%» Established 1391 An independent paper, of the people, deveted to the great farm- ing section of Luzerne and other counties. : Trucksville, Shavertown, Lehman, Dallas, Luzerne, The Greater ~ West Side, Shawanese, Alderson, Centermoreland, Fernbrook, Lake- }- ton, Sweet Valley, Harvey’s Lake, Huntsville and Tunkhannock are circulated by The Dallas Post. ¥ Also 100 copies for Wilkes-Barre readers; 150 copies outside of Luzerne and Wyoming Counties, but within the boundaries of Penn- ~ sylvania; 200 copies to friends far away. Entered as second-class matter at the Post-Office at Dallas, Pa., under Act of March 3, 1879. A Subscription $1.00 per year Payable in advance Address all Communications to THE DALLAS POST Lehman Avenue Phone Dallas 300 Dallas, Pa. EDITORIAL COLUMN Devoted to the Current Topics of the Day HOOVER AND THE FARMER AGAIN Last week we set forth four of the six major problems facing the agricultural industry of the United States. At the same time pointing out how completely and how practically President ~ Hoover dealt with these four problems. The other two problems are of an entirely different type, possibly even more difficult to solve. Of the two remaining problems the first deals with tax- ‘ation on agricultural land. Comparatively few of us can thor- oughly understand the economics of taxation let alone compe- tently adjust it equitably. But this fact stands out i. e. that the farmer pays a double tax—a heavy tax on land and improvements, then again a tax on income from the land. We do not propose tax exemption on farm land, but we do support a farm land tax based on a ratio of what the land will produce. It is a problem within the individual states yet collectively it is of total impor- tance to the farmer. The last of the six problems deal with speculation in the farm products. Here again farm products “speculation sub-divides itself into speculation in the actual prod- ucts and speculating in paper, wheat and corn. There is no par- ~ ticular criticism if 20 farmers sell all their wheat, corn or cabbage to one buyer. The price the buyer pays in this case is largely determined by the actual supply of the corn. But these same buyers—called speculators, will buy on a produce exchange sever- al car loads of paper wheat and corn and sell the same paper wheat and corn the next day or the next month. Now the facts are that they did not deal with the wheat at all nor did they deal with warehouse receipts for wheat. Such a practise creates a flood of paper wheat, corn and the like and works to the disad-! vantage of proper pricing of the real product. We believe this | type of farm product speculation should be abolished. We be- lieve further that sooner or later it may require the strong arm of Hoover government to prevent such speculative action. BOYS SHOULD ATTEND CLASSES ‘The citizens of Dallas and the readers of The Post at large believe that it is time for the little boys on the Dallas School Board cut out the horse play, take off the boxing gloves and get | down to business in their classes. We believe that as school diregtors they can thus better serve the school and the community. little less time on petty bicker- ing and more time spent in the/investigation and employment of the best teachers possible, the best text books obtainable and the adoption of the best policies for child health would be heartily ap- proved by the entire community. A little spirit of give and take, with the good of the schools always in mind, rather than individ-| ual prejudices would in our mind be the shortest path to the kind of schools which Dallas Borough deserves. 5 i Co — $77 | woman and he were dancing correct- [ly and did not like the idea of leaving | the floor. Director Waters attempted to take them off the floor and failing, dark- 2 a bse | ened the light. Rather than cause Sr a 0 | any further embarrassment to the “Though I may disagree heartily | young woman, the young man imme- with what you say, 1 will defend with | diately left the floor and was com- my life your right to say it.”—Vol-| mended afterward for his gentleman- taire. ly conduct in ignoring the petty ac- CONTRIBUTORS COLUMN AT ACI 50) m0 0 amma 0X AD TI CT WD "The Dallas Post | from | Protective | food manufacturers of America, the | advertisement asked that the Lucky tion of the director. Editor of the Post— ~ Kindly send us a copy of The Dal-| las Post of April 6th for our files.| fany thanks for the splendid editor- jal in that issue. I believe many of your subscribers will now take a dif ferent attitude toward the Federation as a result of it. : RAY LLEWELLYN, Publicity Secretary, Community Welfare Federation » of Wyoming Valley. | ae "Editor of The Dallas Post: | ~ May 1 take this opportunity to com- | ~ mend the present editors and staff of - The Dallas Post on the recent. im-| provement in their paper. = The con- centration on news items relevant to | he residents of Greater- Dallas, the] delightful manner in which they are written and the attractive appear- ance of the front page, make me feel that The Dallas Post is a paper with not only an established present, but a wnoderful future. I am sure the res- ents of Dallas appreciate the im- rovement in their “local newspaper.” Sor GERTRUDE METH, : Adv. Mgr., J. R. Homer Co. (On EDITOR OF THE POST— On Tuesday evening the Dallas ~ High School Athletic Association held its first dance of the season in the new Dallas High School gymnasium. - The affair was very well attended, not only by the younger set, but by ‘several married couples about town. ‘A fine attendance was enjoyed from several ofgthe outlying districts. ~The Dallas Orchestra furnished the music and the most favorable com- ‘ment was heard on the quality of the usic furnished by our local boys. An incident which tended to mar he feeling of friendliness and damp- en the ardor of the dancers was the ‘unwarranted action of School Director aters. A prominent young man and young woman of this town were dancing ogether, and in the opinion of almost eryone present, were the best dancing couple on the floor. For some unknown reason, Director Wat- ers went out on the floor and request- ed them to leave. The young man ‘promptly told him that the young Various prominent people about town who attended the dance, al-| though not dancing, remarked on the | fine dancing of the couple and bitter- ly censured Mr. Waters’ action and | his display of crude and limited tact. In view of the high standing in our community of these two young people, I refrain from mentioning names and would rather not mention the incident {but I feel that this action by one member of the board, who feels that he has the control of the board should | be publicly censured. Perhaps Director Waters realizes his mistake by this time and although he might have acted in what he thought was good faith, his action was | totally uncalled for. In my mind this action has added | aditional hard feeling toward the| board and we are sure that the board | g Wesley J. Harvey, Tunkhannock garage man, received an airplane from Waco, Texas, the latter part of the week, which he will put into use as soon as he has learned to pilot it. It is a Curtis plane with a 90-horse power engine, capable of driving the machine at 120 miles an hour. 1t was formerly owned by a large daily newspaper and used in distributing advertising matter. It has been flown forty-five hours. Odd Fellows’ Lodges of Luzerne County observed the 110th annivers- ary of the founding of the Order in America on Friday night with a pro- gram in Wilkes-Barre Y. M. C. A. auditorium Judge Albert Lloyd. of Shamokin ‘was the speaker. Many Odd Fellows from hereabouts at- tended. Smooth, slippery, oily, Harry * F. Sinclair, unless pardoned, must serve three months in jail for his refusal to answer questions before the Sen- ate Teapot Dome Committee, Like many less wealthy crooks, Sinclair appealed the verdict but the Supreme Court upheld it at its sitting this week. Soon airplanes will hum over Wy- { A lease on 327 acres | oming Valley. of land as an airport sité was closed this week between Wilkes-Barre-Wy- oming Valley Airport Association and Ralph Garrahan, of Forty Fort. A six-passenger Bellanca two Travelair planes have been ordered delivered on June 1. 3 Baffled for four months, expert mining engineers were this week sue- cessful in extinguishing the $150,000 fire that has been raging in aban- doned workings of the Henry Col- liery of the Lehigh Valley Coal Com- pany at South Plains. Quite a few persons in Terrytown, N. Y,, it seems, are strangers to their most prominent resident, John D. Rockefellow, Jr. His car, this week, was broke down. He needed a lift to a garage. Scores of passing mot: orists failed to recognize him. Autopsy on exhumed body showed Walter Majesky, farmer, of Hones- dale, died of internal hemorrhage and had several broken ribs. His son, Walter, Jr., was this week under ar- rest. The father’s death was orig- inally reported ' as due to heart trouble. Gray-haired, kindly looking matren, Mrs. Mary Ware Dennett, was’ con- victed this week in Brooklyn for sending obscene matter through the mail. Her offense was a pamphlet on sex which she had written eleven years ago for her two sons, then aged 11 and 14. So fine was the pamphlet that the Y. M. C. A., school teachers, ministers, Columbia Uni- versity, physicians, and Union The- | ological Seminary had endorsed it for | young people over years. ever, allowed to reach the jury. The a period of ten| | verdict will be appealed. Great was the controversy caused this week when there appeared a full | &8 page advertisement in the New York Times denouncing the destructive propaganda program being broadcast weekly by Lucky Strike cigarettes. An open letter to the Advisory coun-| i cil of the National Broadcasting Co. the National Food Products Committee, the Strike program of Tainted Testimon- ials be barred from the air. In part] the letter said, “a great tobacco com- | pany, the American, backed by a fund | of $12,000,000, has undertaken to| transform 20,000,000 young men and | women of the United States into cig-| arette addicts by a campaign of] tainted testimonials secured from pro-| fessional athletes, motion picture] stars and other celebrities. monials of such a nature that the War Department has rebuked a gen-| eral and a leading steamship com- | ges pany has disciplined two officers for | § a similar offense.” The men referred to were: | paper had gone to press. No evidence of this was, how- |g n leading 55 Testi- | £8 General Bullard of the TU. i S. A. and Capt. Freed and Chief Of-| 5 < 4 ; 5 did get a glance at this column he 7) found it all decked out with so many