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: ~ Established 1889
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THE DALLAS POST, INC.
Publication Office
hinan Avenue, Dallas, Pennsylvania
L. A. McHenry ...%......... President
G. Harold Wagner.......... Secretary
Ww. 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
urrounding communities.
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~~ KEEP THE FENCES UP
In a broad sense everyone in the
‘United States is of alien descent.
Even the Indians are of a stock which,
‘modern scientists believe, came from
Asia by way of Bering Straits. When
we speak of aliens, however, we
mean not only the newcomers but also
those who, although they may have
~ been in this country for years, live to
hemselves, retain their European lan-
~ guage, habits, customs and point of
iew and do not assimilate with the
rest of the people.
Their children, born in America,
peedily absorb the American outlook
on life. This may take two genera-
tions in the more congested foreign-
language districts of the larger cities,
but it is a safe generalization that the
third generation of American-born are
as good Americans as anybody.
0 Americanize the alien speedily.
It is increasingly difficult, however,
When the proportion of the old stock
to the new was much higher than'it
is now, it was easier. It was easier,
100, because the preponderance of im-~
migration in the first half century of
our national life was of those who
spoke the same tongue and so were
‘under the double handicap of having
to learn at the same time a new lan-
~ guage and new set of ideals and social
standards.
Except for a few short-sighted in-
“ terests that would like to open the
gates and let in a flood of cheap labor,
there is no substantial opposition
noticeable anywhere today to the re-
striction of immigration on the basis
of national quotas. It is only fair
to those who are already here, which
includes all of us, not let the country
be swamped by more newcomers in a
given time than can be welded in a
reasonable period into the mass which
makes up the American people.
There is such a thing, however, as
being too tolerant of the alien who
“comes here, not with the desire to be-
come a good American but with the
~ purpose of overthrowing American in
stitutions and Europeanizing this
~ country. There is an active and world:
wide movement in the world. Its
propagandists are perhaps less active
in the United States than they are
elsewhere, but there are foo many of
them here. |
We have developed a method of in-
suring life, liberty and the pursuit of
happiness to our citizens which works
better toward that end than the sys
tem in vogue anywhere in the world
so far. We must demand of every
pew immigrant that he subscribe to
and become a part of that system.
If he does not, he is not a good
American. If he tries to overturn that
system by any means but the legal one
of voting at the polls, he is worse than
a bad citizen; he is an. enemy of the
pation.
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THE COST OF WAR
~ We are accustomed to think of war
only in terms of the loss of life and of
property while the conflict is still rag-
ing. But there are other costs which
continue for generations after the
fighting is over.
One of these is the cost of caring
for the injured and disabled veterans
and their dependents. The policy of
the United States has always been a
liberal one, and doubtless always will
continue to be. It constitutes a bur-
den upon the people, however, which
is actually greater than any other
single item of public expenditure.
Another post-war item which russ
“on for years is the interest on lhe
public debt created by war, the re-
payment of the principal of the money
borrowed for war purposes.
And after every war there is always,
inevitably, such a continuance. of the
military spirit that the Army and Navy
never get back to the same size and
cost as before the war.
~The present cost - of running the
~~ United States, counting Federal ex-
_penditures alone, is $3,976,141,651 a
gear. These are the figures for the
fiscal year which ends on June 30 thi
year. More than two-thirds of this
stupendous iotal is covered by the
three post-war items of war costs
enumerated above. Principal and in-
terest on the public debt cost us
$1,279,894,100; care of veterans of
former was run to $757,044,485;
military and naval expenditures
totalled $692,399,804. Those make a
. grand total of $2,729,338,389.
That is what the last war is still
costing us a year, nearly twelve years
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HEARD AROUND
THE CORNER
Antagonistic
Some people have the impression
that all one has to do in the news-
paper business is to write some news,
whether it is interesting or not, just
so that the writer does not step oni
“the toes” of any of the paper's nu-
merous readers. ;
It seems that sometime, in the past
this column wrote something that. did
not sit well with a certain old school
director of Dallas township. Now, we
understand, that this gentleman made
the remark to some of his close
‘friends that the Post should never be
given news of the board meetings.
Now that’s too bad, and I guess this
column will have to attend the board
meetings and. get the dope first hand.
However, this director can take it
easy for a short time. We won't
elucidate on some things we have to
comment about at this time.
We Wonder
WHO is the certain borough coun-
cilman who said that the reason
does not favor giving The Post any
borough business is that the Post is
too independent and doesn’t favor a
certain clique of the local council?
That's right. We are an independent
paper, but we'll print the news, no
matter who it favors or disfavors.
WHO is the young man about town
who is in the habit of singing in the
trolley car on his way home? We
heard “Singing in the Rain” and
“Singing in the Bath Tub” and now
it's “Singing in the Trolley Car.”
WHO is the young man who is in
the habit of missing the last car from
Kingston and reports late for work
with the excuse that he has a bead-
ache? Why not tell the truth “C.” and
admit you missed the car.
WHO is the writer of the “Weary
Willie” column in last Sunday's In-
dependent? He sure had a “hot”
column and caused quite a bit of
comment “around the corner” last
Sunday. |
WHO is the local business man who
is a great lover of pure maple syrup,
who purchased a gallon from an out-
of-town vendor the past week? Upon
arriving home his good wife, who is,
we think, a much better judge, pro-
nounced it sugar and water with per-
haps a little coloring.
WHO is thé gentleman who “took
great pleasure in roasting the newly-
appointed assessor for Dallas town-
ship and then found out that this
party would be the one to assess his
home? He sure took “an about face”
and it is now very humorous to hear
him now eulogizing the party ap-
pointed. However, he shouldn’t worry,
as his assessment will be made on a
fair and equitable basis, no matter
what he says, thinks or feels.
WHO will be the new principal of
Kingston township schools? We un-
derstand that there are many appli-
cants for the position.
‘WHO is the young sheik about Dal-
las who takes great pleasure in wear-
ing a pink tam for a head gear.
page Mayor Hart.
WHO is the man who will handle
the “Jones for Senator” campaign
back of the mountain? We hear that
there is a united effort being made by
a certain group in opposition to Sen-
ator Sordoni. We understand the
Senator feels that his friends back
be able to take their
he
Boy,
here will
measure.
WHO will be on the line-up on the
new Dallas team of the Wyoming
League? We hope some ~f our local
boys will receive first consideration.
WHO did the
refer to when he remarked about the
“Old Forge” affair? Are some certain
married 'men uneasy? :
WHO ever reads this?
WHO!
Independent scribe
We wonder
after it was finished! Only a small
proportion of these annual charges
are on account of previous wars.
“The American people should un-
derstand that current expenditures on
strictly military activities of the Army
and Navy constitute the largest mili-
tary budget of any nation in the
world today, and at a time when there
is less real danger of extensive disturb-
ance to peace than at any time in
more than half a century.” The words
are President Hoovers.
Is it any wonder that other na-|
tions, viewing these tremendous ex-
penditures for war in time of peace,
laugh up their sleeves at us when we
protest that we are a peace-loving
people? °
It costs each man, woman and
child in the United States about
$31.66 a year to pay for running the
National government. That is an
average of about $168 a year per
family. Out of this, $112.50 is to’
pay for war.
That is why every effort to agree
with other nations to reduce navies is
important to every American citizen.
That is why we cannot spend as much
money as we should on new . roads,
improvement of waterways, the de-
velopment of our national resources
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by Arthur Brisbane
Child Health Day.
Taking Religion Seriously.
Bees as Detectives. 2
Surgeons and Editors \
PRESENT HOOVER, designating
May first as “Child Health Day,”
urges parents and all others =o co-op:
erate.
These are some ingredients of child
health:
Fresh air and sunlight—they cost
cothing.
Regular hours,
sleep. They cost nothing.
Eating slowly, which costs nothing
and develops teeth and jaws, avoid-
ing adenoid and other troubles.
Good simple food, with variety, from
day to day. That costs trouble prine
cipally.
long and regular
While designating a child healik:
day, the Government might think of
the mother’s health, also, and the dis-
graceful fact that this nation leads all
others, civilized, in the number of
mothers that die in childbirth for lack
of competent attention.
If a sow is about to have a litter, or
_a cow a calf the Government stands
ready to advise and help through the
Agricultural Department.
For the expectant human mother
there is no such help.
At Point Barrow, Alaska, natives
have been near famine for lack of
land game, with mountainous ice
choking the harbor and making fish-
ing, impossible. Early on a recent
Sunday morning the ice disappeared,
but no native went out in his kayak
until midnight.
They are Christians now and take
seriously the good missionaries’ warn-
ing that if they fish on Sunday they
will learn, later,
heat unknown in Alaska. Those
Christian natives would be surprised
to see prosperous, civilized Christiani-
ty, here and elsewhere, playing golf,
fishing and otherwise not taking re-
ligious teachings too seriously.
Prohibition agents observing honey
bees flying straight in one direction,
coming back zig-zag, the worse for
wear, discovered a large whiskey still.
This column suggested that honey
bees might help prohibition agents.
M. M. Levand, owner of the Wichita
Beacon, telegraphs: “Vice squad here
tried out your honey bee theory and it
worked. Led police raiders to liquor
still. Mailing you copy of Sunday
Beacon with full details and pictures.
Believe you have discovered solution
of wet problem.”
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It will take more than honey bees
to solve the wet problem. You must
persuade tired business men to respect
the Constitution and the liquor law
among other laws.
White mice, highly sensitive, were
used in the trenches to detect poison
gas, before men could perceive it.
If bees could detect the presence
of whiskey stills and lead prohibition
agents to them, that would be interest-
ing. But it would not end bootlegging.
Scorpions near Durango, Mexico,
are unusually venomous. Their poi-
son makes a serum to counteract their
sting.
Entire families of Durango are hunt-
ing scorpions for the Mexican Health
Department, which pays two and one-
half cents (American) for each live
male scorpion, five cents for each fe-
male, the lady scorpion being far
more poisonous than her husband.
This fact in natural history will ap-
peal to some prosperous American ex-
husbands, now paying alimony.
The famous surgeons, Charles and
William Mayo, have accumulated a
fortune of about thirteen millions,
every dollar earned a hundred times,
and will leave it all to science, the
perpetuation of their establishment at
Rochester, Minnesota.
To work hard all your life for other
men, then leave your fortune to carry
on your work is worth while.
The Mayo brothers take special
pride in having taught other surgeons
what they know, “What can I do with
one pair of hands?” etc.; but “If I can
aid in training five hundred airs of
hands I have done something.”
Similarly the editor of an intelligent
newspaper may comfort himself:
“What thinking I can do must amount
to little. But if with sound comment
and truthful information I can stimu-
late useful thought in a thousand or a
million readers, I have done some-
thing.”
The French people think logically,
act. promptly. That has kept them a
great nation since the days of Pepin
the Short and his son, Charlemagne.
The French did not like the actions
of Chinese Communists on the border
of Tongking, which belongs to France.
France sent no protest to Russia
about Commuuism, but sent troops
and flying machines to the border,
killed five hundred of the Chinese,
surrounded, bombarded and captured
the Communist town of Lungchow.
Next the French captured five Rus-
gians accused of aiding the rebels,
stood them up against the wall with
many Chinese Communists and shot
them all to death with machine guns.
Pacifism is all right sentimentally,
but it doesn’ interest the French
when there is real work to be done.
(© 1930, King Features Syndicate, Inc.)
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THE WEEK'S
DOINGS
Shickshinny is proud of its local in-
dustries, and has a right to be. One
of the most progressive of these in-
dustries is the Norman Toy Wagon
Company. Wagons made by this com-
pany are sold all over the United
States and are sold locally by the
Risley-Major Company of Dallas and
G. A. Shook & Company of Noxen.
The Norman company has sold thou-
sands of its wagons to the leading city
newspapers of America,
are’ distributed as prizes to newsboys.
Every Friday evening from 6:30 to
7 o'clock from station WGBI (Scran-
ton), the Sir Norman dance orchestra
will broadcast a program in the in-
of the famous Sir Norman wagon—the
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real boy’s wagon. The boys compos-
ing the dance band are all home»
towners, viz: Russell Grover, bass;
Clarence Baer, drums; Sheldon Er-
where they
wine, soprano saxophone; Russel Sny-
der, trumpet; Cal McLaughlin, piano;
Harold McLaughlin, alto saxophone
and flute; Edgar Scott, banjo; Gussie
Bach, tenor saxophone. Listen in to-
night at 6:80. There is a contest on
for boys also in which a wagon will
be awarded.
Eugene Dunn, aged 43, of Plymouth
township, was instantly killed
Joseph Sherick of Elm street, Ply-
mouth, injured, last week
when Dunn drove his automobile
straight into an electric light pole at
the curve just beyond J. E. Trumpore’s
residence, Sutliff
place at High Bridge, near Huntington
Mills.
The crash broke off the pole
seriously
the former Jesse
and
threw the entire section into darkness. |
The noise of the crashing pole and the
lights going out aroused Mr. Trum-
pore, the Stookey family and Henry
remaley, all living nearby and who]
The wires were |
rushed to’ the scene.
entwined around the remains of the
car and a phone call
brought Scott Kline, of the ILiizerne
County Gas and Electric Compan)
and Chief of Police Jones to the spot
in a very short time.
Kline removed the wires and Dunn
was taken from the car dead. His
body was badly mangled, a splinter
of the pole being driven through: it. |
His companion was unconscious pod
he was taken to the, Nantiocke hos-
pital at once. Chief “Jones identified
Dunn and a message was dispatched
to a brother in Plymouth, who car)
down and had Undertaker Markle take
them to the home in Plymouth town-
ship.
Battery B, 109th Field Artillery may
have a new home in the near future,
according to information’ given out by
Major General William J. Price, Jr,
of Philadelphia, Division Commander
of Pennsylvania National Guard
Troops. Major Price was here Wed-
nesday to inspect the local head-
quarters and equipment at the fair
grounds. ~
The prospect for an armory to be
built here, according to information
given Captain D. R. Hershberger by
Mujor Price, is based upon the excel-
lent record now maintained by Bat-
tery B. If this continues, he is quoted
as saying, and Tunkhannock will pro-
and
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gallon of syrup, although this is not
terest of the Norman Mfg. Co., makers
vide a site, a new armory is assured |
hy 1932.
Major Price expressed keen approval |
for the manner in which the Iocal |
troop is conducting national guard af-
fairs, and the bright prospect is re-
ceived with hopeful enthusiasm by the
memhers, who feel that so far as they
are concerned personally the new ar-
mory is a certainty.—Wyoming Demo-
crat.
This has been the best season for
making maple syrup in years. Sap
has been running almost continuously
for flive weeks. Large quantities have
been made by some farmers, many of
them not closing down in the opera-
tions until last week. It requires
about forty gallons of sap to make a
an infallible rule, as it varies with
different trees. The average price of
the syrup retailed is about $2.50 per
gallon.
Activities on the fair grounds on
the west side, Tunkhannock, have fur-
nished considerable employment dur-
ing the past year, due to Battery B,
Field Artillery, and the winter train-
ing stables of ex-Mayor E. B. Jermyn
of Scranton. Just recently Percy H.
Brunges, secretary of the Fair Asso-
ciation, succeeded in getting another
owner of racing stock to bring his five
horses there for the spring training
season. There are now forty-eight
head of horses onthe grounds and as
the track is being kept in excellent
condition at all times, quite a number
of men are kept busy.
An extraorinary operation was per-
formed at the People’s Hospital at
Sayre a few days ago when a tumor
was removed from Mrs. Minnie Cort-
right of Laceyville.
Mrs. Cortright is 76 years old and
is getting along nicely following the
operation. Her normal weight until
three years ago was 104 pounds but
since the removal of the cyst tumor
which weighed more than fifty pounds
She
has been a patient at the hospital for
her weight is now but 85 pounds.
several weeks preparing for the re-
moval of the tumor and despite her
advanced years is convalescing nicely.
—Tunkhannock Republican.
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Old Bibles on Exhibition
Marking the fourth centenary of
the birth of Jasper Karoli, who was
first to translate the Bible into Hun-
garian, Protestants of Transylvania
gathered an exhibition of old Bibles,
The most ancient was a Karoli edition
of 1592.
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money at some time to meet unusual expenses.
Ill health on the part of the wage-earner frequently means
the need of money to tide over the period until he is able to re-
Home necessities present financial problems from time to time,
Depressing circumstances are often cause by scattered bills—
by owing a little here and there and receiving duns from various
sources... How much better it is to concentrate these debts into a
single loan and thus improve one’s credit and systematize one's
Here, too, the borrowing of a small sum can save
Sometimes money is needed to pay off a mortgage, to meet
hospital bills, to make a payment on a home, to provide funds
secessitated by births or deaths, to purchase clothes, to—but we
all know of an indefinite number of needs for money.
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