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Established 1889
Bo Published by
THE DALLAS POST, INC.
Publication Office
Avenue, Dallas, Pennsylvania
; Lehinan
TA McHenry ....... "....President
G. Harold Wagner.......... Secretary’
H. W. Risley..Mng. Editor and Treas.
An independent newspaper devoted
to the great suburban and agricultural
district of the Greater West Side,
comprising Dallas and twenty-seven
surrounding communities.
Subscription, $1.00 Per Year
(Payable in Advance)
LETTING OFF STEAM
"Every human being has a right to
say what he thinks, and so long as in
“saying it he ‘does not directly incite
others to crime or offend public de-
_cency, nobody has a right to stop him
~ from speaking his mind.
~ That is the sum and substance of
our Constitutional guarantee of free-
dom of speech. There is hardly a
~ person living who does not at times
yearn for the opportunity to “let off
steam” by expressing his opinion of
the way the world is run, and of some
of the people who have a hand in run-
ning it.
A good many people are fanatics
on the subject of speaking their mind.
They love to attract attention to them-
selves, and to abuse those in authority.
‘When officials try to suppress them,
these vociferous ones are happy. It
proves that the world is all wrong.
They immediately become, in their
own minds and the minds of others
like them, martyrs to the cause of
_ free speech.
There is only one intelligent way to
handle such people. That is to let
them talk, preserve order in the crowd
that is listening to them and pay no
attention to what they say. And that
is the way in which the Communist
~ demonstrations early in March were
~ handled in most American cities and
elsewhere in the world.
That didn’t suit the Communists.
There is no glory in being allowed to
talk. What they want is to be pre-
~ vented from talking. That gives them
a high degree of satisfaction and gives
color to their claim that free speech is
not allowed in this country. So when
they found, in New York, Chicago and
elsewhere, that they were not going to
be interfered with, they began to
throw things at the police in an effort
to provoke retaliation to which they
could point as evidence of oppression. |
Talking hurts nobody unless the ef-|
fort is made to suppress it.
dynamite, these agitators are dan-
‘gerous only when confined. Give,
them a chance to let off steam by
talking their heads off, if they want
to, and the rest of the world will go
about its business without bothering]
with them. Try to squelch them and|
a good many honest but stupid people |
will begin to wonder whether after all
there isn’t something in their claim |
that they are being persecuted. And]
that is the impression they are trying
to convey.
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WE NEED SHADE TREES
The Yard and Garden contest
which is being sponsored by the Mt. |
Grecnwood Kiwanis Club is a siep for-|
ward in the right direction. ‘ihere!
are many lovely homes in this vicinity; |
many of hem surrounded with beau-
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tifal gcunds and gardens. Lhere|
would be vistly improved if more at-
tention were given to the planting of
shrubs, trees and flowers. The simpler
ance, the more easily it is transformed |
into a place of beauty by careful
plantings of flowers and shrubs. The
simple o'd Colonial "homes of New|
Englan- give a striking illusiration of
how trees and gardens cen transform
old homes into beauty spots. Not only
do beutiful surroundings increase!
aesthetic values but for the practical]
minded they also increase the mone-
tary value of property. One of the
greatest needs of this entire section is
the planting of shade trees.
Our hillsides are barren and few in-
deed are the homes surrounded by
beautiful old trees. In its campaign
to stir interest in the beautifying of
grounds about individual homes, the
“Mt. Greenwood Kiwanis Club should
also sponsor a project to have young
shade trees planted along our high-
ways and streets. Tunkhannock, Wyo-
ming county, and Montrose, Susque-
‘hanna county, are working examples
of what beautiful shade trees can do
for communities. Recently the State
Highway Department has ‘entered a
program of shade tree planting along
“ the State highways. For miles along
the highway outside of Bloomsburg
in Columbia county and Wyalusing in
Bradford county, highway departmc
men have planted young shade trees:
The State Department of Forestry
will furnish trees free of charge to
communities wishing to beautify
their streets. All that is needed is
some community organization to lead
in this work. Mt. Greenwood Kiwanis
Club has taken the step and will re-
ceive the united support of the com-
munity. /
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are many other attractive homes that |
by Arthur Brisbane
In A. D. 1,001,930
How May Churches Advertise ?
A Small Big Item.
Ants Are Foolish—and Men.
NE item of news will be remem-
bered a million, and ten million
years hence. :
‘Nothing else in our age will be of
the slightest consequence, even 100,
000 years from now.
The news that will outlast recollec-
tion of this age of industrial and finan-
cial barbarism, is the discovery of
another planet in our solar family,
sailing around outside the orbit o
Neptune. rs
Earth dwellers in the year one mil-
lion nineteen hundred and thirty, as
they converse in the area thirty miles
above the earth, will wonder how such
primitive beings as ourselves could
have discovered that planet.
Similarly we wonder how primitive
cave dwellers could have made those
interesting pictures of rhinoceroses,
and horses. i
Going through Colorado, New Mex-
ico, Arizona, and on to the Pacific, for
the hundredth time, is as interesting
as on the first journey. ‘You feel that
you are in a big country.
Dante tried to describe heaven, but
couldn’t. In fact, his description is
rather dull and doesn’t compare with
his description of hell. It is impossible
to describe this Western country. . The
sky is: different from other skies, as
the ceiling of St. Peter's dome, in
Rome, is different from the ceiling of
a bungalow. ; \
One hundred clergymen, Dr. Reisner
presiding, invited this writer to dis-
cuss, “How can church advertising be
made successful?” and “How can
church publications be made interest-
ing?”
The important questions are passed
on to editors and advertising men.
The clergyman’s task in advertising,
publishing and preaching is difficult |
and ungrateful.
He offers the people what is good
for them in competition with those
that offer what they like, whether
good for them or not.
In old days families walked long
distances on muddy roads, losing their
rubbers, on the way to the ccuntry
meeting house.
Now good roads and automobiles
bring neighbors close together. Tele-
phones unite them, moving pictures
invite them, radio brings dance music,
songs, plays, operas, even prayer,
‘To advertise churches successfully
|1s not easy.
Henry Ward Beecher had a good
idea when he sold a good looking
mulatto slave girl at auction in his
Brooklyn church. That would draw
crowds even now.
Old Puritans preached on hell, mak-
ing it so real, that every man shud-
dered, and would not have gone to a
n s—ie, even had it been available.
Modernism has weakened faith and
fear.
It should, howevcr, be possible to
interest even the modern mind on
what is to come, after the coffin lid is
fastened down, and the family goes
about its business, leaving you there.
Scmething is going to ‘happen, or
nothing. Everybody admits that.
If nothing is going to happen, then
nothing amounts to anything here,
znd we are all the victims of a cosmie
joke.
If something is going to happen,
oven the dallest ‘jazz mind should
vont to know what it is.
The clergyman might attract atten
*‘n by advertising “come to my
church, and learn what will happen to
you when your jazz days are over.”
This small item of news interests
cnacers and stockholders of railroad
and steamship lines:
An. airplane, driven by Diesel en-
cine, flew from Detroit to Miami in
10 hours, 15 minutes without stopping.
with Chief Engineer Willson of the
Paclard company and Walter Lees.
pilot.
And the ‘trip cost for fuel eight dol-
lars and fifty cents.
When such flying is done on a big
scale, airships, with power enough to
defy all storms, will be able to take
passengers from the Atlantic to the
Pacific for five dollars each.
You will be able to travel three
thousand miles for less than it costs
to send your voice on the telephone
wire today.
Dr. Ditmars, who studies animals
from elephant and whale to ant and
microbe, will broadcast, by greatly
magnifying sound, noises made by
an$s in their colonies, working, cele-
brating, etc.
Strange is insect life. Among katy-
dids there are twenty males for every
female. This will interest women, for
the katydid is one of the noisiest of
insects. The males make all that
racket.
“Ants,” says Dr. Ditmars, ‘‘some-
times make fools of themselves.”
Tiny mites and blind little defence-
less beetles pat the ants with their
feet and then the ants pat them.
Not so different from human beings
that have money. Sycophants flatter
them, “pat them” with compliments,
then they feed the sycophants, and
sometimes let them marry their
daughters.
| The Corner
Heard Around
The Independent Scribe
We get a great kick out of reading
the Dallas column of the Sunday In-
dependent each -veek. The Dallas
scribe is certainly getting under the
hide of certain politicians and we
must say that he “tempers justice with
mercy,” for if he otarted to “open up”
on a number of persons connected
with police work, 1t would fill a book.
The writer is having his fun without
doing the families of the discussed
persons any real harm. We believe if
the persons referred to in last Sun-
day’s Independent were single, the
writer would go further and put them
in hot water.
© Of course, this trait of the writer
is admirable and we believe if condi-
tions become too mnnbearable he will
print facts and names. A word to thc
wise is, or should Le, sufficient.
The Independent writer has made
that paper popular in Dallas by keep-
ing the people interested its
columns.
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Supreme Court Candidels
With the announcement that Arthur
H. James, Lieutenant Governor, is a
candidate for Justice of the Supreme
Court, many of his friends locall have
now become immediately active in the
circulation of his petitions. The honor
accorded Mr. James by his being on
the “Brown-for-Governor and ‘“Davis-
for-Senator” ticiet will give him a
large vote in Pniladelphia and Pitts-
burgh together with other populated
sections of the State and he will sweeu
Luzerne county.
Taxpayers’ Association
The action of the Dallas Township
citizens in forming wa Taxpayers’ As-
sociation shows that they are up and
doing. This a.sociation, if run proj.-|
erly, can do a loi good for the citizens
of the township. |
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Contributors’
Column
“Though | may disagree heartily
with what you say, | will defend
with my life your right to say it.”
—Voltaire.
Noxen Public Schools
Editor The Post:
We think that the Noxen school
board has played the little boy act m,n
deceiving the taxpayers of Noxen
township in regard to the time of hir-
ing teachers for next year. We think
that the taxpayers should not be de-
liberately lied to in regard to the time
of this meeting for hiring teachers:
for by reason thereof many taxpayers
who desired to at this
were prevented from being present.
ke
should be a man who has interest
enough in our schools to visit them
once or twice a year at least; then he
is not teaching, and whom to hire and
but our present
type of school director, simply goes to
the board meetings when he has a
whom to discharge;
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The Post.
meeting |
‘We all think that a school director].
would know who is teaching and wno |
for supposed services. He does not pay
much tax; and he doés not care
whether there is school or not. We
might better have hired a six-year-
old; he would have gone oftener to sec
what the teachers were doing.
The taxpayers of Noxen township
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enough taxes
are paying to have
good teachers and a non-religious
school as provided by law. We do not
know whether 1t is a Protestant school
or not; and the way it is now going.
We scarcely whether we will
have any school, and whether we wiil
know
have good chapel services and Sunday
school or not, as this is also hard io
tell, but we do know that we have had
lots of trouble with the collar and
pencil man for school director.
We think the only way to do is to
elect taxpayers and farmers for the
further building up of our high school
(To be continued).
(Signed) A Heavy Taxpayer.
Although the above letter gets a bit
caustic at times, it is The Post’s policy
to publish all signed contributions
sent in. We know absolutely nothing
about the Noxen school situation and
have no comment to make. Our
columns open to all taxpayers
irregardless to their opinions on local
We will be glad to publish
contributions on both sides of any
question. The Post offers this oppor-
tunity to its readers and is the only
newspaper in Luzerne County which
opens its columns to all contributors
are
affairs.
and prints their contributions un-
edited.—Editor.
Missed Her Paper
Dear Editor:
For two weeks now I haven't re--
ceived my copy of the Dallas Post.
What is the matter with you,
way, that I don’t get the paper? This is
the first time since the = Post
newly organized that I have missed
the paper. Missing
have been an accident, but to miss it
was
it once might
two times in a row is too much and
hundred dollars or so coming to him |
| your
any- |
especially when its paid for. The date| where I can get more information on
on my paper says 12-20-28. That
means December 20, 1928, doesn’t it?-—
Mrs. J. D. S.
We're sorry, but rules are rules. The
circulation of the Dallas Post is
audited for the benefit of our adver
tisers who want to know what they
are getting when they buy space in
The auditors will not count
subscriptions one year in arrears. That
means that your subscriptions does
not help us to get advertising and also
means that your subscription does
we send you the paper. Your
scription is more than one year in ar-
and auto:
matically cut from list
when after repgated notice you did not
How do we
sub-
rears your name was
the mailing
renew your subscription.
know that you want the paper when
you don’t renew it—Editor.
Whe’s Who?
To Post Editor:
Will you kindly tell me who Will
Wimble is? And also who it is that
writes that “Heard Around the Cor-
ner” column in the paper? Sometimes
“Heard Around the Corner”
good but sometimes the writer fills it
up with a lot of “Smart Alec” stuff
that to me spoils all of the good
things he has written. Once I was
going to cancel my subscription but
the next issue around before I
could get up on the hill to see you.
That week he had a real good column
so I decided to let the paper come. i
is real
got
this important subject?—Mrs. H. A. B,,
Wilkes-Barre, Pa.
Although there is a national
preventing the use of ‘the mails fo
distribution of information on Birth
Control and also a law which throttles
your family physicians from giving it
to you, I am sure that you can get some
valuable pamphlets on the subject by
law
writing to The American Social
Hygiene Society, New York City.—
Editor.
To the Editor of the Dallas Post:
I want £0 express my appreciation
to the Post for the fine cooperation
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given in presenting the work of the
Yard and Garden.contest; also for the
statement made by ‘Will Wimble”
relative to the contest.
Rev. H. F. Henry.
Chairman of the Mt. Greenwood Ki-
wanis Club Yard and Garden Con-
test. :
See our editorial this week, which
was written before this letter arrived.
—Editor.
Uncle Eben
“Knowledge is valuable,” said Uncle
Eben, “but it ain’ so good when a man
knows a lot o’ things he doesn’t tell.”
—Washington Star.
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guess it all depends on who's being
written about whether “Heard Around
the Corner” is interesting or not.—An |
Old Subscriber.
Everybody knows the writer of the
Will Wimble news isn’t Will Wimble.
If you live in Shavertown he'll tell you
himself who he is. But I promised him
that I wouldn't divulge his name or |
Maybe Har-
who's
I'd be glad to tell you.
old won't like it if I tell you
writing the “Heard Around the Cor-
column.—Editor.
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Dallas Post:
You fellows certainly like to blow
own horn. talk
sometimes you'd think The Post was
as big as the New York Times and
more important.—Anonymous.
and more important to us,
brother, than the New York Times
will ever be. And by the way if you
don’t sign your
tributions we won’t publish any more
of your letters.
The way_ you
Bigger
name to your con-
Birth Control
Dear Editor:
It was with pleasure that I read
your editorial on ‘Birth Control” in
last week's issue of the Dallas Post.
Each week I find myself getting more
enjoyment out of the Dallas Post, for
I can usually count on finding some-
thing in the paper that has spunk and
life in it and speaks of the liberal at.
titude of its editor. More and more IX
to that although
you have only a country weekly news-
am coming believe
paper, you also have the only liberal
newspaper in Luzerne county.
indeed are the city papers that would
have run an editorial on so important
and tabooed a subject as birth control,
Since you seem to know what you are
talking about, will you kindly tell me
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