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Editorially Speaking:
. . . Not Because We Want War
Well, gentlemen, it looks
like war.
It looks like economic war at first, with the possibility
of totalitarian war lurking nervously in the background.
Peace, as we have known it, is dead.
The United States of America, as Wendell Willkie
pointed out so dramatically
last Saturday afternoon, is
starting down a “road of sacrifice and of service.”
“In these months ahead,” Mr. Willkie said, “every man
who works . . . will have to work a little harder.
and woman will feel the burden of taxes.
will have to plan a little more
Every man
Every housewife
carefully . . . You will have to
be hard of muscle, clear of head, brave of heart.”
We'll take that challenge, Mr. Willkie. As individuals,
each with a tiny but essential
share in the responsibility for
the preservation of our way of living, we'll help.
And here’s how we’ll do
it, here in our little corner of
the country, in Dallas and Kingston Township and Lehman
and Laketon.
First, we'll try to fix clearly in our minds what democ-
racy is.
We'll try to remember that it is liberty and free-
dom and tolerance and charity and humility and unselfish-
ness and faith. We'll try to
avoid rash acts which, under
the guise of patriotism, might soil the ideals of democracy.
We'll avoid hysteria.
FBI Chief J. Edgar Hoover:
We'll remember the advice of
“It is as essential to preserve
civil liberties as it is to track down those who engage in
espionage and sabotage.” We'll remember that other people
have a Constitutional right to opinions.
We'll discourage
any of our neighbors who favor the intolerant, fanatical,
rough-house methods of Hitler and Mussolini.
We'll do what we can about guarding our public of-
fices against the kind of political partisanship and bitter-
ness and corruption which weakened France.
We'll try to
remember that what's important now is national unity and
we'll support the leaders who
can bring us together, instead
of those who would divide us.
As many of our young men who are able we’ll send into
the army and the air force and the navy, so they will be
trained, healthy fighters if we have to call on them.
We read that in Hamilton, O., and Lexington, Mass.,
mostly everybody is either learning how to handle a gun or
studying military strategy or playing at war.
That’s the
way the greatest army in the history of the world began in
Germany, years before they
had Stukas and. tanks and
Maybe we can get something like that started.
Our schools will be opening again in a few weeks.
They’ll re-examine democracy and explain to the youngsters
that democracy isn’t something you can take for granted,
like sunlight or eyesight, but that if you don’t nourish it,
it dies, as it died in Athens, Rome, Florence, Venice, Ghent
and Bruges.
We aren’t very important industrially, but we'll serve
as best we can in getting ready to defend our country. We
understand there are to be about 4,000 new airports built
in the country, including underground ports, similar to those
which Germany uses.
Our neighborhood, smack on the edge
of the important hard coal area and crowded with mills of
all sizes and shapes, should be a likely spot for one of those
underground airports.
We'll do these things mot because we hate the
Germans or because we
want to fight or because
we're after conquest. We'll do it becouse, as free,
responsible individuals, we see at last that curs is
the cause on which the
pends.
hope of all mankind de-
We didn’t ask for it, Mister Hitler, but if war's what
you want, we'll be ready, too.
POST
SCRIPTS
THE NOTE READ “I wil anser
awl kwestions on subjecks purtin-
ent to the campagne at a press kon-
ference tomorow afternoon at 3 in
yore offis.”
It was on our desk when we came
to work one morning’ this week and
underneath the message, in the
same bold scrawl, was the signa-
ture, “Eph McCoy, Buckskin candi-
date for President of the United
States of Americka.”
We laid plans immediately to be
far away from the “offis” at 3, but
someone came in and detained us
and before we could take it on the
lam the Buckskin standard-bearer
had walked through the side wall
and then it was too late. !
Ralph Hazeltine says he knows
how old Eph is. All we know is
that McCoy fought in the Revolu-
tion and was the first settler in
Dallas Township. In the three or
four years we've known Eph he’s
become a sort of magnificent nui-
sance. We no longer jump when we
turn and see him, with the sun
streaming through him. We don’t
even mind the musty smell of
graveyards, pine boughs and wood-
smoke which clings to him. But the
outfit he’d collected for his press
conference was enough to frighten
anybody. Only the fact that we
were sitting down saved us from
complete collapse.
—_———
HE WAS STILL wearing his
shapeless coonskin hat, with the tail
hanging limply over one shoulder.
But he had replaced his leather
jerkin with a skin-tight swallow
tail coat which had climbed up his
broad shoulders until most of it
was bunched at the back of his
neck. Under that he had a yellow
vest embroidered with pink chry-
santhemums. His fawn colored
tights had been made, it was obvi-
ous, for a well-fed man, and they
hung, like sails in a windless sea.
from Eph’s lean flanks, flowing
down into a pair of champagne-
colored button shoes. He was grin-
nig proudly.
We shuddered. “Now I'm sure
I'll vote for Willkie.”
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Sanitation Drive
Brings Results
Stevenson Pleased With
Response To Crusade
An intensive drive by Chief Ira
C. Stevenson to enforce sanitation
laws at Harvey's Lake has given
cottagers at the resort better health
conditions this summer than ever
before.
Of the 37 offenders discovered
when Chief Stevenson began the
crusade to find cottages where sew-
age drained into the lake only two
were left this week. One offender
was arrested and the other prom-
ised to correct the condition. A
| third family was notified and re-
medied the situation immediately.
In his inspection of camp sites
this week, Chief Stevenson found
several violations where campers
had departed and left the grounds
in bad shape. Because all campers
must register at the police station,
the chief was able to trace the of-
| fenders. He gave them 24 hours to
clean up the sites or face prosecu-
tion.
Dallas Rotary Host
To District Governor
Rock L. Butler of Wellsboro, gov-
ernor of the 177th District of In-
ternational Rotary, was the speaker
at the weekly supper-meeting of
Dallas Rotary Club last night. It
was Mr. Butler's annual visit to the
local service club. Calvin McHose,
president, welcomed the visiting of-
ficer warmly in behalf of the club
and community.
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MORE THAN A NEWSPAPER, A COMMUNITY INSTITUTION
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Vol. 50
Smith Proclaims
Day In Tribute
To Corey Frantz
Calls Upon Townstolk
To Honor Civic Leader
Who Recently Retired
Burgess Herbert A. Smith of Dal-
las last night proclaimed next
Thursday (August 29) as “Corey
Frantz Day”, when townsfolk will
join in a warm-hearted gesture of
appreciation for the contribution
C. A. Frantz, banker, retired busi-
ness man and long-time resident,
has made to Dallas.
Mr. Frantz, who retired recently
after 40 years as a businessman
here, will be the guest of honor,
with Mrs. Frantz, at a reception to
be held at the Dallas Methodist
Church on Thursday evening at 8,
at the end of a day during which he
and his wife will be at home to their
friends and neighbors.
“No man has done more for Dal-
las than Mr. Frantz,” said Burgess
Smith, who conceived the observ-
ance. “He has seen the borough
grow from a sprawling, rural village
with dirt streets to a thriving com-
munity with paved highways, elec-
tric lights and every improvement
that signifies a prosperous town.
“Mr. Frantz has taken part in all
of this, and for his efforts we should
put aside a day in his honor. Mr.
Frantz opened his store on Main
Street in a frame building in 1900,
and continued business there un-
til he erected his present building
in 1908. He has served on Dallas
Borough council and has been presi-
dent of the local bank for seven
years.
Generous Civic Leader
“No request made of Mr. Frantz
for any civic contribution has ever
been refused. No request for his
time has ever been turned down.
He has been an outstanding leader
in all community affairs. Since his
retirement, his counsel and advice
have been of the utmost value to
ithose who now carry on.
“No man has had Dallas’s wel-
fare more at heart than Mr. Frantz
and no man has helped more to
bring Dallas to its present position
as the business center of this area.
The committee planning ° the
church reception has as members
the following old friends of Mr.
Frantz: Sterling Machell, Corey Gor-
don, Morgan Wilcox, James Frank-
lin, Wesley Himmler, Ray Shiber,
Ralph A. Rood, Clark Hildebrant,
George T. Kirkendall, Warden Kun-
kle, Dr. J. C. Fleming, Dr. G. K.
Swartz, Nesbitt A. Garinger, Ralph
Hallock and John Frantz.
The active committee will be
made up of James R. Oliver, Clyde
Lapp, Peter D. Clark, John Durbin
and H. A, Smith.
Members of the reception com-
mittee will be Rev. and Mrs. Francis
F. Freeman, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph L.
Brickel, Mr. and Mrs. Sterling Ma-
chell, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur R. Dun-
gey, Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Smith and
Mr. and Mrs. James Ayre.
Mrs. John Durbin and her class
will serve the refreshments. Mrs.
Harold Rood, Mrs. James Oliver and
Mrs. William Baker will have charge
of the music. Mrs. Peter Clark and
Mrs. Stanley Davies will arrange
flowers. Attorney B. B. Lewis will
be toastmaster.
Ratchford Begins Work
On Deep Fernbrook Cut
Ratchford and Sons of Nanticoke,
contractors who are doing the grad-
ing on the spur highway into Dal-
las, yesterday began work on a cut
through the sidehill above Fern- (sity, who will take the place of |
brook Park, just west of where the
spur will join with the relocated
Route 92.
About 30,000 cubic yards of earth
must be moved to make way for
the new highway and for Toby's
Creek, which will be relocated. It
will probably take about two weeks
to complete the cut. Ratchford’s
big machinery has been working at
top speed all week and has been
making rapid progress against some
fairly stiff handicaps.
The council of Dallas probably
will be asked within a few days to
propose to the State Highway De-
partment that it make certain
changes in its plans for construction
of a bridge at the intersection of
Mill Street and the new spur road
into Dallas.
The culvert through which Toby's
Creek will pass under the highway
will be a short distance south of
the old Mill Street bridge, which
MAY ASK STATE TORECONSIDER
SITE FOR MILL STREET BRIDGE
was torn out this week, and as a
result motorists will have to make
a “U” turn onto the new highway
from Mill Street, instead of crossing
it at right angles as in the past.
The cramped turn would be es-
pecially inconvenient for the big
fire truck, which is housed on the
north side of the creek and would
have to negotiate the turn every
time it answered an alarm which
took it through the central part of
town.
FRIDAY, AUGUST
1
Burgess Smith
. who has proclaimed next
Thursday as “Corey Frantz Day.”
23, 1940 -
TWO OF PRINCIPALS IN ‘COREY FRANTZ DAY"
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Mr. Frantz
. who will receive the thanks
of his neighbors and friends.
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CALENDAR OF HOLIDAYS
FOR LEHMAN SCHOOL IS
ANNOUNCED BY SNYDER
H. Austin Snyder, supervising
principal of Lehman township
school * district; “has ‘announced
the following cal-udar of holi-
days for the new term, which
will begin September 4.
October 17-18: Luzerne
County Teachers’ Meeting.
November 11: Armistice Day.
November 28-29: Thanks-
giving vacation.
December 20-January 5:
Christmas vacation.
April 11-14: Easter vacation.
May 30: Memorial Day.
June 6: School ends.
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Lehman Directors
Name Teachers
Miss Bogart Of Dallas
Is Among Bppointees
Three new teachers will be on
the faculty of Lehman schools when
classes are resumed on Wednesday,
September 4, and Miss Delilah Kist-
ler, a former Lehman teacher, who
took a leave of absence last year to
attend the Yale school of Nursing,
will return to her position.
The new teachers are Miss Edythe
Dickover of Kingston, a graduate of
Syracuse and who will teach English
and speech, Henry Counsman of
Altoona, a graduate of Millersville
State Teachers’ College, who will
teach industrial arts, and Miss Jean
Bogart of Dallas, a graduate of
Misericordia and Columbia Univer-
[Min Lee Faylor. Joseph Clouser,
{who was seriously injured in an
automobile accident as the term was
‘ending, has recovered and will be
on the faculty.
Mr. Counsman will coach football.
He played varsity football at Mill-
ersville for four years and was
captain of his team in his Junior
year.
H. Austin Snyder, supervising
principal, has asked all members of
tember 3.
Garage Man Is Fined
For Selling Stickers
Ralph Redmond of Orange, a
former garage operator, was fined
$75 and costs on Tuesday on
charges of selling automobile in-
spection stickers and of failing to
report the issuance of the stickers
to the State Department of Rev-
enue.
State Motor Police say Redmond
received 50 stickers. He told police
he burned all but three and had no
record of these three. Two were
traced and found on vehicles that
were unsafe. *
the faculty to nieet with him at the }
high school at 1:30 p. m. on Sep-)
3,000 Hear Swing's Pied Piper No. 1:
He'll Probably Make $500,000 In 1940
Glenn Miller, Country Boy Himself, Comes Back
To Small Towns One-nighting Te Play For Cash
Glenn Miller, who once milked cows for $2 a week on an
Iowa farm, breezed into Dallas Monday night and left early
Tuesday morning with another chunk of cash to be added to
the $500,000 or so his band will earn this year.
Like Bonnie Baker and Orrin Tucker, who flustered Dallas
last week, Miller is in the jitterbug business. The difference is
that Miller is now the No. 1
Pied Piper for America’s rug-
cutters. Bonnie and Orrin are
good. Miller’s tops.
That distinction is what keeps a
steady flow of dollars rolling in to
Miller's treasury from phonograph
records, radio and personal appear-
ances. He gets about $5,000 for his
three weekly, 15-minute CBS shows.
Phonograph records account for an-
other $40,000 or $50,000 a year.
Since April, when Miller left the
Hotel Pennsylvania ($3,000:a week,
and he reopens in October) the
band has been playing one night
stands. It’s a gruelling part of or-
chestra life, but it brings in the big
dough, and Miller will play in any
tank town that can meet his guar-
antee.
Usually, the band asks a guaran-
tee and percentage. The ordinary
guarantee is $1,500; the usual per-
centage is 60 per cent. That means
that Miller seldom one-nights for
less than $3,000. He probably didn’t
make that much here, though.
Small Town Boy Himself
If Miller's income totes up to
$500,000, as is estimated now, he’ll
pay about $350,000 of that in mu-
| sicians’ salaries, transportation, ar-
rangements and general overhead.
He'll then have about $150,000 left
for himself and the government.
Miller wasn’t snooty about the
size of Dallas, because he comes
from Clarinda, Iowa, a farm town,
and most of his schooling, musical
and otherwise, came in another
one-night town, Fort Meyer, Col.,
where he went to high school.
| Most of the crowd of 5,000 which
|turned out to hear Miller wanted
swing, but the band leader himself
lis equally proud of' his sweet ar-
| rangements. As a matter of fact, it’s
| his sweet music that has made the
heaviest mark on the band business.
| A number of orchestras copy his dis-
| tinctive singing reed style, which he
lgets by scoring the clarinet and
tenor saxaphone to carry the mel-
|ody, with the clarinet “on. top.”
Aside from directing, signing au-
tographs and posing with a cigar-
|ette in his mouth, a reminder that
| he’s sponsored by Chesterfields, Mil-
{ler does a little composing on the
| side.
| He wrote his. theme, “Moonlight
Serenade,” and other jam operas
ike ‘Doin’ the Jive” and “Annie’s
Aunt Fanny.” When Miller played
for Lucky Strike he wrote a chant
called “Sold American.” When he
went with Chesterfield he quickly
rewrote the lyrics. Now they read
“Change to Chesterfields.”
h
i years ago when he fired a 22 calibre
6.
No. 34
His Back Broken,
69-Year-Old Man
Commits Suicide
Despondent Cripple Had
Tried To End Life Once
Before; Used Shotgun
His back broken in a mine acci-
dent; 14 years ago, John Hoover
first tried to commit suicide four
bullet into his mouth. He recovered.
On Tuesday afternoon he tried
again with a 12 guage shotgun. This
time despondent John Hoover suc-
ceeded in ending his pain.
His wife and his sister, Mrs.
Agnes Spencer of Shavertown, were
picking berries beside the home on
Bear Hollow, Road, near Harvey's
Lake, when Mr. Hoover, who was
69, told them he was going upstairs
to clean his gun.
“Why don’t you clean it down
here,’ John ?”’ his wife asked him.
“I'm afraid someone will see me,”
he explained. He knew that Chief
of Police Ira C. Stevenson had for-
bidden him to have a gun ever
since Hoover tried to take his life
four years ago.
A little later Mrs. Hoover and
Mrs. Spencer heard the shot. Mrs.
Hoover went up to the bedroom, the
only bedroom in the little house,
and found him. He had sat in a
chair, leaned the muzzle of the shot-
gun against the right side of his
head and blown it away with a
charge of No. 4 shot. He had push-
ed the trigger with a ramrod. Then
they called the police.
Crippled By Accident
A member of an old and respect-
ed family, Mr. Hoover had suffered
considerably since a mine accident
crippled him 14 years ago. He was
unable to move without a cane or
crutch and the compensation he re-
ceived did little to solve the fin-
ancial problems which worried him.
After he tried to kill himself four
years ago Chief Stevenson took a
rifle, a shotgut and a revolver from
the home. The Chief held them until
Mr. Hoover promised never to try
to commit suicide and returned
them but later, becoming suspicious,
Chief Stevenson deprived Hoover of
his guns.
Some time ago Stevenson return-
ed the guns to Hoover's brother,
George, who had bought them from
John. Somehow John acquired one
of them, because it was his own
gun they . found beside his body
Tuesday, Chief Stevenson reported.
Chief Stevenson and Corporal
Charles Connelly of the State Motor
Police turned the body over to De-
puty Coroner R. L. Brickel of Dallas.
Surviving Mr. Hoover, besides his
wife and Mrs. Spencer are six Bro-
thers, Daniel and Hal of Lehman
Road; Jesse of Lehman, George and
Frank of Alderson, and James of
Ruggles Hollow, and these sisters;
Mrs. Julia Zacharias, Alderson;
Mrs. Nancy Searfoss, Alderson, and
Mrs. Major, Lehman.
Mechanized Troops
Return From Maneuvers
Highways in the vicinity of Tunk-
hannock, Noxen and Pikes Creek
are being used again by mechan-
ized military forces as army units
return from their maneuvers in
New York.
The 109th F. A, will pass through
Tunkhannock about noon Saturday,
enroute to Tobyhanna for a week’s
artillery practice. Other units bound
for Southern and Central Pennsyl-
vania will follow the same route
they took in going to the mass ma-
neuvers three weeks ago.
Senecas To Adopt James
As Their Blood Brother
Governor Arthur H. James will
become a “blood brother” of old
Chief Cornplanter when the Seneca
Indian Council adopts him tomorrow
at their annual ritual near Warren.
Forty Seneca dancers will perform
while the ceremony is carried on.
The opportunity to win books of
tickets to the World’s Fair and its
amusements will end ‘next Tuesday
night when The Post will close the
last of its three weekly contests to
find a new name for “The Back
Mountain Region”.
After that, The Post will publish
all the names suggested and ask its
readers to vote to select the label
they like best. To enter the contest,
it is necessary only to write your
LAST WORLD'S FAIR TICKETS
WILL BE AWARDED NEXT WEEK
on a piece of paper and submit it to
The Post, accompanied by a receipt
or a sales slip from some Post ad-
vertiser.
This week’s winners and the
names they suggested are: Norman
Stair, Dallas Township, “Blue Ridge
Region”, Ida P. Lewis, Dallas, ‘“Dal-
King Suburbs”; Charlotte B, Martin,
Trucksville, “Dallmont”; J. A. Mar-
tin, Trucksville, “Highland Manors”;
Mrs. Vernon E. Rood, Alderson,
suggestion and your own name |‘“Dallas Manor”.
kie as President of the United States.
which will train men and women in
national defense measures.
Dallas Borough.
er highway between Dallas and Har-
vey’s Lake before 1942.
THE POST WANTS:
The election of Wendell L. Will-
Emphasis locally on activities
The installation of fire plugs in
The construction of a new, short-
Centralization of police protec-
in the Dallas area.
More sidewalks.
Republicans Open
Willkie Campaign
At District Rally
Clark Mobilizes Forces
In Preparation For
Intensive GOP Drive
If Wendell L. Willkie’s acceptance
speech last Saturday at Elwood,
Ind., marked the opening of the
national Republican campaign, then
last night's gathering of Sixth Dis-
trict GOP committeemen at Farm-
ers’ Inn launched this section’s Fall
election.
It is always as safe to say that
the Republicans will carry the Dal-
las area as it is to predict that
Toby’s Creek will continue to flow
downhill, but the GOP which now
has about 9,300 more voters than
the Democrats in this district, ap-
parently intends to take no chances.
The campaign will be as inten-
sive and earnest as if the Republi-
cans weren't assured’ of a thumping
majority here as a matter of tra-
dition.
There's a significant reason for
the concentrated effort. Elsewhere
in Luzerne County the Republican
party will expect stiff blows from
the hard-hitting New Dealers and
will look to this rockribbed Repub-
lican stronghold for votes to stem
the Rooseveltian tide.
Luzerne County has been fav-
oring Democratic candidates for
President for 12 years. Alfred E.
Smith carried the County against
Hoover in 1928. President Roose-
velt carried the county in 1932 and
1936. The Democratic Party is con-
fident he can do it again.
As the biggest Republican district
in the county, the Sixth, which in-
cludes Dallas and neighboring com-
munities, will have a difficult as-
signment in attempting to lead Lu-
zerne County back into the Republi-
can ranks in this Presidential elec-
tion. I
Clark Rallies Followers
Peter D. Clark of Dallas, district
chairman and who is largely re-
sponsible for the heavy gains made
by the GOP here in the last two
years, presided at last night's meet-
ing and introduced Don Wilkinson,
GOP candidate for State Represent-
ative; J. Henry Pool, candidate for
U. S. Congress, and Charles Mec-
Carthy, candidate for State Senator.
Mr. Wilkinson will outdistance his
Democratic opponent, ,Arthur Bil-
lings of Duryea, in all local com-
munities. Mr. Billings will poll his
strongest votes in the upper end of
the district.
Mr. McCarthy, who is opposed by
Dr. Leo C. Mundy, will not campaign
in the Dallas area, since he is aspir-
ing from the 21st Senatorial Dis-
trict, which juts into the upper end
of the Sixth Legislative District.
Dallas and its vicinity are repre-
sented at Harrisburg by State Sena-
tor Robert M. Miller of Kingston,
whose “term does not expire this
year.
The contest between Mr. Pool, the
former Republican county chairman,
and present Congressman J. Harold
Flannery will be the most spirited
of any of the local contests. Con-
gressman Flannery has always led
his own ticket throughout this sec-
tion and there is strong indication
that his big following here will in-
duce many Republicans to split
their vote, despite the pleas of Re-
publican leaders for ‘straight vot-
ing.”
The only State contest being
watched closely by local voters is °
that in which G. Harold Wagner,
former Dallas burgess and a candi-
date for State Treasurer, is a prin-
cipal. 2
Another important event on the
Republican calendar will take place
here tomorrow (Saturday) when
the Young Republican Women of
Luzerne County have their outing
at Irem Country Club. A political
rally at 4 p. m. will be one of the
features of the day’s program.
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ROAD CREW CUTS PIPE
LINE AND LEAVES PART
OF DALLAS WATERLESS
The four-inch pipe line which
carries water from the main
part of Dallas to the Brooklyn
section was severed on Tues-
day by workmen who are clear-
ing the way for the new high-
way and residents of that part
of town were without water
all day.
The workmen also tore out
the bridge usually used by
Laing Fire Company in an-
swering calls in the central part
of town, making it necessary
for fire equipment to make a
roundabout detour in respond-
ing to alarms.
;