QE [A a? rat SL NW Nd ATE DN) —— J z Forty Years Ago 1933 ~ Mrs. Harry Harding was in the news’ again, launching a not to recognize the Russia. A li-year old Edwardsville ‘days papers were not so gentle in their treatment of youthful offenders, giving names and _dates. Probably the kid is now a “solid citizen. so the Dallas Post will NOT republish his name. Could be it:would embarrass his college : age children, though maybe he treasures it as a hal- lowed memory. Morgan Cease, 70, owner of property flooded by the Cease- town dam, died after a long ill- ness. , Burgess Anderson urged everyone to buy, in order to help start wheels moving toward re- | newed prosperity. Charles Dressel headed the ‘Kingston Township Citizens Club. Kggs were 23 cents a dozen; peaches, two large cans for 25 : cents. BEAD Guest Editorial a FETA ‘ ; 2 (from Bor Tribune) : The Sunday New York Times ¢ carried a full page advertise- Z.ment: protesting the military “overthrow of the government of Salvadore Allende. There was the usual interminable list of sponsors and a box for volun- ‘teering contributions to the Chile Emergency Committee, based in New York. A quick check discloses most of the old familiar names and faces. The ‘‘cause’” may be dif- Mildred Sickler, 70. died in Noxen following a stroke. Thirty Years Ago 1943 Nearly 400 chickens burned to death when fire broke out in Clarence Esser’s house. Monroe Township dedicated its honor roll, inscribing 66 names on the plaque. The Dallas Warning Post opened on a 24 hour basis, or- ganized on an intermittent basis. Horse owners were finding themselves annoyed by kids in cars who deliberately set out to frighten their teams. Horse drawn vehicles were being used because of the scarcity of gas and tires, due to military needs. Great sport, frightening horses into running away. Again, the Dallas Post withholds names. Ten horsemen, guests of John Blackman: completed a 115- mile jaunt over the mountains. Edward Hartman, Trucksville, riding ‘Drill’, was the winner. The Navy wanted 50,000 wo- men to join the WAVES. Heard from the Outpost: Loren McCarthy, Jacksonville; Joseph Polachek, Texas; W. E. still off racing and baying at the first whiff of smoke. It used to draft or the bombing of Cambo- dia or the Democratic National Convention of 1968 or anything else that would serve. Now it’s For example: Bella Abzug, Congressperson; Daniel EHs- berg, the Pentagon Papers fil- cher: actress Jane Fonda, who bled for North Vietnam, and her husband, Tom Hayden, of the a _odiTig ow. .October 11, 1973 9. tute: Noes 186. Agreed to. Mr ity G 5. Rejected, Oct. 10. Ayes 130. Noes 278. Rejected. . Oct. 10. , Oct. 11: Agreed to, Oct. 11. FE John’ Stenger and Fred Merrill. Hospital. Crew: Deremer, Fort Monroe; Russell Transue, Johnson Field; Bill Dierolf, Pacific; Paul Redman, New York APO; Robert Lahr, Chapel Hill; Ethel Bertram, Daytona Beach; Robert Beck, Greensboro. Elma Major wrote a complete history of the first hundred years of the Huntsville Chris- tian Church and the Rev. and Mrs. Charles Frick were ten- dered a celebration on the cen- tennial date. Mr. and Mrs. John Lowe, Sha- vertown, observed their golden wedding anniversary. Twenty Years Ago 1953 Chuck Morrow caught a 13- pound lake trout -at Harveys Lake. one of the largest ever weighed on the fish scales. (Ever hear about the angler who weighed his newborn son on the trout scale and goggled his when they balanced ‘at 28 pounds?) Dallas Township floated a bond issue of $9,500 to finance lights and equipment. | Lehman-Jackson-Ross ~~ dis- cussed the possibility of a kin- Chicago Seven; Leonard Weinglass, a lawyer in that steamy trial (his sidekick, Wil- liam Kunstler, is mysteriously missing); the Berrigan bro- thers, Daniel and Phillip, the draft card protesters; plus the Black Panther Party. Also:Joan Baez, the lefty bal- lad singer; Corliss Lamont, long-time asvocate of far left causes; Huey Newton, the erst- while Black Panther activist; Dr. and Mrs. Irving Peress (who promoted Peress? as the late Joe McCarthy used to in- quire); Harriet Van Horne, the aginner columnist; Andreas Papandreou, a Greek cabinet minister before the junta took over; Women Strike for Peace; the Philadelphia War Tax Re- sistence, supposedly a hangover from Hanoi’s war, and assorted organizations opposing the Greek colonels, supporting African unity, or objecting to something going on in Ethiopia. It is a curious aggregation, with little if any Chilean repre- sentation. They seem to support the expropriation of American copper interests and the Inter- national Telephone & Telegraph properties, but are silent about Dr. Allende’s illegal seizure of farms and other Chilean pro- perties. They bemoan the down- fall of Dr. Allende’s ‘‘democra- tically-elected government,” which leads us to wonder how much they really. know about Chile and Dr. Allende. the Times reminds us that it is wide of the mark to describe the Allende government as the “first ~~ democratically-elected Marxist regime in the Western Hemisphere.” Dr. Allende was a minority candidate with 36 percent of the vote. Two other candidates of conservative cast had, respectively, 33 percent and 27 percent of the vote. The letter points out that either would have been a more popular choice but the Chilean Congress, although it have called a run-off election between the top two contenders, appointed Dr. Allende president under threat of bloody civil war. We're not endorsing military takeovers; but if the Allende re- gime is the only ‘‘democratic cause’ which today’s profes- sional protestors can find to shed their tears for, they must be hard up indeed. Stray Borough Dogs Numerous complaints will re- sult in another Dallas Borough crackdown on loose dogs, ac- cording to borough chief Ray Titus. The chief reports that he has been getting ‘‘too many dog calls’’ from people who claim that they can’t even take a walk without being jumped on or frightened by a dog. The chief said that he and his men will round up loose dogs. Licensed dog owners will get their animals back after paying a $25 fine and $11 in court costs. he added. Unlicensed dogs will be turned over to the ASPCA. Chief Titus reports that he and his men have a dog spray which will “knock down’ the stray dog for easy capture. Subscribe To The Post $v dergarten in the school system, spurred by parents who noted the success of Dallas kindergar- ten. : William Burnaford, soloist, and William Valentine,. pianist, signed up for the Back Moun- tain Community Concert. Wells were going dry. Harry Evans, Trucksville, re- leaser his brakes just in time to ease the shock of a rear end col- lision on Hillside. Injured were Lillian French, 85, St. Peters- burg, admitted to Nesbitt suf- fering from shock. Died: Emily Gregory Par- rish, 49. Dallas; Olive Hilbert Frey. 65, Beaumont; James Race, 83, Beaumont, and Susan Orr, Dallas. Bertha Jenkins, Huntsville, was recovering from illness and hoped to celebrate her 89th birthday at home. Ten Years Ago 1963 Volunteers, dogs, police, and an airplane joined in the search for Henry Metzger, 80, Shaver- town, who had wandered away from his home during the night. Kingston Township revealed plans for a new municipal build- Blood donations netted 112 pints. The Rev. Robert D. Yost, pas- tor of the Shavertown United Methodist Church, was named ‘Man of the Year” by the Dal- las American Legion. Sheryl Stanley. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Stanley, rep- resented Dallas High School in the 15th Annual Flaming Fol- iage Festival in Renovo. Dallas football team won over West Wyoming, 15-0, and Lake- Lehman trounced Wyoming, 18- dis Idetown Methodist Church in- stalled a new organ. Airman Charles Volak, Orange, was killed in an air- plane crash over Bolivia. Post editorial supported pre- servation of natural beauty in the area by protesting outdoor advertising ‘signs. Births: Carol Marie, daugh- ter of Mr. and Mrs. James Cas- terline, Harveys Lake; Craig Allan, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ro- liam: James, son of Mr. and Mrs. William White Dallas; and Mrs. Terry Evans, Dallas. Deaths: Emily Besecker, Dallas and Cory Crispell, Beau- mont. Supermarkets featured sir- loin and T-bone steak. 89 cents a pound; boiled ham, 89 cents a pound; whole smoked ham. 59 cents a pound; boneless chuck, 59 cents a pound; leg 0 lamb, 59 cents a pound; whole chickens, 26 cents a pound, and ground beef, $1.29 for three pounds. Post Office to Offer New Mailing Service A new service, ‘Stamps by Mail”, will be offered in the Dallas area, beginning later this month, it was announced recently by Bernard C. Gawlas, officer in charge of the Dallas Post Office. According to Mr. Gawlas, the service will permit customers to purchase stamps ‘and stamped envelopes through the mail. using a personal check or money order. Mr. Gawlas noted, ‘This service will be of great benefit to all our customers, especially shut-ins. the elderly, and working wives. It will enable them to satisfy their postal needs simply. rapidly, and inexpensively from their own homes.” Leaflets spelling out the details of the service will be distributed to area households and small businesses during the next few weeks. Borough Police Chief Gives Parents Advice *‘The kids'should be told not to open or eat’ their Halloween candy until they get home and their parents can look it over”, was the advice of Dallas Borough police chief Ray Titus. The chief cited an incident that occurred in the borough during a past Halloween. An up- ded in a candy bar that one youngster was given for his “trick-or-treat” efforts. With the increasing incidence f “‘booby-trapped’’ Halloween officials are recommending that parents feed their children to sample their rewards. pa- rental warnings notwithstand- (Editor’s note: This is the third of 20 essays by leading men in the world’s academic community. The writer of this essay is Pforzheimer Univer- sity professor and director, Charles Warren Center for Stu- dies in American History, Har- vard University. Herein he dis- cusses how the world can profit from a study of the American experience.) by Oscar Handlin For centuries, in many parts of the world, people who them- - selves never beheld the forests, plains, or cities of America felt that the human experience there had a relevance to their own fate. Even before Columbus, Euro- peans envisioned somewhere in the distance a New World where they could correct the failings of their familiar Old World, so that the strange continent when its outlines at last became clear seemed to be that land of their dreams. : It remained so for generation after generation—for thousands _ drawn by ambition to search for fortune or driven by faith to seek freedom. For millions in bread. And as the 20th Century approaches its last quarter, the have meaning in every part of the globe; for everywhere men and women still struggle either to preserve the liberty and plenty they have already gained or else to reach wistfully toward those prizes. In the beginning, America seemed the New World because it was open, making available to all an abundance of space and bounds of inherited institutions. It pointed toward the future rather than toward the past. Later, when the United States became an independent repu- blic and when its spaces filled up, it developed institutions which left open the possibilities for change, which indeed stressed the values of tran- science and improvement and rewarded people willing to move into the unknown. Such A Dallas Borough home was discovered to have been bur- glarized Oct. 8. The Joseph Fen- stemacher family of 85 Pine- crest Ave., Dallas, left their home Oct. 5, at noon, and re- 0 to find that the home had been entered in the interim. The back door had been smashed open, and an antique clock and $100 to $125 in silver has been removed, according to investigating officer, Chief Ray Titus. The state police were called in to help with the investigation. Their fingerprinting division found that the burglar or burg- lars wore gloves during the rob- bery. I Letters Dear Post: Every year we give credit-to a brave little Italian for ‘‘dis- covering” America...amazing thing about it is how did the In- dians, Eskimos, Incas, Norse- men, etc., get lost in the shuf- portant in a world torn by doubts about the future, no longer certain about the in- evitability of progress, and in- the nature of man. Experience taught Ameri- cans a different lesson. Few en- joyed lives of ease and comfort. Not the early immigrants who crossed the rough and unchart- ed Atlantic before coming Nor their successors, jammed in the steerages of vessels that brought them to lives of inces- sant labor in factory or con- struction gang. Not the farmers who might see months of toil put to nought by a turn in the weather or a fluctuation in a distant market. Not the businessmen, the pro- moters, the salesmen, endlessly striving for the success few would gain. No, ease was rarely among the New World’s pro- mises. 4 Nevertheless, Americans were optimists, often without il- lusions about the odds in any specific instance, but certain that each year would be an im- provement upon its predeces- sor. Their whole history was evidence: a tiny handful had grown in numbers to subdue a continent; from small begin- nings they had become great in power and wealth. Many famil- ies repeated on an individual scale the national pattern of rise from humble origins. To lack faith was foolish in a world in which opportunity abounded. Caution, comfortable habits, and tradition were impediments from the past which stood in the way of the future. Over and over Americans learned the necessity for taking risks, for surrendering what might be tolerable on the chance of gaining what might be better. They were plungers and speculators by tem- perament—not only the fron- tiersmen or those who built ex- tinkering inventors who puzzled over better ways of doing a job and the long line of reformers willing to upset the existing social order out of the certainty that improvement was possible. They were calculating obser- vers, not content to accept nature as given, ready to re- shape it to their own purposes. Where a forest stood, they saw clearings, fields of grain, and the timber to build ships and homes; rivers were for bridging and great distances for cross- ing. What had developed out of the past reached the present in order to be transformed for the future. It followed that Americans were no great respecters of age. Youth was ever the cherished season—for adventurous thoughts, for imaginative umbus was born! Let’s give credit to the original “Discoverer”! § Yours truly, Walter A. Zell once done. In the 20th Century, as in the 18th, this society loosened all personal ties. Family obli- gations were not to fence the next generation in, nor was loyalty to the particular place of one’s birth. The old Kentucky home was a subject for nostal- gia, but not a reason for staying put. The advance upon the fron- tier was a succession of abandonments, for the pull of the golden West emptied many ahearthside in the old East. The urban frontier had the same ef- fect; you could not keep them down on the farm once they glimpsed the lures of town. Americans became a restless people, ever in motion, deter- mined to let no sentimental con- siderations hinder the pursuit of opportunity. The world of the 1970’s, which increasingly values stability and’ tradition, and shuns change, might well reflect upon what would be lost with the ex- tinction of that optimistic will- ingness to bet on the future once characteristic of the Ameri- cans. The ability of a hetero- geneous population to live to- gether in tolerable harmony, the ideal of equal opportunity, and the commitment to freedom in significant ways all hinged upon the confidence in man’s capacity for improvement and in society’s ‘capacity for progress. Diversity of origins was always characteristic. of the population of the United States. Never could the myth of com- mon ancestry bind these people together. National sentiment sprang from another source. not from a view of the past but from an expectation about the future, from the belief of its people that’out of many they were becoming one. There were numerous flaws into practice: episodes of tragic prejudice and discrimination, outbursts of violence by group against group, as some Ameri: cans challenged the premise of diversity and hid beneath the Klanish sheets of racism. Still the national achievement was impressive, how impressive perhaps can be understood better in the 1970s than earlier. For a decade which, in many parts of the world, sees reli- gious, tribal, and national loyal- ties plunge into bitter conflict people who have lived side by side for centuries, the American experience has special rele- vance. Here the hopes for a common future, however slowly and imperfectly, persuaded those divided by race, by religion, and by ethnic origin that they all had more to lose by battling than by accepting one another. . Opportunity was the great persuader. There were impor- tant exceptions—slaves, In- dians held in reservations, and other victims of prejudice. Nevertheless the underlying thrust of American society has always been toward a widening of opportunity to enable all men and women to make what they could of themselves. All aspira- tions toward aristocracy, all efforts at inclusion and exclus- ion were pitiful failures; status in the United States depended not on rank or parentage but upon achievement. That did not equal chance to attain’ riches, but an increasing percentage found their work rewarded by improvement in their social position. The consciousness that careers of every sort were open to all gave meaning to the rest- less strivings of people in motion. A future of expanding horizons made room for all. At a time when competitive tensions tempt some to reach for privileged quotas, it is important to recall the extent to which equality of opportunity gave Americans a stake in the liberties of their country. From time to time, the delicate balance tipped either toward a self-centered individu- alism disregardful of the welfare of others, or toward a zealous evangelism determined to make saints of all whether they wished it or not. But in the past, at least, the willingness to bet on progress restored the balance between individuality and connectedness, between the claims of one and the rights of all, before too much damage was done. ~The disposition to look ahead also imparted a balance to the American understanding of freedom. Self-reliance was a virtue and each person could seek his own goal. But the front- ier, no less than the industrial environment, taught also the necessity for ‘cooperation. The individual, erness or the city, was weak and vulnerable--scarcely free.. The government that protect- ed him increased his power and therefore, up toa point, inéreas- ed his freedom. =. Much in the political history of the United States was an experiment to discover where that point lay. The state had to act, but only by the consent of those it governed and only in the interest of their general welfare: and large areas of life- religion, for instance--were outside its competence. Constitutional agreements and the tracts of political theor- ists supplied the words to describe the arrangements that preserved the balance. But cal understanding that usually enabled Americans to make those arrangements. There were dismal failures, as well as heartening successes. But a world still prone to violence and irrationality, a world which veers from the verge of anarchy to total dictatorship, can profit from reminders of the relev- ance of that American experi- ence. Lr the Granger collection). « % to BEY)
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