Editorially Speaking:
Talk—And Do Nothing
Mark Twain said:
weather, but nobody does anything about it!
Mark never heard about street signs, confining his travels
to journeys by boat on the Mississippi, but out here in
Dallas,
“Every body talks about the
Maybe
Shavertown and Trucksville where everybody
travels by automobile all of us talk about street signs
and house numerals and do nothing about it.
We take it that most people recognize the convenience
of attractively designed and properly placed street signs.
Most of us at some time during our daily chores are an-
noyed by their absence and forced to inconvenience our-
selves as well as others because we haven’t the gumption
to get them. We waste more time drawing maps and at-
tempting to describe the location of a neighbor’s house
than Mark Twain’s friends did in talking about the
weather for a week straight . .
. and yet we do nothing
about it—just sit and crab privately to ourselves that this
is an inconvenient place to live and not half as progressive
as Swoyersville, Pringle, Luzerne, and Maltby as far as
street signs are concerned.
We can talk a blue streak when we've got a prospec-
tive purchaser for a new house or a possible renter under
our spell.
We tingle with emotion on such occasions and
pride ourselves on the wonderful place in which we live—
but that, like Mark Twain’s
be just a lot of talk.
weather gossip, turns out to
Outstanding Public Service
How many people know
that the doctors who serve
the local draft boards give their services absolutely free?
This takes much of the time of doctors in every part of
the country.
It has been granted generously, with no
thought of reward. The young men who are being taken
for the nation’s defense have the satisfaction of knowing
they are receiving the best medical examinations of any
army recruits anywhere in the world.
How striking is the contrast between the attitude of
the doctors in giving this invaluable service, and the atti-
tude of ‘those crafts and trades that have endangered the
defense program, through strikes and jurisdictional dis-
putes.
FROM.
PILLAR TO POST
Before this country gets too wrapped up in making tanks and four-
engined bombers, something ought to be done about women’s pocket-
books.
We had occasion the day it rained to hunt for the car keys.
Before we found them, what had started as just another drab day,
turned out to be the most interesting we've had since Pete, the crow,
fluttered up to the ridge of Rood’s
roof with our only pair of shears.
No man with an inquiring mind
should spare any effort short of
purse-snatching to get a leisurely
look at the inside of his wife's
pocketbook. To make it more ex-
citing, he ought to go through the
ordeal of searching for something
like the car keys or the change
from the last $10 bill he gave the
missus.
If there is anything wrong with
our monetary system, he'll find it
amid the confusion of lip stick, face
powder, butcher bills, license cards,
lead pencils, hair pins, Life Savers,
bank book, nail polish, handker-
chiefs, aspirin, needles, thread, four
buttons, two combs, and a cracked
mirror—but he won't find the
change to the $10 bill—or the car
keys. If theres’ a niche in America
for a good efficiency engineer, it’s in
the woman’s pocketbook field. The
designers have fooled around long
enough and got nowhere—just the
way we did when we hunted for the
car keys and found them in our old
sweater in an upstairs closet . . .
but the change from our $10 bill
must still be tied up in the interior
furnishings.
One of our scouts all out of breath
tells us Baltimore is a boom town,
its streets paved with gold and
hardly a parking place. We've never
been south of Harrisburg but we've
had a hankering to see the town of
HH. L. Menckin, Johns Hopkins, The
Baltimore Sun, and Francis Scott
Key one of these days. Most of
all we'd like to meet Christopher
Billopp who pounds out copy for
the Sun. He impressed us as doing
about as much for mankind as the
rest of them when he described the
perfect husband a few days ago in
his column.
Cris says:
one who:
Is so handsome that he makes
every female heart flutter, but who
never looks at another woman.
Makes mints of money, but never
goes away on business trips, stays
late at the office, brings business
friends home to dinner, brings work
home with him at night, or drags
his wife to company parties.
Is practical with his hands and,
if necessary, could make a living
as a plumber, carpenter or elec-
trician.
Dances divinely and plays a beau-
tiful game of contract, but is not
above helping with the dishes or
getting up at dawn to give the baby
its bottle.
Composes all the bread-and-but-
ter letters and letters of condolence.
Loves symphony and lectures on
the arts and can be drafted to carve
turkeys at church suppers.
Is always open to constructive
suggestions on how to. drive and
does not sulk when corrected.
Can find parking space within a
few feet of a theatre or other place
of amusement, and pushes right
ahead and gets the only remaining
seats at a crowded movie.
Does not lose hair or add an inch
to his girth as time goes on.
Can be let out alone with prun-
ing knife, sickle, or other lethal
weapons in a flower garden and not
An ideal husband is
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Local Youths
Place High In
State Contest
Township Future
Farmers Rate High in
Judging, Identification
Lawrence Smith and Robert Pat-
rick, members of the Anthracite
Chapter, Future Farmers of America,
at Dallas Township High School,
placed high among 1,000 boys par-
ticipating in annual F. F. A. judging
contests at State College this week.
Lawrence Smith came in second
among 160 boys entered in the po-
tato judging contest. Four classes
were judged on their merits as seed
potatoes.
Robert Patrick placed sixth among
134 boys in the difficult feed identi-
fication contest. The boys were given
100 feeds to identify. Robert iden-
tified 88. Last year a score of 88
won the contest but this year it
took a score of 93 to win.
Scores throughout all of the con-
tests were exceedingly high and
close as compared to other years.
This was an indication of the in-
creasingly keen competition the
boys have to face in judging dairy
cows, livestock, poultry, corn, and
potatoes and in identification of
feeds and trees, as well as farm
mechanics, horsemanship, public
speaking and plant insect and dis-
ease identification.
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Draft Board Receiv all
Draft Board No. 1 with head-
quarters at Wyoming, has received
a call for 28 young men to be sent
to the Wilkes-Barre Examining Cen-
ter on July 3. Men who pass the
physical examination will be induct-
ed into military service within thirty
days. The number of men called
for July induction by the local board
is about half the number called in
previous monthly quotas.
Tue Darras Post
MORE THAN A NEWSPAPER, A COMMUNITY INSTITUTION
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Vol. 51 ,
Contractors A
Start Work On
New Lake Road
Hazleton Firm Will Use
Bdleman Property As
Headquarters And Plant
Central Pennsylvania Quarry,
Stripping and Construction Company
of Hazleton has leased the Adleman
property on Lake St. for its head-
quarters, storage facilities and bulk
plant during construction of the new
Harvey's Lake highway which got
under way this week.
Carpenters were busy the early
part of the week constructing field
offices in the main warehouse, while
foremen, timekeepers and other of-
ficials moved office equipment into
the new headquarters in preparation
for the influx of workers who will
start rough grading as soon as ad-
ditional equipment arrives.
For the past week a crew of 18
men has been employed at the Har-
vey’s Lake terminus of the highway
felling trees and underbrush along
the right-of-way making ready for
graders and other heavy machinery.
Another force of men cleared brush
and trees along the creek bank on
the other side of the Lehigh Valley
Railway tracks back of the Adleman
lumber sheds. They will construct
a temporary bridge and roadway so
that trucks and other equipment
can proceed directly from the bulk
plant to the new highway without
following the old Harvey's Lake
road. Last year when Coon Con-
struction Company used the prop-
erty for its bulk plant, loaded
cement and sand trucks made their
exit by way of Lake St. but the
Central Pennsylvania Company will
have direct access to the road under
construction.
With the arrival of one carload
of equipment yesterday and others
expected shortly, the company will
put a shovel in operation at the
Harvey's Lake end of the road and
tractor scoops in operation at the
mid-point between Dallas and Har-
vey's Lake.
A number of buildings in the
right-of-way still have to be re-
moved.
R. B. Shaver has prepared a foun-
dation directly across the old high-
way at Idetown and will move the
house he has occupied for the past
25 years to the new location. Other
properties nearer the lake will also
be removed to new locations while
others will be razed.
John Brunes will be superintend-
ent in charge of construction and
will also supervise two other oper-
ations of the company.
While much depends upon the
number of good working days be-
tween now and heavy frosts, it is
not believed that paving along the
entire new highway will be com-
pleted before next spring.
Crowd Expected
Et Farmer Dance
Old-Fashioned Cake
Walk To Be Featured
An all-out response to the Farm-
er’s Dance being sponsored by Henry
M. Laing Fire Auxiliary Thursday,
June 26, in Kunkle Hall is expected.
Committee members headed by Mrs.
Stephen Sedler have already sold
a large number of tickets and things
look good for a lively evening with
everybody present. There will be a
door prize contributed by A. N.
Garinger and a good old-fashioned
cake-walk with very special award.
Music will be furnished by War-
hola’s orchestra. Assisting Mrs. Sed-
ler with preparations is Mrs. Thomas
Kepner, Mrs. Joseph Schmerer, Mrs.
Earl Monk, Mrs. R. J. W. Templin,
and Mrs. Walter Davis. Officers of
the Auxiliary are Mrs. Russell Case,
president; Mrs. Fred Hughey, secre-
tary, and Mrs. F. Budd Schooley,
treasurer.
Postoffice Clerks Will Receive |
Salary Boost With New Rating
Four members of the regular staff
of Dallas Post Office will be made
happy on July 1 when the office
starts operation under its new sec-
ond-class status, for the change in
rating beside bringing them under
Civil Service also means greatly in-
creased salaries.
Three clerks previously hired by
the postmaster, but now paid by the
Federal Government, will have their
salaries increased from around $540
a year to $1,700 a year. The post-
master will also receive an increase
in salary from $2,300 a year to
$2,400.
Those who will share in the in-
crease will be Dorothy Moore, Jose-
phine Stem, Al Montross and Post-
master Joseph Polacky.
During the past twelve months
the local office fell $300 short of ‘the
$10,000 goal necessary before the
Postoffice Department will consider
plans for a new building. Since
revenues are considered over 12
consecutive months, employees and
citizens are making every effort to
boost the income of the office so
that a new building cala be consid-
ered on the next Federal budget.
A special effort is beth made to
boost income before the first of July.
FRIDAY, JUNE 20, 1941
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FDR's Son Reports For Duty
John Roosevelt, youngest son of the President, reports to Commander
Edwin A. Eddiegorde as he starts duty at the Naval Supply School corps
neadquarters at Harvard Business School, Cambridge, Mass.
dent’s three other sons are also in the armed forces:
East as a Marine observer, Elliott in the Army Air Corps, and Franklin,
Jr., in the Navy.
The Presi-
James in the Middle
(C. P. Phonephoto)
World's 20-Year-0ld Conception
Of Windsor Needs Some Revision
Once Gay Prince Now Poised Statesman, Mature
[dealist, Deeply Devoted To His American Wife
By Howery E. Rees
(This is the. last of three articles on Nassau by Mr. Rees,
forrer Managing Editor of The Post)
Nassau, N. P., Bahamas, June 20.—Like most people, I
had an obsolute conception of His Royal Highness, the Duke
of Windsor.
While he was maturing, I was clinging fondly to a 20-year-
old picture of a gay young prince who was constantly falling
off polo ponies—and picking himself up and climbing back on.
That’s why it was such a surprise to learn, after I'd broken
through the first few weeks of gossip and legend here, that
the Duke of Windsor has developed into a brilliant adminis-
trator, a poised statesman and a grave idealist.
\ At 47, H. R. H. (which is what Nassau calls him mostly) is
slim, athletic and amazingly boyish-looking, but the playboy
College Opens
Summer School
Registration for Courses
Will Be Held June 20-21
The fifteenth summer session will
open at College Misericordia on June
23. Registration for courses may be
made Friday and Saturday, June 20
and 21. . Tuesday, June 24, the ses-
sion will be formally opened with a
High Mass.
Courses have been planned for
undergraduate students desirous of
carrying on academic work toward
baccalaureate degrees; for teachers
in service interested in completing
requirements for permanent certifi-
cation; and for teachers and others
who wish to develop professionally
and continue leisure time interests.
The Summer session offers courses
equivalent in method, character, and
credit value to those offered during
the year. The faculty consists of
members of the regular teaching
staff, supplemented by visiting pro-
fessors from other institutions.
About 30 courses will be offered
which will include work in the
physical and biological sciences, ed-
ucation, English, foreign languages,
history, political science, philosophy,
home economics, mathematics, lib-
rary science, secretarial science, vis-
ual aids and sensory techniques,
commercial art and elementary ed-
ucation. :
Special courses designed for
teachers in service appear on the
program. The instructor in Diag-
nostic and Remedial Reading will
conduct a laboratory in which the
recently installed opthalmograph
will be used. Classroom methods
of diagnosing and remedying read-
ing difficulties will be stressed and
the psychopathology of reading dis-
ability explained. Professionals in
the elementary field will have a
work shop of demonstrations every
Monday and Thursday at 2 p. m.
and a Child Guidance Clinic will be
maintained in connection with the
Child Guidance course.
Auditing will be permitted in all
classes but no credit will be given.
legends belong to a past world. Take
it from me, here’s a great man, of
whom any Empire can be proud.
And if England is proud of him,
then we in the States can be proud
of his wife, the Duchess. As Inez
Robb, who's been everywhere and
seen everything, put it: “She may
not have been born to the purple,
but she certainly knows how to
wear it!”
More Dramatic Than Fiction
The thing that makes it difficult
for any writer to do justice to the
Duke of Windsor is that his whole
life has been like something out
of a best-seller. They'll be rewrit-
ing and debating the story of King
Simpson centuries from now, when
Adolf Hitler is nothing but a funny-
looking thumbnail illustration in a
history book.
Most of us haven’t enough brains
to understand everything about
Hitler's World War, but all of us
have hearts—and they ached to-
gether, like some great, cosmic
a man spoke dramatically over the
wireless to tell us he had followed
his conscience and was going to
the woman he needed by his side,
as his wife, for life. Somehow, the
world understood.
But there were some who, in that
December of 1935, regarded the ro-
mance with skepticism. “It will
never last,” they whispered smugly.
I remember what a famous pho-
tographer said a few months ago
after he had come from Government
House where he’d been making some
color photographs of the Duke and
Duchess for a national weekly. “I'm
no sissy,” he began, “but I've got
a lump in my throat. I've never
seen two people so devoted to each
other. You should have seen the
lock in her eyes when she was put-
ting that flower in H. R. H.'s lapel.
You know, they're as happy to-
gether as two high school kinds in
the middle of their first courtship.”
At that time, the Duke and Duch-
ess of Windor were nearing their
fourth wedding anniversary.
Every few months, some new
fantasy pops up to be added to the
sum total of the bunk which has
been spoken and written about the
Duke and Duchess. It's a penalty
we ordinary folks are spared. Ev-
erything about these people appeals
to the imagination, and as a result,
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Edward VIII and Wallis Warfield |
pain, the night a King who was also |
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No. 25
markings and numerals on all homes
in Dallas, Shavertown, and Trucksville.
which will train men and women in
national defense measures.
Dallas Borough.
, The construction of a new, short-
er highway between Dallas and Har-
tion in the Dallas area. ’
THE POST WANTS:
Permanent and legible street
Emphasis locally on activities
The installation of fire plugs in
Lake before 1942.
Centralization of police protec-
More sidewalks.
Building Boom Hits Area
As Modern Highways Open
Business Properties Take Lead
mn
In New Construction Along Roads
BE
BOB LEWIS IS STUMPED—
NOT THE EXPERTS—WHEN
HIS QUESTIONS ARE USED
There might have been a lit-
tle mix-up on the Information
. Please program Friday night
when that popular group of
radio experts answered correct-
ly all of Robert Lewis’ ques-
tions pertaining to items in the
war news. Bob’s dad, Atty.
Burt Lewis, of Dallas, thinks
the interlocutor, Clifton Fadi-
man, may have given the ex-
perts a good steer on the first
question. At any rate all of
them were slow on the take-off.
Mr. Lewis and his family were
startled when they heard the
questions announced over their
radio and still more surprised
when they received a check for
$10 Wednesday in Bob’s name,
because Bob has lived in Shav-
ertown for some time and had
forgotten sending any questions
to Information Please. Back in
1939 he recalls submitting some
questions and receiving an ac-
knowledgement, but whether
they were the same questions
read Friday night Bob can’t
quite remember—and neither
could we if we had the $10
check in hand.
Capt. C. N. Booth
Will Be Buried
Tomorrow At 2
Death Of Early Member
Ot Consiakulary Keenly
Felt Throughout State
Men in all walks of life through-
out northeastern Pennsylvania were
saddened Thursday morning by
the death of Chalkley N. Booth,
head of Booth Detective Agency and
long head of Lehigh Coal Company
police, late Wednesday night at
Homeopathic Hospital, Wilkes-Barre.
He had apparently been in good
health and had gone to the hospital
for a routine physical examination
and check-up when he was stricken
| with cerebral hemorrhage a week
ago Monday. He seemed to be hold-
ing his own until he slipped away
at 11:55 Tuesday night.
Funeral services will be held from
the Kniffen Funeral Home, Wyoming
> Kingston, Tuesday afternoon
at 2.
Chalkley N. Booth came from a
line of Virginia ancestors who named
him after a famous Methodist Circuit
Rider when he was born at Bran-
dywine-One-Hundred, Delaware, 63
years ago. While still a lad his fam-
ily moved to Philadelphia. There
in a city steeped in historic tradi-
tion the boy found outlet for his
intense patriotic emotions. He
joined a cadet corps and while still
under age enlisted with a Pennsyl-
vania National Guard Regiment at
the outbreak of the Spanish-Ameri-
can War. He was also a member of
the Philadelphia Fensibles—one of
the oldest patrioti¢ organizations in
the United States.
At the conclusion of the War
with Spain, he became one of the
original members of the Pennsyl-
vania Constabulary and served with
distinction at Troop B, Wyoming
Barracks and at other stations.
Some of his experiences in line of
duty, both with Troop B and with
Troop C, have been recounted in
Katherine Mayo’s book “The Stand-
ard Bearers” and in articles which
she wrote for the Saturday Evening
| Post.
Upon his retirement from the
State Constabulary, Captain Booth
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Opening of new highways in the
Back Mountain area has created re-
newed interest in building and prop-
erty improvements with many busi-
ness places and dwellings now un-
der construction and others planned
for construction during the summer
months.
Evidence of renewed interest in
property along the highway starts
in Luzerne Borough where John
Connelly is constructing a two-story
concrete block business property and
Clifford Johns of Prucksville is build-
ing a similar structure to house his
expanding Penn Glass and Mirror
Company.
Thomas Fogarty of Larksville has
his three-story 50x100 foot recrea-
tional center under roof on property
in Courtdale Borough which he re-
cently purchased from the Harding
Estate, near Summit Hill Marble
Company display grounds. Mr.
Fogarty has conducted a popular
restaurant and dance hall for young
people in Larksville for a number of
years and expects $0 open his new
business enterprise about the middle
of August. His lot has a 200-foot
frontage on Harvey's Lake Highway.
When the building is completed it
will be attractively landscaped. No
liquor will be sold and Mr. Fogarty
will make his appeal for business
with good food and a clean attrac-
tive place for young people to gather
with their companions and dance.
In Shavertown the Mahaffey Oil
Company of Kingston, distributor
of Amoco gasoline, is building a
new 34x50 service station on the
recently opened highway back of St.
Paul’s Lutheran Church.
Harry Goeringer has purchased
the corner property occupied by
Mrs. William E. Smith at the in-
tersection of the main highway and
Center street in Shavertown and
will erect a modern service station
there after removing the present
dwelling house.
Ike Brace, whose service station
was built some years ago, is ex-
cavating the area in front of his
property and moving his gasoline
pumps to highway level.
Lewis Roushey has the contract
for construction of a new dwelling
house on Harris Hill Road and R. A.
Williams will build three new homes
on his Druid Hills plot just off Pion-
eer Ave.
Phil Mosier is remodeling the
Shaver property on Main St., Shav-
ertown, and will modernize it
throughout. William Still is adding
two six-room apartments to his
property on Ridge St., Shavertown.
Charles Watkins is completing a
new home on Center St.
Out along the DeMunds Road,
John Polachak is remodeling and
repairing his home and buildings on
the Free Methedist Camp Grounds
in East Dallas are being renovated
and four new bungalows construct-
ed.
In Dallas Henry Urban is build-
ing a new home on Maplewood Ave.
in the Heights section, while John
Connolly has the foundations and
first story under construction for a
new seven-room native field stone
house of English architecture on a
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Lehman Band To Play
At Ide Family Reunion
The annual reunion of the Ide
family will be held Saturday, June
28, at Norris Grove, Hillside. Buses
will be met at Hillside from 10:30
to 11:30. An added feature of the
program this year will be the pres-
ence of Lehman High School Band
during the afternoon. Last year
more than 200 members of the fam-
ily attended the reunion and an
even larger attendance is expected
this year because of the nature of
the program.
Contractor Hopes
To Complete
Kunkle-Beaumont Road By July {
With paving on the Kunkle-Beau-
mont highway moving along smooth-
ly—except for occasional delays on
account of rain—Joseph Banks Con-
struction Company, contractor for
the greater share of the new high-
ways in this area, hopes to have
the road open for travel on July 4.
The right lane from the Elston
farm at Kunkle to Beaumont has
been laid and the contractor is now
ready to lay cement on the final lane
from Beaumont toward Kunkle.
A connecting link joining the new
highway with the Kunkle-Harvey’s
Lake highway near Devens’ Mill at
Kunkle remains to be filled and
graded. The bridge on this spur
was completed some time ago but
other work has been delayed until
a new concrete-block garage could
be built by Daniel Meeker whose old
building on the right-of-way had
to be razed.
It is not expected that the short
connecting spur will be paved until
cement is laid along the entire
length of the remaining lane of the
main highway. Given fair weather
the contractor is cenfident that all
cement will be laid by July 4.
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