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LANTES—YESTERDAY AND
4 NOW
n the early days of San Francisco
en the great gold rush to California
‘began in 1849 was in full
the makeshift government
nery broke down so completely
the town was at the mercy of the
>ks, murderers and bandits. The
tizens took the law into their own
. They organized a super-
a Vigilance Committee,
called by its Spanish
“Vigilantes,” and cleaned
town. They had io hang a
many and shoot a goou many be-
they finished the job, but they
ned up the town and turned its
ernment over to honest men who
ould pe relied upon 1:0 administer
stice adequately.
most of the large cities of the
ited States today and nm many
er communities conditions exist
espect of crime ax 1 maladministra-
which make thoughtful citizens at
, wonder whether » revival of thet
] Vigiantes 1s not called for. When-
a known criminal is turned loose
a complaisant judge, when men
d to police a community fail to
press crime which is blatant and
ily discoverable, when men In-
usted to public funds squander and
cal them, the remedy of the ballot
x does not always seem adequate.
There is another remedy, however,
‘and one which does not savor of iynch |
Jaw nor contravene the right of every
son, criminal or otherwise, to his
lay in court. That remedy is pub-
city. :
It takes courage to tell the truth
out local crime and criminals. It
s a heavy burden upon any one
to carry the risks which surround
Jever tries to check lawlessness, for
e is dealing with men who are nol
erned by the rules to which the re-
mer must adhere. But every now
“then some newspaper man per-
ns that sort of public service.
metimes he loses his life, as Don
elicit did in Canton, Ohio. But the
me of Don Mellett, newspaper man,
Il stand forever in the annals of his
as that of the man who freed is
izens from criminal misrule. _Can-
on is building a monument to its
iberator. In the fraternity of jour-
Jalism Don Mellett’s memory will live
r all time As a martyr to the: spirit
public service, which actuates every
onest member of the craft.
More recently the newspapers of
anton, Pa., exposed a conspiracy
ong gamblers and public officials
ind several “prominent citizens” ©
ranton are under indictment in con-
quence. The New York Evening
lournal’s disclosure of’ vice and graft
Atlantic City is another example.
Columns could be filled with instances
vhere newspapers, often | fighting
alone, have saved their communities
rom the clutches of organized crime
id corrupt officials working in part-
ship with the criminals.
. _—o0
‘HE PRESIDENT AND THE LAWS
There are times
when honest people can honestly dis-
dent of the United State.
ism therefor.
‘honest folk and criminals.
hs
easons.
ven the Constitution itself.
unity.
and occasions
agree about the policies of the Presi-
They may
agree on personal or political
ounds, and express their opinions
eely without being subject to criti-
On one point, at least, of President
“Hoover's policies, it is difficult to see
ow honest people can disagree. On
the question of law enforcement the
nly possible disagreement is between
Honest men may dislike any par-
ticular law, for any number of honest
It is mot only their right in
‘such a case to agitate for its amend-
‘ment or repeal, it is their duty. There
is nothing inconsistent with honesty
nd good citizenship in taking part in
ny lawful effort to change the laws,
But so long as any law is a law, the
ffort of the Executive to enforce it
to the utmost of human and adminis-
rative efficiency calls for the support
f everyone who regards himself as a
ood citizen, or who wishes to be so
rded by his neizhbors and his
If each of us'is to select
Jaws he will obey and vehich he
jolate, the foundations of our
Heard Around
~ The Corner
IS SPRING HERE: x
‘While this is the month of April
and Spring is not only around the
corner, but is supposed to be here and
in full bloom, the snow squalls of
Monday night and Tuesday made. it
look more like winter. In this section
we can’t count on good weather until
at least May 1st, and a good number
of people won't even think about a
garden until the fifteenth or twentie:}
of May. /
EASTER EGG HUNT
With Easter only a Week away,
the kiddies are looking forward to the
Faster egg hunt to be conducted once
las Rotary Club. Since the abandon-
ing of the annual egg hunt in Wilkes
Barre, this hunt of the Dallas Club is
becoming more popular each year, and
several thousands of eggs will be dis-
tributed for the youngsters.
If you would cadre to donate any
candy or chocolate eggs, send them to
Earl Monk, chairman of the commit-
tee, at Shavertown, or if you do not
have any means of sending them, a
call to Earl will bring some one to
your door.
CONSTRUCTING DRAIN
John XL. Sullivan is aigging a
trench across his property in the rear
of Main street, with the purpose of
placing a water drain through to the
creek. John was refused permission to
construct this drain at the last meet-
ing of council but something must
have changed, for John is going ahead
with it (that is as late as Wednesday
afternoon). ¥
SOME SALESMAN
Jim Oliver seems to have struck his
ystride with the improvement in busi-
During the past ten days
and two
This fine spurt on Jim's
part received special notice from the
this Spring.
Jim sold four Dodge cars
Packards.
company.
Contributors’
Column
THANK YOU!
Editor The Post: *
many improvements
news you are now giving
for two years.
on March 4th.
Wishing you every success, I am,
Sincerely,
‘W. M. MAJOR.
Lehman, Pa.
boys of the fire company will appre
ciate it, too.—Editor.
Editor The Post:
I notice that you are no longer
printing the advertising of a local bus
company. The bus schedule was for a
long time a regular feature of _your
paper and I notice that this same
company still advertises in other
newspapers. I'm wondering if your
talk on newspapers sometime ago be-
foer the Brotherhood of St. Paul's
Lutheran church at Shavertown might
fe had something to do with the
withdrawal of this advertising. You
will remember that you referred to the
power the advertiser holds over the
newspaper and as a specific example
vou cited the absence of news items
in Wilkes-Barre papers giving details
of accidents in which this company’s
bus, like all bus lines, sometimes fea-
busses, like all bus lines, sometimes fea-
because it was illuminating and
pointed out that newspapers are pri-
vate institutions, run by humans sub-
ject to human weaknesses as well as
qualities, and that newspapers are not
public institutions as I had so fre-
quently assumed “when I criticised
them.
ONE WHO WAS THERE.
I do not think that anything I may
have said in that talk caused the
company you refer to to withdraw its
advertising. Although the point you
bring up is interesting to ponder over.
—Editor.
President Hoover has asked Con-
gress to put better tools into his hands
for the enforcement of the Federal
laws. The procedure in the Federal
Courts today necessitates long delays
and inadeuate attention to the ma-
jority of criminal cases. The Com-
mission of Law Enforcement, com-
posed. of many of the ablest men in
the nation, has recommended many
changes in the laws governing the
Federal courts. The legislation neces-
sary to effect those changes should
not be made the basis of partisan
quarrel in Congress. The issue in this
instance is not between political points
again under the auspices: of the Dal-|
I want to compliment you on the
in the. general
in your
paper. Enclosed you will find renewal
I would also like to thank my friends
in Dallas and especially the Dallas
fire company for its good assistance at
the time of the burning of our home
That's nice of your, Mr. Major. We
appreciate it and we know that the
by Arthur Brisbane
Mexico's Great Future.
No Mother Love, No Nation.
Married at Two Years of Age.
To Grow Less Wheat.
ECENT visits to Mexico convince
this writer that to help in build-
ing Mexico's prosperity would be one
way to build up United States pros-
perity. The Mexicans possess an em-
pire of unsurpassed beauty, fertility,
mineral and other wealth. The |
Mexican people are hard, patient and
skillful workers, and hundreds of
thousands of Mexicans could, and
gladly would, learn mechanical skilled
trades, well paid. :
Some of the billions that our
bankers lend so cheerfully to Europe,
not always to get them back, could
be lent to greater advantage and more
safely, to Mexico. To help in building
a greater and wealthier Mexico would
be to’ create new and rich markets
for the United States.
Every new, good road in Mexico
would mean many American automo-
biles sold. Every Mexican, helped by
credit to attain prosperity, would
mean a new customer for American-
made goods, pending the building up
of all industries in Mexico.
This is the continent that interests
us. And the nations that should have
cur sincere and generous co-operation
are our nearest neighbors, Canada on
the morth, Mexico on the south. To
build, north and south, with the aid
of our unlimited wealth, the honor and
deserved friendship of these two coun-
tries would be to make this North
American continent forever invulner-
able to attack. -
There would be a triple alliance
worth while—Canada, the. United
States and Mexico. Neighbors, friends,
allies, respecting the rights, and con-
tributing to the prosperity of the
other two. :
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Russia, forgetting Spartans’ history,
plans a human society made to order,
Children, taken from their mothers in
habyhood, will be raised wholesale by
the State. Mothers will enter fac-
tories, and otherwise work the same
as men do or, rather, as mares do on
the farm.
Russia should remember that when
a mare is valuable, and a fine horse
is wanted, the mare is not put to work
before the colt is born or afterward.
Sparta educated its youth. Trained
young men to surprise and murder
the miserable helots, slaves, on their
way to work at sunrise, that the
young men might be fierce in war.
Fine theories were worked out there
as in Russia, but Sparta amounted te
‘little. Athens, where human nature
was allowed to, develop according to
rules—not suggested by Draco or
Karl Marx—produced Greek grandeur,
art, literature and philosophy.
We are wound up at birth, to run in
a certain way, our inborn impulses are
our main springs, and we cannot re-
make ourselves. To interfere with
the family, with the mother’s passion-
ate love of her children, with man’s
ambition, stimulated by duty to his
at once to crumble.
ratic system of government be-
of view but between honest citizens
and criminals. !
family, and reverence for his father
and mother, is to insure a nation’s
downfall.
Throughout India, recently, thous-
ands of little girls, from two to ten
years of age, have been hurriedly
married, a majority of them to full
grown men, in time to escape pro-
‘visions of a child-marriage law just
promulgated throughout all British-
India. The law does not apply to
territories of native princes, gentle-
men, that submit to British overlord-
ship, draw their great revenues, and
may do with little girls and others as
they please.
No girl under fourteen, no boy
under eighteen may be legally mar-
ried in British-India, and there is
deep resentment on religious grounds.
The Hindu believes that a horrible
destiny awaits the female child dying
unmarried, even through no fault of
her own. In a recent “marriage,” the
Hindu bride was two years old, the
groom an adult. We are shocked at
that, but very recently, good Presby-
terians here and elsewhere, taught
that an infant dying without baptism,
through no fault of its own, was
damned eternally. What's the differ-
ence? 4
The Government asks farmers, for
their own price protection, to reduce
by two million acres Spring wheat
planting in Minnesota and the Dako-
tas. Substitution of barley, rye, oats,
alfalfa, sweet clover is suggested.
hat might help, if other States re-
duced acreage. But it is as difficult
for farmers as for others to change
their habits. \
The price of wheat for the world is
made abroad, where our surplus is
bought. That will continue, in spite of
well-meant Government efforts to cre-
ate an artificial price. If our farmers
plant less wheat other countries will
plant more. Relieving the farmer is
no simple problem. It could be done
by organizing wheat production as we
have organized automobile production,
making it hopeless for foreigners to
compete. : 3
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Last week The Post published a
signed article by the noted national |
writer, Frank Parker Stockbridge. The
article was based upon a recent inter- |
view which Mr, Stockbridge had with
President Herbert Hoover at Wash-
ington. This week The Post publishes
another article by this same famotis
writer on ‘Prohibition Up To Now.”
With the publication of these articles,
and the three others which are to fol-
low. The Post takes a step away from
its old policy of publishing only local
news by local writers, although for
some time we have been running a
column called “Every Week,” by Ar-
‘thur Brisbane, highest paid editorial
writer in America. We believe that
it is within the sphere of the weekly
paper to publish articles by such
noted writers and that our readers will
appreciate the effort and cost involved
in securing them. These articles are
written exclusively for a selected
group of community papers and The
ost is proud that it has been granted
exclusive franchise for the publication
of the writings of these men in this
community. We would like to hear
from our readers and have them tell
us whether they think we should use
articles by national writers or whether
we should concentrate more closely
upon local happenings.
THE WEEK'S
DOINGS
The Dushore Silk Manufacturing
Company has sarted work on its new
building to take the place of that por-
tion of the plant which was destroyed
a few weeks ago in a severe wind-
storm. The work will be pushed
rapidly and before long the looms will
again be humming. Dushore Cham-
ber of Commerce is assisting the com-
pany to sell a limited amount of pre-
ferred stock.
Ten thousand pine trees are being
planted on the James W. Piatt estate
at Evans’ Falls under the supervision
of District Attorney Joseph F. Ogden
of Tunkhannock. The seedings were
obtained from the State nursery at
Mount Union at a cost of $2 per
thousand. Mr. Ogden has transplanted
forty thousand trees in the past fou:
yvears.— Tunkhannock Republican.
Louis T. McFadden, member of
Congress from the fifteenth Pennsyl-
vania district, has renewed his efforts
to have the United States erect a
monument in commemoration of David
Wilmot, author of the Wilmot Proviso,
on the site of the Wilmot homestead
at Towanda. A bill which weuld ap-
propriate $50,000 for the erection of
the monument under the direction of
pthe National Commission of Fine Arts,
has been introduced by Mr. McFadden
and referred to the library committee.
Pennsylvania and Wyoming Valley
will be the battle ground for a gasoline
war this summer, first rumblings of
which have been already heard this
Spring. Standard Oil is combating
Atlantic gasoline because Atlantic
broke a gentleman’s agreement and
placed stations in New Jersey. Mohbil-
gas, owned by Standard Oil of New
York, has replaced Tydol at all sta-
(© 1930, King Features Syndicate, Inc.)
TWO FAMOUS WRITERS = |
‘vice from 5¢ to 3c per kiilowatt hour
tions owned by Hi-Grade Gas and Oil
Company, former distributors of Tydol |
gasoline. Shell Oil, backed by the
Bank of England, and is to England
what the Standard Oil Company is tol
America, is, now, being distributed at
all stations which formerly sold
Texaco gasoline. The old companies
are trying to back in the field. The
new companies are trying to make
their foothold secure. The result is
that all gasoline companies are putting
on high power advertising campaigns
and offdring unexcelled service. Other
companies operating in Wyo-
ming Valley are iRchfield, American
and a number of lesser companies,
Last year Pennsylvanians paid more
than thirty-five million dollars in
gasoline tax to the State. The largest
tax paid by the citizens of any State
in the Union. 3
new
Tunkhannock borough is lighted
with 104 incandescent lamps of 100
watt bulbs and nine boulevard lights
of 400 watt bulbs. The 100 watt lights
cost $30 each per year and the boule-
vard lights cost $57.50 each. The total
cost of lighting is $3,637.50 a year.
The Sullivan County Electric Com-
pany, owned by Associated Gas and
Electric Company, furnishes the elec-
tric power. The company has filed a
new schedule of ratés with the Pub-
lic Service Commission, effective April
22, 1930, reducing the charge for ser-
for all over 100 kilowatts used per
months.
Warren Tompkins, aged 29, of
Bushville, near Montrose, Susquehanna
county, was instantly killed last week
by a piece of flywheel which burst
while he and his brothers were en-
gaged in cutting wood with a power
saw. The young man was struck in
the chest and neck by a section of the
wheel, causing instant death. A. piece
of iron entered the chest and pased
out of the back, nearly severing the
head from the body.
Carverton
Miss Margaret Knorr, who has been
spending a month with her aunt in
Old Forge, returned home Sunday.
Miss Dorothy Thompson,
been ill, is out again.
Mr. and Mrs. George Knorr, children
Etta, Sarah and Charles, called here
recently.
Miss Mary and Genevieve Hefft has
returned home after visiting their
father at Lymanviile.
who has
The Queen Esthers will give a ban-
quet at the home of Mrs. Clarence
MeCracken, Tuesday evening, April 8.
Isaac Coursen has the poles set and
is wiring his building for electric
lights.
Church services for April 20—Sun-
day school at 1:30 and church at 2:30.
Herbert Knorr, George Knorr, son
Charles and Sarah Knorr motored to
Old Forge and called on Harry Brown
at that place on Sunday.
Mrs. Albert Thompson, Sr., is on the
sick list. ;
Mrs. Bertha Anderson, Herbert
Knorr and Mrs. Mary Knorr visited
the latter's son, George Knorr, on Sun-
day.
im-
Mrs. Isaac Coursen is much
proved from her illness.
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Mr. and Mrs. Tim Walsh and family
and Lawrence Frempter spent Sunday
with their mother, Mrs. George Fremp-
ter of this place.
Mr. and Mrs. John Skromsky and
little son spent Sunday at the home
of Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Sickler.
The many friends of Miss Frances
DuBoice were glad to learn of her
successful operation for goitre and all
wish her a speedy recovery.
Mrs. Jacob Sickler is ill
George Turner is caring’ for her.
Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Evans, for-
merly of this place, are rejoicing over
the arrival of a daughter.
Miss
following friends at a chicken dinner
recently: Clyde Evans, Lemuel
Troaster, Nancy Evans, Kingston;
Karl Gruver, Harry Jones, Alma Faux,
Joseph Faux, Joanna Faux, Wyoming.
Rumors are current that Bill Evans
is opening his hall and running
dances. Hurry up, Bill, we are getting
anxious for a good time.
Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Eggleston are
spending a couple of weeks at the
home of their son, Clyde. Mr. Eggles-
ton is assisting him with his work on
the sawmill. :
Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Smith moved in
their new home at this place, recently
vacated by Floyd Dymond.
The following spent Sunday after-
noon and evening at the home of J.
H. Coleman: Mr. and Mrs. Edwin
Jones and Bertha Johnson of Kingston
and Joseph Faux of Wyoming.
Sanford Turner spent the week-end
with his mother, Mrs. George Turner.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Sickler mo-.
tored from Johnson City and spent
Sunday with his grandmother, Mrs.
Lydia Ann Sickler.
Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Rogers has
moved into the Wiilliam Evans home.
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Demuns
_ Rev. H. C. Munyon has been re-
turned to the Centremoreland charge
for another year.
William Martin of East Dallas is
doing mason work for Warren Ferrell.
Mr. and Mrs. George Paddock of
Kingston recently called at George
Spencer’s. ;
Mr. and Mrs. Watson of Plymouth
were calling, on friends on Sunday.
Mrs. Lyman Moore of Lake Catalpa
spent Wednesday with her brother.
George.
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Mrs.
Scholastic Innovation
When Dr. William R. Harper be-
came president of Chicago university
in 1891 he arranged for extension
courses. He offered courses conducted
by regular members of the faculty,
who planned the lessons, graded the
papers and assigned credit for the
work done.
WYOMING COUNTY VOTERS
FOR REPRESENTATIVE:
I will be a candidate for the office
of Representative in the General#
#1 Assembly at the Primary Election }
of 1930, and would respectfully |
solicit the support of the voters. If¥
nominated and elected I will en-
§ deavor to serve Wyoming County |
| to the best of my ability.
| CHARLES L. TERRY.
! Nicholson Borough.
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