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Bethlehem Is The Christmas
City Of The Keystone State
Yuletide Festival Annually Attracts
Tousands Of Pennyslvania Tourists
The City of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, has become widely known as the
“Christmas City of the United States.” This appellation is all the more sig-
nificant this year for the reason that the people of Bethlehem on the eve-
ning of December 24 will begin one of two city-wide celebrations of the bi-
centennial of that municipality. It was Christmas Eve, December 24, 1741,
that the early Moravian settlers®
. gathered in their first log cabin and
during their worship service were
inspired to name their new-world
home “Bethlehem.” The Christmas
Eve celebration will be especially
appropriate in that it will present
much of the sacred songs of the
season for which Bethlehem has
long been famous, ;
Commenting upon this celebra-
tion, Vernon K. Melhado, President
of the Bethlehem Chamber of Com-
merce and a guiding force in the
Christmas City program, summar-
izes the aim and ideals of Bethle-
hem when he says: “We, the citi-
zens of Bethlehem, feel that the
Bethlehem of Pennsylvania is the
traditional Christmas city of state
and country. We do not say this to
exclude a single American com-
munity from the Christmas spirit.
Massachusetts does not exclude
Arizona from the spirit and observ-
ance of Thanksgiving, nor does
Philadelphia begrudge to other com-
munities the commemoration of In-
dependence Day,
“So, we in Bethlehem do not
claim that Bethlehem created
Christmas. Nor do we do anything
but admire and appreciate the
Christmas spirit of our neighboring
cities and towns in our great Na-
tion, We do not say Bethlehem cre-
ated Christmas. What we say is
that Christmas created Bethlehem.
“Our Bethlehem—The Bethlehem
of the New World—has in its very
name a tradition and hope upon
which rests the thesis of Christian-
ity. Add to this the traditions as-
sociated with the naming of our
Bethlehem and you cannot help but
realize that here is a community
which must not fail to remember
the circumstances of its birth.”
Thé Christmas City
During the Christmas season
thousands of persons from all over
the United States send their greet-
ing cards for re-mailing and thous-
ands journey to Bethlehem each
year to see the traditional Morav-
ian “Putz” a distinct Bethlehem
contribution to the Christmas sea-
son, which will be presented as us-
ual this year,
Bethlehem is rich in an early
American history and legend. It was
founded in 1741 by members of the
Protestant Episcopal Church, the
Unitas Fratrum, more generally |
known as Moravian, a missionary
Fiith Of Family Recormios
Member Of Boys’ Choir
Nine-year-old Sheldon MacAvoy
of Shavertown has been accepted as
a soprano soloist with St. Stephen’s
Boy's Choir, Wilkes-Barre, Sheldon
is the fifth in his family to have
sung with St. Stephens. His uncles,
William, Sheldon, Donald and Dan-
iel Evans were all members of the
choir for a number of years. They
had the distinction of all being
soloists and being the only four
brothers ever to sing in the choir
at the same time.
Distribute Shoes
Following its custom of many
years, Mt. Greenwood Kiwanis Club
is distributing $250 worth of shoes
and artics to underprivileged chil-
dren in the Back Mountain region.
Howard Woolbert is chairman of the
committee.
Electric Stars
Two attractive stars have been
erected on the Shavertown Grade
School building by the janitor, John
Stevenson. A blue star illuminates
the front of the school house and
a brilliant red star is visible from
the new highway back of the build-
ing. Mr. Stevenson, who is a car-
penter, made the stars himself.
MEEKER
Mrs. John Rebennack who has
been ill for the past week is some-
what improved.
Lawrence Drabick who has been
employed in Baltimore, spent the
week-end with his parents, Mr. and
Mrs, William Drabick,
Mrs. Walter Wolfe R. N., is tak-
ing care of Frank Foss of Sweet Val-
ley who is ill with pneumonia at
Nesbitt Hospital.
Mr. and Mrs. James Davenport
recently entertained for a few days
Mrs. Alice Lattimer of Newburgh, N,
Y.,, and Helen Thompson of High-
land, N. J.
Mr. and Mrs. William Valentine
will entertain at a family dinner on
Christmas day.
Mr, and Mrs. James Hildebrant
and family of West Greenfield will
spend the holidays as guests of Mr.
and Mrs. John, Hildebrant.
effort to the’ Indians and the Ger-
man settlers of that section of
Pennsylvania. The first building of |
the town, a log cabin, was built on |
an old Indian trail above the Mon- |
acacy near the site of the present |
Bethlehem Hotel. It was here that
the Christmas Eve service was held
at which Bethlehem was named. |
Many of the early buildings of |
the eighteenth century architecture
are still in use, with quaint dorm-
ers, hand-hewn logs of virgin tim-
bers, handmade locks and hinges,
and sturdy buttresses.
Through these buildings, young
women of the Moravian Service
Guild in traditional eighteenth cen-
tury Moravian costume during the
Christmas season will conduct vis-
itors and tell the story of early
Bethlehem. Thus will be created the
atmosphere of the stern life of the
wilderness, hostile and friendly In-
dians, game and wild life in the for-
est, streams abounding with fish,
early industries, and music as a ser-
vice and a recreation. |
Place Of Refuge
Miss Esther Decker, a student at
Stroudsburg State Teacher’s College,
is spending th holiday vacation
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Fish Supper
Men's Bible Class will hold a fish
supper in the church basement on
New Year’s Eve. Following the sup-
per Biblical pictures will be shown
and a midnight Communion service
conducted.
eral Pulaski, John Paul Jones, John
Adams and others of the signatories
of the Declaration of Independence,
Dr. Warren and Dr, Lewis of the
Continental Army Hospital, and
many others. Outdoors, visitors may
walk through the peaceful grave-
yard where lie the founders and
forefathers of the town, many
friendly Indians, West Indian Negro
converts, the ‘Strangers Row,” a
Revolutionary surgeon and a stew-
ard of the Continental Hospital.
Bethlehem can claim many
“firsts” and ‘“oldests”: The first
Bethlehem was a city of refuge in | community water works in the
the French and Indian War and a [United States, and the newest, too,
supply center and hospital in Rev- | but recently dedicated; the oldest
olutionary days. Visitors pass | fire engine, brought from London in
through the halls where walked 1762; Simon Rau and Company, the
many great figures of the colonial | oldest drug firm in continuous ex-
period, George and Martha Wash- istence in the United States; as well
ington, Baron von Steuben, Baron |as the oldest Protestant girls’ board-
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But Bethlehem will not be con-
| tent with the Christmas Eve celebra-
| tion alone. On June 24 it will begin
another period of celebration, be-
| cause it was on that date in 1742
i that members of the congregation
held a general council of all the
people in the settlement and took
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| THESAFETY VALVE- By Post Readers
Bir Raid Post
Wardens Named
District Nine Now
Completely Manned
Air raid post wardens and their
assistants: Dallas Borough: Post 1,
business section, Lake and Church
streets; John Hislop, Karl Kuehn,
Harold Titman, Daniel Richards;
Post 2, Brooklyn section, east of
Main street, Clyde Veitch, William
Carrol, George Lewis; Post, 3, Cen-
ter Hill area, John Jeter, Ray Shi-
ber. Charles Elston; Post 4, Parrish
Heights, William Schmoll, Joseph
Scherer, Clifford Space; Post 5,
Machell, Norton, Lehman avenue,
and Huntsville and Franklin streets,
George Von Arx, Irwin Coolbaugh,
John Durbin; Post 6, Irem Country
Club, Carl Schlingmann.
Dallas Township: Post 1, Kunkle
to Demunds, Ike Elston, David Bev-
an, A. C. Devens, Olin Kunkle; Post
2, Fernbrook to Pioneer avenue,
Earl Layaou, Clyde Hope, William
O’Boyle, Henry Ralston; Post 3,
Fernbrook, Demunds and Payne's
farm area, Fred Hughey, Leslie
Schultz, Fred Lamoreaux; Post 4,
Dallas Fair Grounds area and Goss
Manor, Arthur Newman, Giles Wil-
son, Wilson Ryman.
Jack Township: Post 1, Chase to
Farmer’s Inn, William Hablett, Earl
S. Smith, Lansford Noryris, James
Simpson; Post 2, back section, El-
mer Laskowski, J, K. Murray, F. A.
Shouldice.
“Whitey” Brace Sends
Greetings From Iceland
Friends of Granville “Whitey”
Brace, who is stationed with Amer-
ican Expeditionary Forces in Ice-
land, have reecived novel Christmas
cards mailed November 20. The
front appropriately is a map of Ice-
land with a polar bear silhoutted
in the background, The coats-of-
| arms of the United States, Canada
and Great Britain are embossed in
color around the edges. Inside de-
i picts an Iceland winter scene with
| snow bound half-round army huts
and sky ablaze with the northern
[lights. Stars form an enormous
I celestial “V* for victory.
“Whitey’s”” Iceland adventure
Too Little and Too Late
December 20, 1941.
Breakdown of the conference be-
tween business and labor, called by
the President, to arrive at an agree-
ment whereby work stoppages would
be out for the duration was an-
nounced by press and radio this
morning. The breakdown was caus-
ed by, and I quote an AP story,
“the union shop issue was said to
be the chief: stumbling block to
reaching an agreement.” One of the
radio news-casters said, “the closed
shop issue has again raised its ugly
head.” “Ugly Head” to my way of
thinking is the correct way to des-
| ignate this thing; the closed shop
means just what it implies namely,
that no man is privileged to work
| in a shop having a union unless he
joins that union. Don’t forget that
i the goal of these Hitlers of labor is |
the unionization of every working
man in the country. Boiled down |
this means that the racketeers are
determined to see to it that they
i collect their tribute, “their pound of
flesh,” if you please, from every
sweating worker. In other words,
unless some one calls a halt on these
human vultures, no man may sell |
his services save he has the ‘Mark |
of the Beast in his hand or on his |
forehead.” It is not my purpose ta
belittle labor unions nor to minim-
ize the good they have done; neither
is it my purpose to detract from
honest labor leaders, but the satur-
ation point has been reached and
passed where labor disputes can be
tolerated. This is WAR, my fellow
citizens, with all the sacrifices and
blood and tears that go with it.
Time was, perhaps, when it was all
right for our President to go to labor
leaders. hat in hand, and say ‘“pret-
{ty please” but I submit that time
is past and its now up to him to
lay down his hat, put his coat on
top of it and use sterner methods.
We have stopped temporizing and
appeasing our foreign enemies and |
it’s high time we quit the same with
the enemies within our borders. No
| Nazi trained regiment of saboteurs
could have done a better job of
hindering our armament program |
than have these unscrupulous labor
MAIN Highway, SHAVERTOWN ji first steps toward a definite organ- | 1eaders. They have hidden under the
ization of the community.
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HOWARD H. WOOLBERT
FUNERAL DIRECTOR
DA td 400 ® SHAVERTOWN, PA,
SONS, ery A
cloak of “labor’s constitutional right |
to organize and strike” to gain their
own selfish ends with no regard
whatever for the welfare of their
country. \
secular history, is there a more
striking example of man’s ingrati-
tude than that displayed by the
present day labor leaders. In spite
of the fact that labor, in its fight
for emancipation has made more
gains under Mr. Roosevelt than it
made before in the history of its
fight taken as a whole. In spite of
this I say, they have contemptously
turned down his appeals for co-op-
eration. They have steadfastly set
their faces against the appeals of
this kindly man and; have like mad
dogs, bitten the hand that was feed-
{ing them. If this act of gross in-
| gratitude effected only the Presi-
dent and he saw fit to ignore it, it
would be none of our business, but
since it vitally effects the welfare
of the whaglé one hundred and thir-
ty millions of us, it becomes every-
body’s business,
Events of the past two weeks
“More than a newspaper,
a community institution”
THE DALLAS POST
ESTABLISHED 1889
A non-partisan liberal
progressive newspaper pub-
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at its plant on Lehman Ave-
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Entered as second-class matter
at the post office at Dallas, Pa.,
under the Act of March 3, 1879.
Subscriptions, $2 a year, payable
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Single copies, at a rate of 5c
each, can be obtained every Fri-
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newsstands: Dallas: Hislop’s Rest-
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Frantz Fairlawn Store; Idetown:
Cave’s Cash Store.
Editor and Publisher
HOWARD W. RISLEY
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The eolumnists and con-
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allowed great latitude in
ewpressing their own opin-
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DALLAS, PENNA.
MEMBERS AMERICAN
BANKERS’ ASSOCIATION
DIRECTORS
R. L. Brickel, C. A. Frantz, W. B
Jeter, Sterling Machell, W. R. Neely,
Clifford Space, A. C. Devens,
Herbert Hill.
OFFICERS
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Sterling Machell, Vice-President
W. R. Neely, Vice-President
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No account too small to secure
careful attention.
have proven beyond per-adven-
ture that the President’s foreign
policy was one hundred per cent
right. He cried “wolf” and labor
leaders called a strike in the air-
plane industry; he again - cried
“wolf” and they called a strike in
the shipyards; again he cried “wolf,
wolf” and they called jurisdictional
strikes . . . fighting among them-
selves for the privilege of skimming
the fat off the sweat of the labor-
ing man’s brow.
Is it any wonder that you and I,
the great American public, are pro-
voked almost beyond endurance?
The President proclaimed an emer-
gency, the Congress declared war af-
ter a dasterdly surprise attack and
in the face of all this when the
President asked the labor leaders
for their co-opeartion they dared to
raise the issue of the “closed shop”
as a basis for any agreement not
to strike. For Shame. These labor
leaders alone are responsible for our
woeful lack of the sinews of war
and we find ourselves in a position
that is best illustrated by a para-
phrase of two lines of the poem,
“Maude Miller.”
“Of all sad words, that we will learn
to hate,
The saddest are these, TOO LITTLE
AND TOO LATE.
Harry B. Allen.
The Navy Hydrographic Office
normally publishes 450,000 copies
of nautical charts, now it issues 2,-
331,000.
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i go to that northern post rather than
choose Trinidad which the army of-
fered an an alternative.
Damage To Structure
Fire of undetermined origin for
| a time Saturday night threatened
jhe unoccupied frame house on
| Orchard street, Fernbrook, owned by
{O. R. Mullison, general manager of
jthe American Stores Company,
Three Mentioned
For Council Job
Franklin, Cave And
Ohlman Are Favored
Salaries of police, street commis-
sioners and other Borough employ-
ees were paid at a brief meeting of
council held for the purpose Friday
night in the Borough Building. No
other business of importance was
transacted. Councilmen discussed in-
formally the appointment of a new
councilman to fill the unexpired
term of James Ayre who has taken
a defense job with the York Safe &
Lock Company.
Mr. Ayre has not yet resigned and
may be able to handle his council-
manic duties during his frequent
trips home. If he decides to resign,
Council can appoint a man to fill
the unexpired term until the next
regular election when a new -coun-
cilman will have to be elected, If it
chooses, council may defer appoint-
ing anyone in which case the Court
will name a man to serve Mr. Ayre's
entire unexpired term.
Among those who have been men-
tioned are James Franklin, Harry
Ohlman and Nick Cave, Mr. Ohlman
and Mr. Cave were both candidates
for Council at the recent election.
Mr, Franklin was a member of
Council until the last election when
he decided not to aspire for the
office, It is believed, however, that
he would be willing to serve again
if asked to do so by members of
Council.
Doorways Will Be
Judged On Friday
Wyoming Valley Garden Club's
Christmas doorway contest in Dal-
las Borough will be judged by Mrs.
Wilbur Manning and Mrs. Jerome
Marshall on December 26, Mr. and
Mrs. Jolin Williams have contribu-
ted the prize, a beautiful flower
container.
Contest entries should be made
with Mrs. Herbert A. Smith before
Christmas Eve. All residents of the
borough who decorate their door-
ways, no matter how simply, should
enter the contests. The award will
be made on the basis of artistry
rather than on profusion of deco-
ration. In an effort to promote con-
servation of laurel and rhododen-
dron, no doorways decorated with
those materials will be judged.
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