given.
Many persons in advanced stages
of the disease sought treatment.
Delay in entering a sanatorium
makes the treatment more diffi-
cult.
Such cases remaining outside are
a source of infection to others.
The average tuberculosis patient
remains 171 days in a sanatorium.
There are 6,046 beds available
for such patients today, 786 waiting
for beds.
Adequate sanatorium care includ-
es prevention and treatment.
Rehabilitative care to prevent re-
currence of the disease is vital.
Tuberculosis costs many millions
annually and presents a great eco-
nomic problem.
anyone could forget 1936—that the
The campaign comes to a
THE LOW DOWN FROM
HICKORY GROVE
I picked up a paper
from out on the Coast—
at Berkeley—and the edi-
tor. there, he says, “What
good is a budget, any-
way?’ Pardner, that old
Native Son survives.
If you have been har-
boring the idea that in
California, the folks there
just loll on the seashore
and pick an orange or an
avocado when they are
hungry, you are seeing a
mirage.
Budgetitis is epidemic—
it is laying them low
everywhere. And while I
am talking about Cali-
fornia, I see where in Sac-
ramento a feller talking
for the Federal Surplus
Commodities Corp. says,
“this is the first time in
history that humans have
suffered because of abun-
dance.” Sure sounds queer
—it is too deep for me.
But it is likewise in Chi-
cago, where the Gout. is
telling Mr. Canepa how to
make spaghetti. When you
start telling an Italian
how to make spaghetti,
you are just around the
‘corner from a guardian.
But everything will
turn out all right, I guess
—we have already begun
to recuperate from Gone
with the Wind.
Yours with the low down,
JO SERRA.
1
BOOKS
= [ contribute to the
' The Blaze of Noon by Rayner
Heppenstall. Published by Al-
liance Book Corp. Price $2.50.
Rayner Heppenstall,
achieved considerable fame in Eng-
land as a poet, has taken to novel-
writing and presents in “The Blaze
of Noon” an illuminating study of
the love-life of a blind man. Eliza-
beth Bowen, in her introduction,
heralds the book as the beginning
of a new era in English literature,
as the most honest approach to the
subject of love since D. H. Lawrence.
Although the book itself does not
meet such a lofty position, its candid
treatment of the story of Louis Dun-
can, who dominated his blindness, is
new and memorable. :
The action of the story takes
place on the country estate of a
wealthy, domineering, middle-aged
woman, Mrs. Nance, where Louis
Duncan, her blind masseuse, has
come to treat her. The Nance house-
hold is occupied by a dependent
niece and nephew, Sophie and John,
both of whom are involved at the
time of his arrival in somewhat un-
satisfactory affairs—John with his
brassy, calculating fiancee, and So-
phie, unhappy and * maladjusted,
having lived consistently with men
since the age of 13, with a radical
laborer. Into this scene of eroti-
cism comes Louis Duncan, himself
accomplished and experienced in
the game of love.
Duncan sees himself in the light
of a sort of superman, having con-
quered his infirmity to such a re-
markable extent that his necessarily
keener perceptions of touch, smell,
i taste, besides his professional talent
have made him an alert, fascinating
person. In a household of insecure,
groping persons, he is the only self-
assured, adjusted individual.
His subsequent love affair with
Sophie is frankly and graphically
described. The appearance of a
blind, deaf, and mute cousin, Amity
Nance, brings about the break of
Duncan’s security. In this help-
less, pitiful creature he perceives a
caricature of himself. He is over-
whelmed by the sense of pity that
normal persons feel for him, by the
consciousness of what he has missed
through blindness, and by the
awareness of his separateness, re-
moteness from fellow humans.
Duncan flees, leaving Sophie, who
has come to love him sincerely.
His former * assurance is finally
achieved.
Heppenstall has drawn his deeply
sympathetic study of the blind man
with rare insight and sensitivity.
The technical construction of “Blaze
of Noon” itself is direct and pene-
trating, but somewhat disunified,
for the book progresses from one
“episode” to another and is inter-
spersed with the dreams and re-
membrances of the principal char-
acters.
This is a short book and words
aren’t wasted. It is compact and
clear.
who has
100 MUCH
Copyright 1940 Lincoln Newspaper Features, Inc
pees ee min
es % ZZ : el
ANYWAY !
A
THE SENTIMENTAL SIDE|
By EDITH BLEZ-
YOUTH, AHOY!
This column should have been written last week when the appeals
were warm for contributions to the American Red Cross, but I am always
behind time. This time I am wondering if by being behind time I can’t
influence a few people who have failed to give their bit toward war re-
lief. To many of us war relief is just another empty phrase, just something
we read in the daily newspaper.
We have heard it for years, and even
now when we see the phrase in newspaper columns, we always think
someone else will take care of it, and we rest assured that it isn’t up fo
us to worry about war relief.
But this time it is up to us and
I firmly believe that we should sit
up and take notice. We go around
shaking our heads sorrowfully at
the misery in the world. We tell
our neighbors how sorry we are
and that is really about as far as it |-
goes. We feel that there isn’t very
much that we as individuals can do
to help. But we can help! We can
American Red
Cross!
I wonder how many of us ever
really try to imagine ourselves in
the plight of the refugees of Europe?
Certainly we don’t! We can’t! We
are too secure. We are Americans!
We have been taught since we
were babies that we are safe—
safe from war—safe from the diffi-
culties which have menaced the rest
of the world! We believe that it is
only the people in foreign countries
who are forced to leave their
homes. It is only the people in the
war torn countries of Europe who
must walk miles and miles to a
place where bombs are not bursting
overhead. It is only the other peo-
ple who are shot down in the streets.
We sit in our darkened movie
houses and shudder at the newsreels
and it never consciously enters our
minds that such things could hap-
pen to us. We are convinced that
the American way is the safe way, |
the sure way. Most of the time we
turn deaf ears and blind eyes to
the people in the world who are not
as fortunate as we seem to be. We
mustn't be selfish in our security.
We must realize that French, Bel-
gian and Dutch people are human
beings just as you and I. We must
believe that these people loved their
homes, too, and that they lived con-
tented in small towns just as we
do. They, too, went /about their
daily routine firm in the belief that
life was secure and that they would
see their children grow into fine
men and women. Now a great ma-
jority of those people have lost their
homes, have lost all they held
dear. Children have lost their par-
ents, and parents have lost their
children. The men are all at war
and the people are living from hour
to hour never knowing what horror
a new day will bring. There is no
longer hope in their lives. They have
seen how terrible life can be. They
no longer feel that life is important.
They no longer have roofs over their
heads and they no longer gather
their families together for the even-
ing meal. There is no bread, there
is no table, there is no home!
How can we sit here so safe and
think of the refugees of the world
and not contribute to the Red Cross.
Moral support means nothing! It
isn’t enough that we are sorry. It
isn‘t enough that we realize how
terrible the situation really is. We
must give if it is only a little. We
must all give so that the wretched
civilians in war torn Europe can
have food, and a place to sleep,
and clothes for their backs. The
refugees look to us for help. They
know that we will help. We must
help the thousands of suffering peo- |
ple who hope against hope that
America will at least see to it that
they have enough to eat!
One of the few remaining octag-
onal school buildings in Pennsyl-
vania is the Diamond Rock school
house, located two miles east of
Devault in Chester County.
“More than a mewspaper,
a community institution”
ESTABLISHED 1889
THE DALLAS POST
A non-partisan, liberal
progressive mewspaper
published every Friday
morning at its plant on
Lehman Avenue, Dallas,
Penna., by the Dallas
Post, Inc. !
Entered as second class
matter at the post office at
Dallas, Pa., under the Act of
March 3, 1879. Subscription,
$2 a year, payable in advance.
Howard W. Risley....... ‘Manager
, Howell E. Rees................. Editor
Harold J. Price... Mech. Supt.
HARRISBURG
WHIRLIGIG
The Republican State Committee
and the Governor's office were
swamped last Thursday morning by
telephone, wire and mail requests
for copies of Governor James’
speech at St. Paul, Minn. Wednes-
day night. His bold demand that
Congress remain in session during
the present European crisis won in-
stant approval from many non-po-
litical groups.
Although not an active candidate
for the Republican nomination for
President, Governor James was
unanimously endorsed for that of-
fice by the Republican State Com-
mittee at the biennial meeting in
Philadelphia. On the same day the
Pennsylvania delegates and alter-
nate delegates to the National Con-
vention adopted a resolution to sup-
port Governor James for President
“as long as they feel in their honest
opinion that there is a chance for
his nomination.”
Poem To Parents
By Frances Frost
I would suppose,
while a child grows,
while a child gives,
to whatever lives
the finer part
of his brave heart,
I would suppose,
that we had more
to return than war.
FREEDOM
The columnists and con-
tributors on this page are
allowed great latitude in
expressing their own opin-
ions, even when their
opinions are at variance
with those of The Post
By AUNT CAL
One of the most powerful thoughts
that I know of was expressed by a
very religious man upon behold-
ing a drunkard pass by—“There,
but for the grace of God, go L”
This thought brings us to some
very fundamental questions. Just
how near to equality are we at
birth, and what causes our lives to
branch out in so many different
directions? Is a person at birth
destined to be a great man or a
mean one?
We all must recognize that people
are ‘not born with equal powers.
Physically there are such differences
as color of hair, eyes, and skin;
size, weight, and general condition
of health; and in special qualities
such as strength, eyesight, sense of
hearing, smell, touch, and taste,
resistance to disease, etc.
Mentally there are similar differ-
ences. Some people can learn fast,
while others must work much hard-
er to accomplish the same result.
Some are gifted with remarkable
powers of memory, musical ability,
artistic taste, or perhaps the ability
to reason, while others are weak
in these qualities.
Some people are greatly sustained
by their religious faith, or by emo-
tional satisfactions, or by a sense of
achievement, while others seem to
which effect a person's opportuni-
ties to develop.
A person's development will be
dependent on such conditions even
as the development of a plant is de-
pendent upon sunlight, rainfall, and
condition of soil. However, there is
this difference, that man can change
his environment and improve upon
it. Also, he can deliberate upon his
advantages and shape his life in the
best possible direction.
And here is the important matter
to each individual. What are your
strong points, and how can they be
developed in order to make your
life a success? For instance, if you
have good mathematical ability, it
might be well to consider training
for an accountant, a scientist, or
some job which requires the use of
figures. If, on the other hand, you
are especially good at athletics and
sports, you might consider becoming
an athletic director or a teacher of
gymnastics.
By trying to harness your good
points to a vocation, you will be in
a better position to meet competi-
tion than if you try to overcome
weaknesses in order to enter some
vocation. For, remember, there is
always keen competition for any
worth while vocation, and only the
most fit will attain the greatest
success except by almost superhu-
man effort. ¥
So long until next" week.
Two miles east of Cresson on
Route 22 is the only remaining
skew arch bridge and the first of
its kind in the United States.
TO NEW YOR
K?
fi MODERN ACCOMMODATIONS
FRIENDLY SERVICE
IDEAL LOCATION
300 ROOMS — 300 BATHS
Write for Free Guide Book
“SEEING NEW YORK"
H. H. Commiags, Mor.
be lacking in these great helps. | here remaining as apathetic to dan-
Then there are all the variations of i ger as England was in confronting
race, creed, wealth, climate, na-|the Hitler re-arming of Germany.
tionality, section of the world, etc.,: Only editors at a distance, and with
I SECOND THOUGHTS
By javie aiche
Four judges of Luzerne County Court, one for each cardinal point of
the compass, collaborated in the construction of new confidence, not only
in the Constitutional rights of free Americans but as well in control by
conscience, when President Judge B.
entine, John J. Aponick and John S.
R. Jones, the Honorable W. A. Val-
Fine concurred last week in modifi-
cation of the Pennsylvania Bar Association’s injunction against the will-
book of Stanley M. Yetter.
The connotation of conscience is in the fact
that the book’s author was in danger of being denied a means of liveli-
hood.
For the fifth judge, acting as
Chancellor in the case, let all due
credit be paid. The Honorable
Thomas F. Farrell had the courage
to change his mind. In doing so he
wrote for the court en banc the final
decision in a saga of restraint that
began with a preliminary injunction
last December, achieved a climax
in a permanent enjoiner of Febru-
ary 28 and then came to anti-climax
with the unsealing of the third edi-
tion of “A Practical Aid to Execu-
tives and Administrators of Dece-
dents’ Estates.”
Tremendous comfort and consola-
tion can be acquired from contem-
plation of courts jealous in their re-
gard for. justice and susceptible to
human consideration. For at least
a score of years Stanley Yetter was
a parachutist politico in the forward
drive of the Republican Party in Lu-
zerne County. He even had a song
written about him. Having spent
16 years and a fortune in the public
service he had left to his future
only the knowledge of wills and
estates that he incorporated in his
treaties for guidance of administra-
tors and executors. On the techni-
cal or ethical side of the dispute,
then, it could be said that Yetter
spent at least twice as many years
on one specialty in the law as the
average law graduate devotes to the
wide web of its intricacies as re-
vealed in preparatory college and
university. By one who observed at
every step the progress of the case
it may be assumed that the court
unanimously concluded that to deny
Yetter his right of specialized publi-
cation might deprive him of his
most available means of making a
living. Beyond that there was a
question whether Pennsylvania Bar
Association had chosen the most
conspicuous case of lay practice of
the legal procession. The Philadel-
phia Inquirer, the house of Simon &
Schuster, The Forum, many banks
and trust companies, were issuing
advisory pamphlets and affording a
variety of services that could have
been made more shining targets.
And no one can criticize the crowd-
ed law profession attempting a
bloodless blitzkrieg against the in-|
vaders. It seemed, though, that hav- |
ing eliminated Yetter they were
about to declare an armistice ad
short of a true conquest.
Assured, above all else, is the ac- |
quisition of proof that the junior |
Frank P. Sattery, even with his,
brilliant father on the other side of |
the contest, rates with the finest
lawyers Pennsylvania has produced.
When the fact of permanent injunc-
tion menaced he refused to lose
heart. The newspapers were dis-
couraging when nearest to the scene
of action. There was no contribu-
tion of a fund to carry the case to
the higher tribunals, the publishers |
their pockets locked, howled to high
heaven.
The common sense of the junior
Slattery lay in his belief that five
judges in Luzerne County represent
as high a degree of Americanism
as can be found on the entire con-
tinent. None of them, as shown in
the final decision, brief as it was,
took seriously the likelihood of men-
ace to free press. So, Attorney
Slattery’s duty, grasped without sec-
ond thought, was to achieve hearing
of exceptions and an exchange of in-
telligence among five men through
a court en banc adjudication of the
issue.” The duty accepted is the ac-
complishment achieved.
The human sensitiveness of the
judges cut short what might have
been an educational as well as po-
triotic high flight of the dispute
among the lawyers. By dint of re-
search and by plumbing the farthest |
depths of his devotion to the Star;
Spangled Banner the eloquent John!
Henry Dando, Chief Council of The |
Pennsylvania State Authority under |
Governor James, was to have resur- |
rected and newly caparisoned the'
great careers of Wilkes and Barre
and other primates who struggled
out of medievalism into the full con-
cept of liberty and its appreciation.
“SMILING SERVICE ALWAYS”
OLIVER'S GARAGE
Packard and Hudson Cars |
White and Indiana Trucks |
DALLAS, PENNA, |
FOOTNOTES
By EMMONS BLAKE |
For the last few weeks I have
been tardy in getting this column
to the linotype operator and I have
been warned that I will have to be
more punctual if I want it to appear
on this page. It doesn’t seem as
though I can get away with it here
as well as I did in high school.
I don’t know why, but it never
seemed sporting to me to get term
papers and “weekly themes in be-
fore they were due. Sometimes I
would hand them in on the day that
was set, but more often I would
hand them in late. In fact, I de-
veloped it into almost an art. Dif-
ferent techniques had to be used
with different teachers. One of the
best methods is to approach the
teacher with: “What did I get on
my paper ?”’—letting your jaw drop
convincingly when informed that
your paper was not received after
a short argument in which the in-
structor must always have the up-
per hand, discover the ‘lost’ theme:
and nobly admit that he was right
in saying that you had misplaced it.
For the understanding teacher, walk
meekly up to the desk and look at:
the clock or at the calendar, as the
case may be, and in a very small
voice say: “Am I really very late?”
The old “I thought you said Fri-
day,” doesn‘t fool many teachers
now, and ‘better late than never”
is no good at all.
Last year in English class, I found
myself late as usual in handing in
an assignment, after being warned
that all papers not in on time
would be graded “F.” The assign-
ment was to boil down any long
news item into a few pithy sen-
tences, and was to be handed in
Friday morning. Monday morning
I put into operation what I thought :
was a perfect plan. I stepped up to
the teacher's desk with my late
paper in my left hand and started
to thumb through the pile on his
desk with my right. He looked
and asked what I was doing and I
answered that I was trying to see
what my grade was. He said: “You
know that I haven't graded those
papers yet. Put your paper back!”
I went to my seat laughing to my- 37
self and thinking that I had really
put one over that time but when '
my paper came back marked “F” the '
next day, I really felt foolish, for
the clipping that I had chosen: to.
condense was a story about some-
thing that had happened a day after
the paper should have been sub-
mitted. wd
But since there is no sport in get- t
ting copy in late to the linotype
operator, I'll have to forget high
school fun and meet the deadline. =
(Editor’s note: This was received :
too late for publication last week!)
Probably the younger Slattery t
will have gain from his victory, gain
from the fame and new clients he
deserves. But, be certain that the
lawyers of Luzerne County, no less
than the courts, were conscious at’
every. moment of the so-called
emergency of the free press, wholly
conscious of no real intention to'
mar the grand American picture. |
Why, one of the most conspicuous
contenders of the injunction has
been marked by a self-appointed
committee of patrioteers who con-
fuse regard for civil rights with
imagined work of a mythical fifth
column.
FURNACES and
AIR CONDITIOMING
Manufacturers and Installers
mrss OF ie
PITTSTON FURNACES and
AIR CONDITIONING
THREE YEARS TO PAY
Estimating Done
No Obligation
CLEANING and REPAIRS
TO ALL MAKE HEATERS
PITTSTON STOVE CO.
Seventy-nine Years of Faith-
ful Service.
°
J. J. BARRETT
Factory Engineer
— Phone Pittston 600 —
An International
is Truthful —Constructive—Unbiased—Free from Sensational.
Features, Together with the Weekly Magazine Section, Make
the Monitor an Ideal Newspaper for the Home.
Da#ly Newspaper
Introductory Offer,
>
»
4 ism — Editorials Are Timely and Instructive and Its Daily
y
»
)
>
The Christian Science Publishing Society
Ose, Norway Street, Boston, Massachusetts
i Price $12.00 Yearly, or $1.00 a Month.
Saturday Issue, including Magazine Section, $2.60 a Year.
6 Issues 25 Cents.
rr
ON REQUEST
ES
{