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By javie aiche
HOUGHTS
It may be that to Ireland
You look to find your sireland
~ Or else it may be Norway, Albion
or Sicily,
But somewhere in the hinterland,
A summerland or winterland,
You find the vague beginnings of
yourself as well as me.
Our ethnical totality,
Our blended nationality
Will offer such ingredients as Span-
ish, Welsh and Dutch,
You'll find that the Germanic race,
The Islams, the Iranic race,
The blacks and whites and yellows
all find shelter in our hutch.
We've folk here from The Nether.
lands
And Scotchmen from the heather-
lands,
With French and Poles and Czechs
and Fins and Latins polyglot,
~ In liberty a wealthy crew
We feed upon a healthy crew
From blood stains universal stewed
up in our melting pot.
Fraternity, sorority,
No matter what majority
Designs the course that we “must
take we go by major choice,
We put aside our selfish aims,
Our oafish aims, our elfish aims
To answer duty’s roll-call with a
sea-to-ocean voice.
From lakes to gulf, from prairie-land
And all that makes this fairyland
~ We raise the cry “America” the
watch-word of our souls,
We pledge our lives to treasure it,
By worthiness to measure it
As earth’s surviving Eden and our
common goal of goals.
We swear our oaths by ‘gars’ and
“cripes”’
‘But all are for the Stars and Stripes,
In divers tongues we praise it but
; with only one ideal;
No matter which and what betide.
We'll ask not who we fought beside,
But only as Americans defend our
commonweal.
It’s all for one, the place we love,
No matter which the race we love,
No matter what traditions may be
coursing through our blood;
The deluge is a rushing tide,
It well may be a crushing tide,
But stand together, comrades, and
we'll stem the frightful flood.
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THE LOW DOWN FROM
HICKORY GROVE
These strikes all over,
they get settled one day
and next week they break
out again — and some-
thing else has to be set-
tled. It is all one-sided
now. The folks in the sad-
dle are midin’ high and’
wide. While the going is
good, they are going.
It is mot a matter of
the right wages or the
right working conditions,
or the right anything else,
except one thing. It is a
closed shop they want,
where the boss takes out
the dues from each pay
envelope and hands it
over to the local chief-
tain—CIO or whoever is
running the local shebang,
and has the biggest fist.
But some day it will
‘back-fire, and the person
getting hurt worst will be
the very fellow who has
allowed his envelope to be
fumbled with most.
If tis ALL-TIME
WEAK SISTER and YES
SIR CONGRESS down on
the palavering Potomac
would take the bit in its
teeth for a part of one day
only, and fumigate our
NRLB, it would mot need
to hang its head, a few
years hence when its
grandson grows up and
says ‘‘grandpa, tell me
about the time when you
was Senator.”
Yours with the low down.
JOE SERRA.
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THE SAFETY VALVE - By Post Readers
Word From Tommy
Editor The Post:
Tommy Dropshinski is going fine.
Here are a few of the results. I
hope you'll find them interesting.
Tommy fought last Monday and
“ko’ed” Gregory Hildo in two min-
utes of the first round of their six-
round fight. Tommy fought two
six-rounders and won both of them
by knock-outs. He fought sixteen
professional fights and lost only one.
He won fifteen—twelve of them by
knock-outs and three went the four
rounds. He fights again Monday
and then takes a rest for a month.
I know the home folks will be
glad to learn of the record Tommy
is making.
Pete Davis,
148 Central Avenue,
Newark, N. J.
Thanks, Mrs, Ruth
Editor The Post:
Will you kindly see that The Post
is sent to my new address in Phila-
delphia. I want to get the news
from up here. The Dallas Post has
improved a lot since we first got
it. I always read it as soon as it
comes, there is so much news in it.
Mrs. Bertha Ruth,
Alderson, Pa.
Editor’s Note:
Mrs. Ruth’s note is deeply appre-
ciated. We'll not soon forget the
encouragement and co-operation
her husband, the late Capt. Ruth,
gave us during our early days as ed-
itors of The Post.
For Bird Lovers
The following letter was
prompted by the 93rd birthday
anniversary of Mrs. Rachel S.
Wyecoff of Center Hill road, and
was written August 12th, a day
or so before the happy event:
The Editor:
Appropos of the worthwhile
“community project” of The Dallas
Post in recently issuing such a finely
illustrated special edition of “Past,
Present and Future Dallas,” the fol-
lowing local history seems fitting:
A ledge of mica rock in a stone
quarry just outside the Quaker-
founded town of Media, Delaware
County, near Philadelphia, was
blasted from its accompanying lay-
ers .of quartz to be squared into
blocks for building purposes.
Before being thus trimmed into
artificial regularity, word of the
blasting was sent to The Bird Man,
so that, if his keen eyes should find
some pieces which would serve an
even finer purpose in the natural
shape, those need not be “cut and
hewn” out of all semblance to the
original form.
Among those so saved was a
small, shell-like piece which was at
once envisioned as offering an at-
tractive invitation to the ‘transient
or permanent feathered guests” that
might accept the hospitable courte-
sies of some human folk who live on
a hill-top near Dallas.
Thus it came about that this par-
ticular piece of mica in company
with many other such ‘specials’
traveled in a truck for some miles
from its quarry—home to a certain
bark-covered bungalow in a woody
setting.
Here, a wise combination of chisel
and hammer and muscle, guided by
an understanding vision, converted
it into a “thing of use” without de-
stroying its beauty! .
Loaded carefully into the back of
a “Faithful Old Ford” which has
covered over 127,000 miles since its
birth in 1929, and which was proud
to be used for this particular pur-
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a community institution’
THE DALLAS POST
ESTABLISHED 1889
A mon-partisan liberal
progressive newspaper 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.
Single copies, at a rate of Sc
each, can be obtained every Fri-
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ville, Frantz Fairlawn Store.
Editor and Publisher
HOWARD W. RISLEY
Associate Editors
MYRA ZEISER RISLEY
WARREN F. HICKS
Contributing Editors
FRED M. KIEFER
JOHN V. HEFFERNAN
Mechanical Superintendent
HAROLD J. PRICE
pose, the shining mica bath was car-
ried up and over the hills and
mountains between Philadelphia and
Dallas.
A very special day was at hand.
Special for not only those who dwell |
on this hilltop, but also special for
the other kith and kin, and for
friends near and far—a 93rd birth-
day anniversary!
Willing hands, and a wheelbar-
row, both equally acceptable and
efficient means of transportation,
located the stone in plain view of
the vine-covered upstairs porch
where the 93-year-young person
spends much of her time.
The same porch where jolly chick-
adees love to dine holding the sun-
flower seeds with their toes while
they pick open the hull and munch
the kernel. Where quiet chipping
sparrows find an always adequate
supply of their favorite millet for
the taking. Where white-breasted
nuthatchers come ‘“head-on” down
the Wisteria trunk, ‘“‘yawk’ing nasal
thanks, and woodpeckers relish a
billful of suet, seated upon their
stiff tail-feathers.
These and other feathered guests
have learned of the unending hos-
pitality and thoughtfulness these
hill-top folk feel toward the birds
. . and no doubt some one of them
will help to dedicate the new birth
bath!
Since the aforesaid Bird Man could
not be present at the ceremonies,
his first assistant, the Bird Woman,
escorted the mica stone and with
local moss and ferns helped to make
it look ‘at home,” though the sur-
rounding rocks bear no semblance
to its ancestry!
There is little doubt about the re-
sponse there will be on the part
of the wild birds! There is much
speculation as to which one will first
discover this added supply of fresh,
clean water for drinking and bath-
ing and make use thereof!
A little item- in the history of
Dallas? So it may seem to some
folks at first glance. Let's think
a minute! The people in and about
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Dallas are being called upon to de-
fend America and all that America
means!
What defense measure is ‘greater,
of more far-reaching value,
that of defending America’s wealth
of natural - resources—a defense
measure in which each one can do
a share.
Begin in Dallas—in one’s own
yard—defending one of America’s
richest assets, the native wild-bird
life!
Latest bulletin—In too much of a
hurry to wait until the proper day—
the 14th—a very demure Goldfinch
hastily snatched a sip from the rim
of the shell-like pool—and so began
the dedication ceremonies . . . to-
day, the 12th.
Always ready with some happy
idea, the one who carries her nine-
ty-three years with a smiling face
and a love that includes all, chris-
tened the new bath ‘Lake Flor-
ence,” a companion piece for the
already established “Everett Pond.”
And because Rachel S. Wycoff
and her daughter feel that serving
the needs of God’s little feathered
people is also serving Him, these
two stones will fill a need as fully
and faithfully as does the beautiful
reservoir—a source of welfare and
happiness to many!
Mrs. Everett S. Griscom,
Briar Bush Bird Sanctuary,
Roslyn, Pa.
Out For Governor
To Whom It May Concern:
I, Virginia Harding of Trucksyille,
Pa., announce my intention of Ccom-
petitive participation in the Guber-
natorial primaries next fall. Where
angels fear to tread, fools rush in.
Therefore, I must be a fool. In the
ancient days kings were entertained
by mountebanks. It is only fair
that now, since kings are very much
out of style, that the mountebank
should have his day.
When women were given the vot- |
ing franchise,
conception that politics would be
clean and the world in general
would show an improved condition.
What happened? The same old
gender (masculine) used the influ-
ence of women to further their cor-
rupt ambitions. The challenge has
never been answered by the women.
This day I call upon all women
of the State of Pennsylvania to lend
their support to my campaign. It
will be an all-woman ticket. I ask
all men voters to give us one term
of office in Harrisburg to clean up
the mess you men have plunged the
people of Pennsylvania into.
My ambitions in asking the sup-
port of the voters are not of a sef-
fish nature. In the first place, I
am an unknown. I am poor in a
monetary sense. But my heart goes
out to the aged, the orphans, the
laborer and the helpless who are
ground into the dust by every elec-
tion of the wise lawyer who is in-
stilled by selfish desire to rule. The
blind have my ear in their struggle
against the world, which is more
or less cut out from them.
1 believe that God made women
to use their judgment insofar as he
gave them the power to create.
man would be alive today if woman
had brought him into the world and
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THE SENTINERTAL SIDE
By EDITH BLEZ
absolutely nothing.
tion—and we are a good hour from
POETRY
In A Friendly
Sort 0’ Way
When a man ain’t got a cent, and
he’s feeling kind o’ blue,
An’ the clouds hang dark an’ heavy,
an’ won't let the sunshine
through,
It’s a great thing, Oh my brethren,
for a feller just to lay
His hand upon your shoulder in a
friendly sort o’ way!
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It makes a man feel curious; it
makes the tear drops start,
An’ you sort o’ feel a flutter in the
region of the heart:
You can’t look up and meet his
eyes—you don’t know what to
say
When his hand is on your shoulder
in a friendly sort o’ way.
Oh, the world’s a curious compound,
with its honey and its gall,
With its care and bitter crosses, but
a good worl’ after all;
An’ a good God must have made
it—leastways, that is what I
say,
When a hand is on my shoulder in
a friendly sort o’ way.
—Author Unknown.
form—a year in which every voter
may hear us and question us. And
if the women are given a fair chance
at government, they will show the
people of Pennsylvania that at least
women know what truly social re-
form is, and what honesty in hand-
ling the public purse means.
Women who have had to meet
emergencies in their households due
to conditions presented by the fail-
ure of men who make conditions,
will rise from all over the state and
give a hand in its management.
What is it that I hear? We
never could make it? Nonsense!
A woman can do anything that is
good and noble. Well, suppose your
opponents bring out things that may
hurt you? To that I shall say,
“Bring them out!” I declare myself
a sinner. Aren't we all? But so
long as I declare myself a sinner,
and ask God to save me and walk
with me, there won’t be room on
the road for the devil, too. As to
any skeleton rattling about in my
family closet, be assured it is no
larger than is the skeleton of any
voter or opponent.
Virginia Harding.
MORE ON ELECTION
Editor The Post:
I regret that your paper did not
inform your readers last week that
the combined vote given Clarence
Laidler and Mrs. Rozella Carlin, can-
didates for school director in Dallas
Township, exceeded that given the
winning Republican candidate, and
that Mrs. Carlin and Mr. Laidler
were very close to a tie for second
place with Mrs. Carlin having a
slight edge.
Respectfully
A Township Voter
We have just come out at the bad end of another
session with the new young lady in our house!
come to the age where now she travels by herself but as usual time means
If she has a train to make from Broad street sta-
making a train”
Our fair daughter has
the station, and there is always the
possibility of late busses and traffic
jams—it is never necessary to leave
the house until one hour before the
train leaves. When we try to get
our fair daughter on her way at a
reasonable time there is always a
battle and it begins something like
this:
We suggest at the beginning that
we think it would be a good idea if
she would begin packing her clothes.
We are no longer permitted to paek!
We are not permitted to pack be-
cause we always pack too much.
Our fair daughter takes what is ab-
solutely necessary, no more, no less.
An extra pair of stickings, an extra
‘handkerchief would be too much.
Some times we are allowed in at
the finish. We are permitted to
take part in the closing episode par-
ticularly when the suitcase is a little
difficult to close!
Today it was vitally important
that our fair daughter catch the 5
o'clock train because she had to
make connections later with an-
other train. But two hours before
train time with one hour to reach
the station, she was still wandering
around the house. We did manage
to get her upstairs and just about
five minutes before the actual dead-
line we suggested that the new
young lady in our house hurry a
little. We stepped into her room
to see if there was anything we
could do, when, believe it or not,
she was doing her nails. She was
putting polish on her nails! When
we suggested that she must be com-
pletely out of her mind, and asked
why the nails hadn’t been done
hours ago, she insisted that her
nails had slipped her mind and they
had to be done. She could not go
to New York without polish on her
nails! We did finally get her down-
stairs and out of the house but our
success was short-lived. Half way
down the garden path, the suitcase
was put down, and the coat was
thrown across the nearest bush. The
nail polish had smeared and from
all appearance it was all our fault!
We had hurried her! We always
hurried her. She would be too early -
anyhow and look what had hap-
pened! She would not go to New
York with her nail polish all
smeared!
We were panic stricken, not that
we were being scolded, but we
thought our fair daughter might in-
sist on doing her nails all over again
—train or no train. But she com-
promised! Would we please run up-
stairs and get the nail polish and
she would do her nails on the train.
Because we were practically out of
our mind we did run upstairs and
get the nail polish. Our fair daugh-
ter thanked us very sweetly, and
said goodbye in her very best man-
ner.
Will the time ever come when
our daughter will realize that train
schedules were made so that people
can reach their destinations on
time? Will she get over the idea
that she is more important than a
train? Will she ever be one minute
early for anything? Will she ever
go anywhere, anywhere at all, with-
out an argument? Will she?
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O God. our help in ages past.
Our hope for years to come;
Our shelter from the stormy blast,
And our eternal home!
Sufficient is Thine arm alone,
And our defense is sure.
Under the shadow of Thy throne >
Thy saints have dwelt secure; BC
“0 GOD, OUR HELP IN SIGES PAST”
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atts must have depended on God'for his own dona
cared for him until he was capable
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An invalid, sul
of caring for himself. Why, then,
is it presumptious for woman to
take upon herself the highest office
in the State? If all of the women
of Pennsylvania will stand behind
me in the election for Governor, to-
gether we will prove we are worthy.
We have nearly a year in which
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FUNERAL DIRECTOR
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to present to the voters our plat-
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