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ing section of Luzerne and other counties.
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}- ton, Sweet Valley, Harvey’s Lake, Huntsville and Tunkhannock are
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Luzerne and Wyoming Counties, but within the boundaries of Penn-
~ sylvania; 200 copies to friends far away.
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under Act of March 3, 1879.
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THE DALLAS POST
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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.
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| 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
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"The Dallas Post
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| 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. |
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"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 |
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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
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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
<P choice morsals it looked like a Christ-
mas tree.
Well, fate hasn’t been so kind this
week and again the pup goes hungry
for want of food for his diet of verse,
rhyme, jingle and litererary master-
pieces.
ie. CORNER.
The" Firemen Dances
It was remarked, around the corner
that firemen are planning to hold
another dance in the near future.
Let’s all get out and push these af-
fairs along. /
The last affair was well attended,
and many women of the town who do
not approve dancing, came anyway
and played cards and otherwise en-
joyed themselves. a Ee — ——
The writer noticed Mrs. Arthur
Turner, Mrs. Parrish, Miss Still, Mrs.
Anyway here’s something someone
sent in to stave off starvation.
THRO’ THE YEARS
I know that thro’ the years
Will come sorrow and tears
But it does not.matter, dear
As long as you are near.
Sometimes we’ll be happy,
Sometimes, yes, we’ll have our fun
But there are times, my dear
‘When our hearts are filled with fear.
Tia
Fear of the problems we meet in life
Fear of the {rials we meet in the
strife, »
Yes, there’ll be many fears
To conquer thro’ the years.
But love is the sweetest story
And real love never does grow old,
And as long as we have it, we’ll con-
quer all fears,
That we meet, my dear, thro’ the
years. :
—A Post Reader.
Oliver, Mrs. Disque, Mrs. Kunkle,
| Mrs. Space, Mrs. Machell, Mrs. Be-
“secker, and oh so many people of the
|'town at the affair. These women can
be of great assistance to the firemen
by giving not only their moral, but
physical support to any clean enter-
tainment that will bring income to
the fire company. When Dallas
wants to put a thing across it can
| do it, and as the members of the fire
| company and their families practical- |§
|ly have the controlling vote of the |{
| town, they are the best organization
| to further other activities for the
benefit of the town. 8
Stanley Doll ; |
| The writer feels that Stanley Doll,
| and our opinion is shared by many,
is one of the two logical men to ag- |
| pire for the office of school director §
this coming fall. Stanley as he is |}
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| known to me is a square shooter, an |
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— To, — ;
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Frank
| up-to-date, honest and christian gen-
| tleman. Maybe we do not agree |
Martz Coach Co., Inc.
| with all of his policies in regard to|% aw
| school affairs, but he is one who can |
' be reasoned with and if convinced, is] Nt
| big enough to change his mind.
| Not a Burgess Candidate
During the past week, Charles
Cooke, our congenial squire, let it be
known that he would not consider
placing his name before the voters
for the office of burgess. Mr. Cooke
feels that he has to give practically
all of his time to his business. How-
ever, while not saying whether or not
he would be a candidate for the office
of justice of the peace, we feel that
at the proper time he will aspire for
justice.
note present.
The Fine Weather
The fine weather of the middle part
of the week has made your column
writer lazy and if this column does
not come up to expectations this
week, blame it on the weather.
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OFFICE
DOG
Last week the Office Dog was so
gloated with food that he fell plumb
asleep and didn’t wake up until the
When he |
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General Electric Refrigerator
Spring Display
All models attractively shown.
Delicious frozen desserts served.
Novelty General Electric favors distributed.
ALL DAY TODAY
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ficer Manning of the S. S. America. | ji
Those who have flatly refused to en-| iat
dorse “Luckies” when big sums of]
money were offered them are:
Charles Lindbergh, Gene Tunny, Bil
Roper,
coach.
timonials that poison the air every
Saturday night when the Lucky
Strike dance orchestra furnishes the
medium for reaching millions ~ of
young men, women and children.
The Tunkhannock New Age and
will endorse these friendly get-to-| Republican says this week:
gether affairs of the Athletic Asso-
ciation and appoint one with ‘author-
ity to supervise such affairs.
The writer feels that these dances,
while not approved of by many people
of the town, will provide a clean, so-
cial and friendly entertainment where
our young folks will be together to
enjoy themselves, rather there than
drive to the highways and by-ways
for recreation. We were young once,
let the young enjoy themselves.
—A Constant Reader.
Uncle Eben
“De trouble dat you makes foh
yvohself,” said Uncle Eben, “usually
zives vou de privilege of braggin’ dat
vou did a purty good job.”—Washing-
ton Siar.
No Doubt
Banks are now equipped with many
devices to trap robbers, all of which
the cashier can work when permitted
to lower his hands.—Rochester Times-
Union.
Varieties of “Sardines”
Sardines from southern Europe are
young pilchards; the Norwegian sar-
dines are sprats and herrings, while
off the coast of the United States and
Canada both pilchards and ‘herrings
are turned into “sardines.”
| ments made in Tunkhannock within
“There have been more improve-
| the past fifteen years than in sixty
| years previous to that time. Streets
| have been paved or macadamized,
new business places built, old ones re-
modeled and modernized, pretty bun-
galows erected and other things done.
|Tt is somewhat more than fifteen
years since the introduction of elec-
tric lights and telephone service, but
these afford better service and are
more extensively patronized. But we
still have the railway station built in
| 1869.” .
The borough council of Tunkhan-
| nock recently refused to close a dan-|
high: Valley Railroad could construct
a modern new station.
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Cell’s Long Vitality
Tiny life cells, which have lain dor
mant for possibly 200,000,000 years.
have been revived by Dr. C. B. Lip
man of the University of California
—Popular Mechanies Magazine.
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First American Theaters
The first permanent theater in
America was built on South street,
Philadelphia, in 1768. The following
year New York’s first permanent the
ater was opened on John street.
great Princeton coach and |}
Knute Rockne, famous Notre .Dame | EB
The advertisement asked all | Es
radio listeners to write their con- |g
gressmen denouncing the use of the | 8
air for the spreading of tainted tes-| gm
gerous grade crossing so that the Le-|
Moline Dise,”Drill
Van Brunt Grain Drill
Moline Tractor Plow
No Moline Two-Row Corn Planter with
Fertilizer Attachment 89.50
Ohio Corn and Bean Planter with
Fertilizer Attachment 39.00
Moline Disque Harrow 47.50
Eureka Potato Planter
Attachment
Moline Riding Cultivator, 8 Shovels 65.00
with Fertilizer
Leroy Marker, 3 Row 18.50
8-F't. Pulverizer and Mulcher .....___... 85.00
Moline Large 2-Horse Plow, complete
with Wheel and Joiner ...___.._.____ 23.00
Wiard 1-Horse Plow, complete with
Clevis and Wheel 16.00
Wiard No. 43 Iron Beam Plow with
Wheel and Joiner 26.50
Oliver No. E Wood Beam 2-Horse
Plow, with Wheel Joiner and
¢ Clevis
Leroy 2-Horse Plow Iron Beam,
complete with Wheel and Joiner 29.00
No. 151 Garden Wheelbarrow 7.75
No. 152 Garden Wheelbarrow ......__ 8.00
Barber Wire, 4 Point, Eighty Rod
| Spopli is aati Ly -4.90
6-Ft. Poultry Netting, 2 In. Mesh.
Galvanized after weaving .._._...... 8.67
—Also—
—And—
SUPERIOR GRAIN DRILLS
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Are Some Real Bargains
lachinery
NO FARMER WHO NEEDS NEW IMPLIMENT'S
SHOULD HANDICAP HIMSELF BY GOING
WITHOUT THEM WHEN THEY ARE
Regular Price Sale Price
146.00
BLACK HAWK MANURE SPREADER
DALLAS HARDWARE & SUPPLY G0.
$109.00
95.00
70.20
63.00
25.00
30.00
100.00
48.00
12.00
70.35
15.50
13.50
21.00
27.50
23.00
6.00
6.25
4.40
7.50
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