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DALLAS POST, DALLAS, PA,
SATURDAY, MAY 11, 1929
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Established 1891
An independent paper, of the people, devoted co the great farm-
ing section of Luzerre 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. :
~ Subscription $1.00 per year
Payable in advance
‘Address all Communications to
Te THE DALLAS POST
Lehman Avenue Phone Dallas 300
Dallas, Pa.
EDITORIAL COLUMN
Devoted to the Current Tepics of the Day
MOTHER’S DAY : os
‘Whether mother is far or near, do not forget her on this im-
‘portant occasion. A few kind words, a little, inexpensive gift,
mean more to mother than the grandest eloquence and the most
elaborate entertainments mean to anyone else. ]
Many a mother separated by distance from her children, pin-
ng for them, is made glad on this day by affectionate messages
and thoughful gifts. Others, fortunate enough to have their
children about them, beam with delight at their manifestations
of love on this day.
Of course every day should be Mother's Day—never for a
moment should her kindness and self-sacrifice be forgotten. Too
often, however, mothers are taken for granted, though experi-
nee has shown to mankind that the love of a mother is the only
really unselfish love that one is liable to meet in a lifetime.
i Those whose mothers have gone realize what a precious boon
‘has passed from their lives. They, too, may observe Mother’s
Day. If your mother has passed on, put a flower at her resting-
place -. surely she will know!
Ha oT Sey ER
ly A TEMPEST IN A TEA POT
It was a great French liberal, Voltaire, who first said,
“Though I may disagree heartily with what you say I will de-
fend with my life your right to say it.” The founders of the
American nation owed much to this philosophy and to the polit-
cal philosophy of the French school of thought. When the Con-
titution was framed the American leaders saw to it that there
hould always be free speech and a free press in the United
States. They had seen too much of the evils of repression exer-
cised by the British Crown. NT ;
5 Since the Eighteenth century and the establishment of Dem-
ocratic government, free speech and a free press have gone hand
hand with liberty-loving, enlightened nations. It is one of
America’s greatest traditions. Like many other advantages of
democratic form of government it is seldom appreciated and
requently abused, until today there are very few truly great
liberal newspapers in America. Outstanding, however, are The
‘Louis Post Dispatch and the papers of the Scripps-Howard
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"Too often the newspaper forgets its mission as a public in-
titution and focuses its attention upon the receipts of the adver-
‘tising department. Principals are frequently sacrificed to good
yusiness,” and papers cater to the whims of powerful factions and
nfluential advertisers who increase the paper’s revenues. On the
ther hand, free speech is frequently abused by the scandal
‘sheets, which catering to the morbid, smutty side of the reader S
imagination, profit with the largest circulations of any papers in
» | hooks attached to one end.
The pay of 2,000 employes of the
Lehigh Valley Railroad Company at
Sayre was ordered held up on Thurs-
day last. $1
A down-state woman wired the
First National Bank at that place not
to honor the pay of the 2,000 rail-
roaders employed there, because “I’ve
bought the railroad.”
Bank officials checked the telegram
and found that the woman who sent
it is demented.
A powerful submarine light te be
used for the discovery and recovery
of the bodies of drowned persons was
received this week by Luzerne Coun-
ty detectives. The light will be kept
at the office of the county detectives
to be used in all cases of water fatal-
ities. The mechanism resembles a
periscope with electric lamps and
It can
be successfully used in depths up to
sixty-two feet.
Milton J. Cross, famed radio an-
nouncer of Station WJZ, failed to
show up Tuesday night when he was
supposed to speak in Hazleton High
School auditorium. Twelve hundred
residents of Hazleton and vicinity
waited late and waited in vain. Dis-
appointed, disturbed, the arrangement
committee telephoned WJZ in New
York City. Mr. Cross, sorry, said
that he had been sitting in his home
when he should have been lecturing
and that he had actually forgotten
all about his engagement in Hazle-
ton. Anxious to make amends, he
sent a special message to Hazleton
admirers on Wednesday night during
WJZ’s “Old Man Sunshine Hours.”
| Monday night he will speak in the
Hazleton High School with no charge
in order to atone for forgetting a
date. Recently Mr. Cross remem-
bered a date and delighted a Mon-
fron redierce /
_ Little Jack Little, famous radio ar-
tist of WLW made a decided hit eo
ios packed houses early this week
uring his appearance at Poli’ -
atre in Wil ar Sire The
Prof. O. H. Bakeless, for thirty
years a member of the faculty of
Bloomsburg Teachers’ College, will
retire at the end of the term in June.
Known and loved by thousands of
students «+ and former students
throughout Pennsylvania, he has been
affectionately called the grand old
man of Bloomsburg. Prof. Bakeless
first became a teacher at Bloomsburg
in 1890. In 1893 he left the school
to become head of the old Carlisle
Indian school. In 1902 he returned
to Bloomsburg and has been teaching
there ever. since.
_ When Mrs. George Berry, who re-
sides near the west branch of Me-
shoppen Creek, between Vose and
Craig Hill heard her chickens making
a fuss shortly after noon on Sunday,
she went out of doors to see what
caused the commotion. What was
her susprise to see a big balloon
sailing along just above the tree
tops. »
A man in the balloon, seeing Mrs.
Berry, called out to know what State
and county that was. Mrs. Berry
gave him the information and he
thanked her and sailed away. He
was traveling in a northeasterly di-
rection.
The aeronaut was, without doubt,
one of the entrants in the national
elimination baloon race which was
held to decide who should represent
1 tion. ;
foe BE ntly the editor who attempts to follow a straight
by keeping his prejudices out of the news and editorial col-
lr er. lh down to defeat. He may ‘have high
‘ideals but the majority defeats him. He may stand for
est kind of politics; he can try to keep an open mind; those v 10
should defend him cause his downfall. Such was the case wien
gunmen, hired by police officers, deliberately murdered Don Mel-
Jett, fearless editor of the Canton Daily News, who by Soned
articles in his paper had pointed out corruption in the police e-|
partment of his home city
For a number of weeks The Dallas Post has been carrying
olumn. wh
d by editorial pencil.
t contrary > the editorial beliefs of the paper, but the ar-
icles have gone through unaltered. . Who is to judge whether or |
ot such articles are to be run? Certainly not the man who has |
a strong conviction on the subject at hand. Minorities are fre-
quently right. / oh
The editor of The Post assumes that the reader is intelligent, |
‘that he can judge for himself; that he wants to know both sides |
of an argument before drawing conclusions. The editor who |
‘gets himself up as a judge of what goes in the Contributors Col- |
umn or what stays out takes a lot for granted. In everyday life |
there are a great many things which we all must decide for our-
‘selves. Things which could be better handled and decided by
someone else—BUT MOST OF US LIKE TO THINK FOR OUR-
SELVES even if we are sometimes wrong. The severest critic-
ism of The Post and its editorial policies, if received, will be run
unaltered in the Contributors Column. All that is necessary 18
‘that it be written in good faith. And the Contributors Column
‘will exist as long as The Dallas Post remains under the present
editor. There are some ideals we intend to keep—this is one
of them:
~ “Though I may disagree heartily with what you say I will
defend with my life your right to say it
Must Go on Record
By the copyright act of 1842, a copy
of “every volume, pamphlet, sheet of
letterpress, sheet of music, map, chart,
or plan separately published” in the
United Kingdom must be deposited
with the British museum and, if de-
mand is made, copies must also be
presented to the Bodleian library and
the libaries of Cambridge, Edinburgh
and Dublin.
WHO'S WHO IN L. T. H. S.
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Lois G. Sorber, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. F. W. Sorber was born in Rug-
gles in the year 1909.
Lois’ school career began at the
Rock school where she mastered the
first seven grades. Laketon was
chosen as her mext Alma Mater and
here she has attended faithfully, suc-
essfully overcoming all the obstacles
common to early school training.
Varied school activities have at-
tracted Lois. She is a member of
the Athletic Association and the De-
bating Club, secretary of her class
ond takes a prominent part in all
class functions. :
Lois has been endowed with a
‘harming personality which has won
countless friends. No one can
but agree that our secretary has
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Evil Passing for Good
Evil is easy, and its forms are in-
infinite; good is almost unique. But
to find as what is called good; and
often on this account this particular
kind of evil gets passed off as good.
There is needed an extraordinary
greatness of soul to attain to it as
as to good.—Pascal, 5%
the clean- |
he words of Voltaire underneath the heading of its Contributors |
It has printed here the opinions of its readers unalter- |
Often the communications have been en-|
a certain kind of evil is as difficult |
| the United States in the international
| race to be held later. Twelve bal-
| loons left Pittsburgh on Saturday.
| Nine were down in different parts of
{ Pennsylvania and New York on Sun-
| day and three were still in the air or
| unreported Monday morning.
Tunkhannock New Age.
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AROUND THE
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Orchestras and Orchestras
. The past week Dallas branched out
in the jaz music line, the old Dallas
Orchestra disbanding with Frank Tro-
pea, of the Dallas Hardware Com-
pany and Ross Lewin, of Fernbrook,
each organizing their own orchestras.
We assume they- will be called the
Dallas Orchestra and Fernbrook Or-
chestra, respectfully. 4
The Dallas boys practised last
Monday night at Higgin’s College Inn
and very fine comments were heard
on their playing.
The Fernbrook boys played at Hig-
gin’s Tuesday night. A goodly
| crowd heard them. Good natured
| rivalry is now shown between the
boys and the various community or-
ganizations planning dances in the
future can have their choice of eith-
er one of the two groups.
Help the Base Ball Team
The local boys of the Dallas base
ball team are sending out letters ask-
| ing for small contributions to be used
for defraying the
team this year.
Due to the action of the Dallas
Township school directors in denying
| the local team the use of the high
school grounds, it is necessary for the
Dallas team to play its schedule away
from home.
A dollar or so will go along way
to keep base ball here and possibly
in a short time a field will be secured
where home games can be played.
Several Dances Planned
Within the next few weeks several
dances will be held for the benefit of
various community organizations,
School Directors Space and Machell
are both in favor of allowing the use
of the high school auditorium for
these affairs if they are properly su-
pervised and it is felt that the rest
expenses of the
‘idea. The “school board should be
commended for its action.
for community gatherings. We a
sure that the various organizati
i he board
of the directors will also sanction the|
its a The high
school auditorium is an ideal place| They old me of a famous man, who
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The Joy of Being An Editor
Getting out this paper is no picnic,
If Cr jokes people say we are
silly;
ous,
If we clip things from other papers
We are too lazy to write them our-
serves,
If we don’t we are stuck on our own
If we stick close to the job all day,
We ought to be out huntin’ up news,
If we go out and try to hustle,
We ought to be on the job in the
office,
If we don’t print contributions,
We don’t appreciate true genius;
And if we do print them, the paper
is filled with junk. .
If we make a change in the other fel-
low’s writeup, we are too critical,
If we don’t we are asleep,
Now like as not some guy will say,
We swiped this from some magazine
or paper—WE DID.
Thanks to Cincinnati, Ohio, and
The Montrose Independent.
“Famous Men”
In many years of travel, throughout
the wide, wide land
I’ve met many a famous characters,
and shook them by the hand
I had to travel to a little town, not
so far by rail
To get the info needed, to compose
this little tale.
Famous men, I' call the tale, for of
such I shall write
And leave it to your tender thoughts,
if my story is a blight.
I motored into a quiet town, in order
to get some gas ;
And noticed on a sign post, the name
: of the town DALLAS.
‘1 stopped into a hardware store, and
just to pass the time
attemp to rhyme.
| reposes in this town
Who knows no sense of shirking, and
upon no duty fro
If we don’t they say we are too seri-
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| With a set of whiskers, he would not
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- | They told me of Napoleon, Mussolini} When taking the family out for a
0 F F I C E i and the Russian Dowager ride, to watch a cow chew her cud
{| But none of them are to be compared, | Don’t be so darned good natured, and
D 0 G | with this Harold Wagner. get stuck in the mud.
{ J. H. L., Philadelphia.
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When your rich relations travel west,
and upon life turn their backs | CENTREMORELAND FOLK
You will find him there at the finish, WELCOME NEW PASTOR—
to look out for the inheritance W. D. GAY EXPANDS STORE
tax FR %
In politics, you'll find him, too, just The new M. E. ns Rev. Mun-
like Mr. Hoover, strict 5 ; ;
Of: course. yiot. 50 ’ prominent, just | Yon and wife are settled in the par-
5 : At sonage and last Tuesday evening the
chairman of the Sixth District. different charges, Dein, tar
ae ; jDymong Hollow and Centremoreland,
When visitors arrive at Dallas town, | gave him a rousing reception in the
he will act as host | M. E. church parlors at this place.
For he is also an official of The Dal-| There were about two hundred pres-
las Post. | ent. Ice cream, cake and coffee were
If misery strikes, you are broke, and | served and everyone seemed to enjoy
would avoid the consequence Po evening very much.
Just tell pop, he’ll fix you up, with victor Keithline and Jason Hard-
some life insurance. ing have gone to Pittsburgh to work
as linemen for one of A. J. Sordoni’s
Want some pleasure; like the scen-| telephone gangs.
ory, 2 touring you would go : The cold wet weather has greatly
That's easy, sir, just tell pop, he'll| retarded the growth of every thing
sell you an auto. ; in this vicinity. It is feared that
If pnd are. low, Just 30, and S0, just | the fruit crop will be a failure.
orrow from your lodge , :
ATT RDI do Beall vou a) at JE Si desp sosyew ve aceon
nice Dodge. | the death of Robert Harris on Tues-
| day of last a, Robbie, 2s Be
| was always calle
If money you have plenty, and for | years of . ed aa Mr,
fine things you are set | and Mrs. Lance Harris. He was a
Tell him, its real easy, a Packard you remarkably bright and lovable little
will get fellow and will be greatly missed by
If you are broke and hungry, or have| the whole community. The funeral
a starving wife was held Thursday afternoon. In-
Tell your tale to Harold, and yowll|terment was at Mehoopany.
lead a better life. Mrs. George Montross and son, Er-
nest, are both quite ill at this writing.
Miss Gertrude Dickinson and friend
of Bethlehem, spent the week-end
with her parents in this place.
The schools will close this week
with an entertainment in the Grange
Hall Thursday evening.
W. D. Gay is building an addition
on his store.
He’ll see you fed up plenty, with good
wholesome grub
For he is also President, of the fam-
ous Rotary Club.
Now, kind reader, do you agree with
me, that this man of fame
Should be envied for his ambition,
and his famous name
One thing more, he should have been,
I see no reason why
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If you want to make home-made
paste add about a teaspoonful of pow-
dered alum to tne flour and boiling
water. The paste will have 8 much
greater “sticking” quality and will
last twice as well.
make a good Rabbi.
And as I go on through the town, to
travel on my way
T’d like to give a bit of advance, to
Pop, for another day.
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