‘Ah, Spring! Sweet Spring!
‘ Come in, have your fling.
‘Commingle our sneezes
~ Pray now, don’t be fickle, old thing,
‘Here's how! Tip a julep
"SECOND _
THOUGHTS
| By javie aiche
Sweet Spring
Hello, there; you're welcome, by jing.
Come in with your budding,
Your claying and mudding
And even your flooding;
The birds and the bees are a-wing
And Nature is trying to sing;
Aloft in the trees is
A fragrance, the breezes
With air that has zing.
Too long has old Winter been King,
We're marking his rule up.
To crocus and tulip
And brooks murmuring.
Ding-dong sound the bells, and
dong-ding,
For church and for school.
them ring!
The bells we have ears for
Are blue-bells. Three cheers for
The gay little dears! For,
It’s Spring!
The Candidate
He isn’t candid, he’s profuse
In praise of self, plus much abuse
For all who would oppose his aim
Upon the target labeled Fame.
When he’s elected, this his sin:
He has no date; he’s never in.
While The Iron Is Hot
In union there is strength, they say,
Yet unions seem to disunite
The forces which we would array
To meet the menace known as
Might.
Be strong in labor. Labor’s strong
And ready yet to strike, we
know;
But some one has directions wrong
When we are struck and not the
foe.
The Word For It Is Greek
Benito Mussolini pouted up a martial
mess, :
He talked a mighty conquest to
the world,
He licked the bow-and-arrow boys
of Egypt's wilderness
And then at all his stout defiance
hurled.
Benito Mussolini thought it time to
make a splurge,
He thought the time propitious,
fame to seek,
And now instead of paeans he is
harking to a dirge,
He doesn’t understand it, for it’s
Greek.
They pounded him
And hounded him,
Then rounded out his track,
They trounced him so
And bounced him so
He beat his shadow back.
Let
®
Benito’s Axis partner followed up
his pal’s mistake
Was doubled back by Jugoslavs
and Turks
For Hitler it was Jerko when he
thought ’twas really Jake
So now he too has had to shoot
the works.
The Greeks have panned his Panzero
and his Blitzers have the
blues
His Luftwaffe was a bluff and all
too weak,
He's found a foe whose lexicon has
no word meaning lose
But many meaning courage; all
are Greek.
‘Who hears a foe?
Who fears a foe
Of this the best of lands?
All such we'd rout
By calling out
Our lunch and candy stands.
~ THE OLD
SCRAPBOOK
By "Bob" Sutton
On this, another Good Friday, let
our minds be centered upon the
Cross of the Savior of the world.
Let us think briefly of
THE TERROR OF THE CROSS
By Rev. M. C. Davies, B. A.
Who is this, whom men are re-
viling, mocking and scoffing? Is he
some criminal who deserves all this
shame? From those to whom we
speak, we learn that he claimed to
be the Son of God, and as they go
about their work or pleasure there
is no terror here for them. But as
‘we approach the foot of the Cross
we find there three lonely and sor-
rowful figures, one man and two
women. Perhaps they have caught
some taste of the terror of this aw-
ful ordeal.
learn that one of them is the Moth-
er of this, her Son.
is His most beloved disciple, John.
Ah, yes, they have learned and are
learning something of the terror of
the Cross, for upon it, with out-
streched arms, is the One they love
the most in all the world.
We gaze into the face of the vic-
tim. Strange to say, there is no
terror there: only a deep concern
for those about Him, not for Him-
self. Even His enemies are His con-
cern—those who love Him are in
His thoughts, and those who love
Him not are in His mind.
PRAISE FOR THE CROSS
By Nellie Mayes
THE LOW DOWN FROM |
| used to drive by so fast that I nev-
We speak to them and
The other is
Magdalene, one of His closest and
most devout followers, and the third
"HICKORY GROVE
You will half-way ques-
tion a person's I. Q. if he
says a good word for the
tax collector. But if the
tax collector gets us woke
up, he is doing us a good
turn. And brother, is he
getting busy? And the
more pockets he fumbles
around the more enemies
he makes, the better it
will be for everybody—in
the long run.
We been figuring it is
0. K. for the Govt. to dive
into this business or that
business, just so it wasn’t
costing us anything. If
Sambo wanted to be a
Socialist, let him be one.
But mow the Old Boy tis
limping home like a prod-
igal, and everybody is
gonna get micked — and
plenty. And brothers and
sisters, it will be painful.
Digging up taxes, and
doing without a mew suit
or hat or something, so
that ome million persons
working for the Govt. can
have a mice job, and may-
be a new car every year—
including free gas—is not
going to give us a sweet
disposition.
You can get a tooth out
with mowocain, but for
taxes, there is mo quick
relief.
Yours with the low down.
JO SERRA
FOOTNOTES
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Bitch Te All on Balken Front
By CHARLE
S HODGES
Transradio War Expert >
The Palm”Sunday offensive of the
Nazis in the Balkans opens the nine-
ty critical days of 1941. The Ger-
man High Command between now
and mid-summer must fight on two
fronts for the decisive results upon
which Hitler's future in Europe de-
pends. The assault on Yugoslavia is
the Nazi confession that the nerve
war has failed again to bring about
bloodless victory for the Axis. More
important is the fact that the British
have chosen to give ground—even if
it is desert sand—in Libya rather
than weaken the war effort in the
Balkans. The leadership of General
Wavell appears to figure the North
African Nazi-Italian counter-attack
as lacking great strength for a real
drive against the Suez Canal: The
desert hot season, notwithstanding:
reports of special training for Nazi
shock troops in desert fighting, is
believed to burn up all possibility of
sufficiently large forces operating
from the west.
The Nazi infiliration in Libya,
though larger than expected, is not
regarded by the British general
staff as large enough in numbers,
mechanized equipment and gasoline
to challenge the main covering force
left to defend Cyrenaica, while Gen-
eral Wavell drives the Italian rem-
nants out of East Africa.
Supply Headaches
«By EMMONS BLAKE
-
Can you think of some product
you have grown up with, and maybe
associate with some milestone in
your life? My father can. His
product is Shredded Wheat. Many
years ago there was a line on the
Shredded Wheat package that read,
“Tell us what you eat and we will
tell you what you are.” My father
sent in a detailed account of what
he ate, and received in return a let-
ter making him “Official Window
Sticker Sticker.” With it he re-
ceived a package of decalcomanias
and a squeegee, and instructions to
place stickers on every grocery store
in his town of Parsons, Kansas.
Forty-four years later his family is
still eating Shredded Wheat.
I too have a product that I can
remember from way back and it al-
so happens to be a cereal.
There is an old road that leads
from my town around a large bay,
and to the city nearby. About ten
years ago a new road was built with
a bridge across the bay and the nar-
row old road is seldom used. The
gas stations are closed and all the
advertising signs along the side
have either fallen or faded past rec-
ognition. One of these signs adver-
tised Albers Flapjack Flour. It was
wooden and hand painted, a large
reproduction of their famous trade-
mark, a westerner complete with
six-shooter and flannel shirt kneel-
ing beside his camp-fire making flap-
jacks. The sign fascinated me be-
cause of the box the westerner held.
It was an Albers box on which was
a picture of a westerner holding an
Albers box with a picture of a west-
erner holding, etc., etc. My father
er had time to scramble up the back
seat of the car and see just how
many men were in the picture.
It was the period of my life when
my parents, older brothers, relatives,
and interested spectators were try-
ing to teach me to read. Every time
we passed that sign they would try
to focus my mind on the spelling of
one word, Albers. But it was fu-
tile, my mind was busy with more
important things. I would try to
please them by reading everything
on the next sign, but received little
praise; it was a giant coffee pot and
bore the letters M J B.
Recently I stopped and looked for
the old sign. I found it fallen and
almost barren of paint. Weeds were
growing through the cracks in the
shrunken wood. I scraped some
mud off with my shoe. Dimly I
could make out one word. Albers.
He laid down His glory to be
Our substitute on Calvary!
How can we dwell upon the scene ?
Lord, may Thy passion to us mean
That, melted, we will count all loss,
And glory only in the Cross!
O costly love! the price He paid,
Sin and the curse were on Him
laid;
And as a criminal there He died;
God’s holy Son was crucified!
Oh, make the vision clearer still!
We would see Jesus on the hill
Of Calvary, and Him adore
Who ever lives to die no more!
We praise Thee for Redemption’s
plan,
Wrought out by Thee for ruined
man,
And the blessed One-in-Three
Our praise shall rise continually!
But let us go on to Sunday, and
BOOK REVIEW
WHAT THE CITIZEN SHOULD
KNOW ABOUT THE ARMY
By Harvey S. Ford
Publishers—W. W. Norton and Com-
pany, Inc.
Date of Publication—March 8, 1941
Reviewed by Lionel Ross
What the Citizen Should Know |
About the Army by Harvey S. Ford |
is not a book written for experts. It
is written for the common layman
who know nothing about triangular
divisions or flank attacks. It is
written plainly, and so that it can
be understood by every reader. Mr.
Ford leaves out as much technical
material as he possibly can. He tells
what the Army contains in the way
of men and material, how the Army
and its branches operate, and what
they can be expected to do in the
future. The book is not an official
publication. Mr. Ford says he alone
is responsible for it. It does not
represent the opinions of the War
Department of the United States or
of any Army member.
The book is divided into eight
sections: The Organization of the
Army, the Enlisted Man, the Officer,
the Arms, The Services, The Citizen
and the Army, the General Staff,
and The Conduct of War.
less a general review of our Army
and its organization. Mr. Ford ends
and the system by which they are
combined are international rather
that national in character, and by
transposing a word here and a
phrase there one might use the
above exposition as a fairly work-
able guide for any major army in
the world.”
In the section on enlisted men he
discusses discipline, military duties,
| fatigue, which is waiting on table,
dishwashing, or any other work a
The opening section is more or!
by saying, “The units of an Army |
“More than a newspaper,
a community institution”
THE DALLAS POST
ESTABLISHED 1889
A non-partisan liberal
progressive mewspaper pub-
lished every Friday morning
at its plant on Lehman Ave-
nue, 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.
Subscriptions, $2 a year, payable
in advance.
Editor and Publisher
HOWARD W. RISLEY
Associate Editor
MYRA ZEISER RISLEY
Contributing Editors
FRED M. KIEFER
JOHN V. HEFFERNAN
Mechanical Superintendent
HAROLD J. PRICE
®
units larger than an army. The
only American officer ever to hold
this title was General Douglass Mac-
Arthur, who was made a Field Gen-
eral by the Philippine Common-
wealth
The R. O. T. C. and military
schools such as Culver or Valley
Forge are mentioned as some of the
institutions used for the develop-
ment of good officers.
Among the various arms and
branches of the Army are the Air
! Corps, the Armored Force, the Cav-
! alry, the Coast Artillery, the Engin-
eers, the Signal Corps, the Infantry,
and the Field Artillery.
When Mr. Ford writes about the
soldier must do in addition to his
military work, recreation, and the
advantages, aside from the oppor-
tunity for earning a commission that
the enlisted man has. If he saves
only five dollars a month and depos-
its it with the Army Banking Sys-
tem, he may retire at the end of
thirty years service with ten thou-
sand dollars in cash, and a pension
of one hundred dollars a month. At
the time of his retirement he should
probably still be under fifty, or very
close to it. However, ten thousand
dollars and a pension of one hundred
dollars a month doesn’t seem to be
too much for a man of fifty with a
wife and two or three growing
children.
The life of a soldier is fully ex-
plained in the section, and the des-
cription of a day in the Army is
very interesting although getting up
at six o'clock on a cold winter
morning isn’t exactly every person’s
idea of Utopia. There are many
courses open to men who are qual-
ified. Among the many schools are
the Cavalry School, Chemical War-
fare, Coast Artillery, Engineering,
Dental, Finance, and the Signal
Corps School. These schools teach
high finance.
In the United States, officers’ com-
missions are granted in the Regular
Army, the National Guard, and the
organized . Reserves, by the Presi-
dent. The officers’ complicated
work, duties, and training are dis-
cussed minutely by Mr. Ford. In
one place he mentions that almost
every country in the world, except
the Glorious Resurrection! Christ
How sad and lonely was the road
That Jesus, our Redeemer, trod!
Jesus could not be held of Death.
the United States, has the rank of
Field Marshall for commanders of
services such as the Finance De-
partment or the Judge Advocate’s
work of the American Military In-
stitute. He knows the Army thor-
oughly, and in addition to all his
facts, including historical data, the
book has fine drawings on every
topic discussed.
This is a very excellent and time-
ly book. It is full of definite precise
informatioin that the people are
looking for. It should have the
large sale this reviewer hopes for it.
ee QA pe
WHAT THE CITIZEN SHOULD
KNOW ABOUT THE NAVY
By Hanson W. Baldwin
W. W. Norton & Co., Inc., Publishers
March 8, 1941—$2.00
Reviewed by Bernard Smith
Hanson W. Baldwin is on com-
pletely familiar ground when he
writes of the Navy. He is a grad-
uate of Annapolis, and is now the
naval specialist of the New York
Times.
As a result, What The Citizen
Should Know About The Navy is an
informative, up-to-date, and com-
plete book about the first line of
defense of the United States. If
anything, it is too complete, and at
times encyclopedic. Pages of tables,
diagrams, and statistics lend to a
textbookish atmosphere that is bare-
ly dissipated by a brisk, running
narrative. Every conceivable phase
of naval operations seems to be cov-
ered.
The book opens with a general
discussion of the importance of sea
power.
It goes on to tell the life of the
enlisted man in the navy; his train-
ing, pay, chances of advancement,
and life aboard ship.
latter, it seems inconceivable that
anybody would willingly join the
navy, knowing the daily schedule he
must follow. As presented by Mr.
Baldwin, it goes something like this:
up at four A. M.; breakfast; shine
the brightwork; knock off the bright-
Department, the book becomes a
| little dull, although the reader be-'!
comes interested again as soon as |
‘the author starts a discussion of the |
Chemical Warfare Department. The!
agents,odors, and effects of many of |
the main gases are identified for the
reader.
The section on the Conduct of
War should be very interesting to
the layman. Everything technical
has been left out, and the whole
section comes down to one impor-
tant idea. Success in our war de-
pends mainly upon good leadership.
Without skillful generals the army
is on the way to defeat no matter
how fine its equipment is or how
well-trained the troops are.
Mr. Ford tries to show people in
this Country how they can best
serve their Army by learning more
about it, and not just taking it for
granted as they have been doing for
the last twenty years. He needn't
worry himself too much on that
point. The American people are
taking their Army very seriously
at this particular time. They realize
that it is a tremendously important
factor in their lives.
This book is one of a group of
three, designed to acquaint the citi-
zen with the Army, the Navy, and
the Coast Guard. They are all by
important writers who are thorough-
ly versed in their particular fields.
Mr. Ford is a reserve officer on duty
in the office of the Chief of Field
Artillery. He is assistant editor of
the United States Field Artillery
work; inspection and setting up ex-
ercises; general drill; dinner; sweep
decks; drill; sweep down; knock off
brightworks; clear decks; supper;
sweep decks; scrub clothes; drill; and
so to bed. The impression is given
that the decks of a battleship must
soon be worn by such continual
sweeping.
The author goes on to tell of the
naval officer; his pay, training,
duties, and chances for advance-
ment. An interesting matter for
discussion is brought up here, al-
though Mr. Baldwin neither con-
demns nor condones, but follows his
policy of mere statement of fact.
There is decided social discrimina-
tion between the Naval Academy
graduate and the non-graduate. Two
officers may be of the same rank,
but if one is a graduate of Annapolis
and the other is not, a definite gulf
remains between them. The first
may rise to a high commission, while
the second has little chance of do-
ing so.
Definite cliques of Naval Academy
graduates are formed which are im-
pregnable to non-graduates. This
system is obviously open to adverse
criticism, and has recently been at-
tacked in magazine articles.
The various types of fighting
ships are next discussed so that the
reader will know the difference be-
tween a battleship, a battle cruiser,
a destroyer, and a cruiser. ‘The
fleet as a whole is taken up along
with the elements of tactics and
strategy. Fortunately the author
As to the
The greater naval grip of the
British on the Mediterranean lines
of communication, vital to large-
scale Axis operations outside Eu-
rope, assures a major Nazi head-
ache over supplying a Libyan cam-
paign.
Nazi air power, though able to
ferry across from Sicily, lacks air-
dromes, ground crews and fuel for
any air blitz to be launched simul-
taneously with the Balkan offensive;
the Nazi need now for air superior- |
ity in three theatres of Sverations—1
The British Isles, the Balkans, North |
Africa—does not seem attainable.
General Wavell has added up|
these probabilities, in order to fig-;
ure out his own chances. The re-
sult seems to be that the British
expect to wear down the Nazi-in-
spired counter-offensive from Trip-
oli as a local operation with close
cooperation between the Army and
Navy. Wiping out the other threat
to Suez, continuance of Italian re-
sistance to the British campaign of
liquidation in Ethiopia, is being |
rushed to get ahead of the rains. |
Very little now stands between the
British and complete surrender of
Italian forces on the Red Sea flank.
British Are Stronger
This destruction of the East Afri-
can empire of the Italians is essen-
tial for the solution of Wavell’s ma-
jor strategic problem: blocking Hit-
ler in the Near East.
Once the
Mussolini is destroyed, the new Bal-
kan pressure from Hitler can be met
with assured supply lines. It is true
that the British have “swept” the
Mediterranean to bring through con-
voy after convoy for both the Army
of the Nile and for the Greek cam-
paign. The greater security of
Ethiopian threat of |
THE SAFETY
VALVE
This column is open to
everyone. Letters should be
plainly written and signed.
Editor, The Post:
The Wyoming Valley Council, Girl
Scouts, wish to take this opportun-
ity to express our thanks for the
fine articles which have appeared in
recent issues of the Dallas Post. We
are always very appreciative of the
space that you have so willingly
given us.
. May we look forward to your con-
tinued support and co-operation?
Sincerely yours,
Dorothy Page Conrad,
Director.
—_———
: April 7, 1941.
Editor the Post: —
I have read your fine editorial ap-
pearing in The Dallas Post under
date of March 28th and I deeply
appreciate your complimentary ex-
pressions in this matter.
Sincerely yours,
Arthur H. James.
Governor's Office
Harrisburg, Pa.
SONG
The year’s at the spring
And day’s at the morn;
Morning’s at seven;
The hillside’s dew-pearl’d;
The lark’s on the wing;
The snail’s on the thorn:
God’s in His heaven—
All’s right with the world!
Robert Browning.
“LOVLIEST OF TREES”
Lovliest of trees, the cherry now
Is hung with bloom along the bough,
And stands about the woodland ride,
Wearing white for Eastertide.
Now of my threescore years and ten,
Twenty will not come again,
And take from seventy springs a
score,
It only leaves me fifty more.
And since to look at things in bloom
Fifty springs are little room,
About the woodlands I will go
To see the cherry hung with snow.
A. E. Housman.
ly back upon the culminating de-
struction of Britain herself to finish
the war by September.
Such a campaign envisages the
disruption of Yugoslavia by the de-
struction of Serb military resistance;
the folding up of the Greek front
on the Albanian and Thracian
wings; the ejection of the British
from Mainland Greece, with the con-
sequential loss of sea and air power
between the Adriatic and the
Aegean. This concept of German
strategy disregards the Soviet Un-
ion, probably correctly as even a
likely military factor so long as the
longer lines of supply converging
in the Indian’ Ocean for the final
dash to the Mediterranean via the
Red Seat is paramount.
Unless Hitler believes that he can
smash through the Balkans, crack
Turkey astride the Straits and seize
the whole Near East, the Nazi strat-
egy aims only at restoring security
Britain is finished off in the west.
This means that the Reichswehr
leadership intends to overrun the
Balkans with the typical britzkrieg
attack of depth and then turn swift-
reader is not lost in a maze of
naval techniques.
The importance of naval bases,
the relationship of air power to sea
power, and the problems of equip-
ment and communications are all
taken up in this book.
What The Citizen Should Know
About The Navy is a book that
should interest any man or boy who
has ever thought about signing up
for a term in the navy. As a hand-
book of naval information it is ex-
cellent. And once the reader has
finished this book, he can indeed
think himself an expert on matters
in the rear of German arms while |
Nazi can localize their operations
| to the west.
Eyes On Arab Oil
If the Nazis do not so intend to
handle what for the moment looks
like a punitive expedition to re-
store “order” in the Balkans, then
the ‘war will spread from the Near
East to the Middle East. The
spread will be very rapid unless the
Germans are stopped before they
get a bridgehead into Asia Minor.
We must remember that the Nazis
have intrigued throughout the Arab
world to burst open new trouble for
the British between the Levant
Coast and the Persian Gulf. This is
the longer-range objective of oil,
and, beyond that, even India.
These explosives of Asiatic poli-
tics are well known however. More
than a ninety-day time scale is in-
volved; for that reason, I am not
letting my eyes be taken far away
from the European Continent. For
Hitler, the British in the British
Isles remain the key to final vic-
tory.
A spreading war means a longer
war. A longer war means the ex-
haustion of the Axis in Europe—
greater pressure against the dicta-
tors from the outside world steadily
naval.
lining up against Hitlerism.
ro
Jesus Christ is risen today, 4
eluia! A
Our triumphant holy day,
Alleluia! :
Who did once upon the cross,
Alleluia!
Suffer to redeem our loss,
Alleluia!
The melody is now one of the
“JESUS CHRISG IS RISEN GODIY;
- ~ » LATIN 14% CENTURY . . .
—_—o
»
This favorite Easter hymn. with
neity of joy, is no doubt a translation of a 14th Century Latin hymn.
»
/
its swelling Alleluias and sponta-
most famous of all Easter carols.
Journal, and has been active in the
writes clearly enough so that the
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HOWARD H.WOOLBERT
FUNERAL DIRECTOR
DALLAS 400 ® SHAVERTOWN; PA,