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THE DALLAS POST, IN¢
: Publication Office
Lehman Avenue, Dalias, Pennsylvania
LAL MeHenry ........... . .President
Harold Wagner..........Secretary
W. Risley..Mng. Editor and Treas.
An independent newspaper. devoted
to the great suburban and agricultural
district of the Greater, West Side,
e@omprising Dallas and twenty-seven
surrounding communities.
Subscription, $1.00 Per Year
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‘THE DALLAS POST PROGRAM
The Dallas Post will lend its sup-
port and offers the use of its columns
to all projects which ‘will help this
community and the great rural-subur-
an territory which it serves to at-
tain the following major improve-
ments:
l. A free library located in the Dal-
las region.
. Better and adequate street light-
ing in Trucksville, Shavertown,
Fernbrook and Dallas.
8. Sanitary sewage disposal system
for Dallas.
Closer cooperation between Dal-
las borough and surrounding
townships. "
Bb. Consolidated high schools and
better cooperation between those
that now exist.
~ The appointment of a shade tree
commission to supervise the pro-
tection and see to the planting of
shade trees along the streets of
Dallas, Shavertown, Trucksville
~ and Fernbrook.
The formation of a Back Moun-
tain Club made up of business
men and homeowners interested
in the development of local insti-
tutions, the organization of new
ones and the development of a
community consciousness in Dal-
las, Trucksville, Shavertown and
Fernbrook.
‘A modern concrete highway lead-
ing from Dallas and connecting
the Sullivan Trail at Tunkhan-
7s nock. {
9. The elimination of petty politics
from Dallas borough council and
,all school boards in the region
covered by The Dallas Post.
And all other projects which help
to make the Back Mountain sec-
tion a better place to live in.
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UNITED STATES POLICE
~ One of the’ reasons why ‘criminals
are caught more speedily in England
‘than in America is that England has
a single: police force for the entire
country and in the United States we
‘have as many different police depart-
‘ments as we have towns, each oper-
ating under a different system and
‘with no coordination between them
‘except in rare instances.
~The Commonwealth of Pennsyl-
yania has made a start toward
remedying this. A network of tele-
graph wires connecting every impor-
tant town in the state with all the rest
and with four main centers of opera-
tion, operates a typewriter-telegraph
system in every police headquarters.
~ The moment a crime is discovered
‘anywhere, all the facts and possible
clues to the criminal are printed in
the office of every chief of police and
the whole criminal-catching machinery
of the Commonwealth is set in motion.
~ We shall never get our criminal
element under control until such a ti-
‘up is in effect in every state and
throughout the nation. Then we may
have a change of equalling England’s
rece d for the suppression of crime.
4 A TRIBUTE
Every week we read Robert Quil-
len’s Fountain Inn (S. C.) Tribune,
and every week we get from this
paper a new thought.
Consistently, Mr. Quillen fights the
~ good fight against hypocrisy, and tor
. decency and tolerance. His battle is
waged on such a fundamental basis
that what he says about Fountain Inn
becomes the truth not only for that
town, but for every other city. And
is searching sketches of local people
that New York is just a bigger Foun-
tain Inn.
It is no wonder that hundreds of
~ newspaper and magaizne editors all
~ pver the country are (paid) subscrib-
ers to Mr. Quillen’s paper. In it they
find those verities that are often for-
gotten in the rush of life in big cities.
~ Mr. Quillen also writes for the Wilkes-
Barre Record and draws the famous
cartoon, Willie Willis.
In his weekly they find a microcosm
of human events not only reported
humorously and shrewdly, but trans-
_ muted into literary cameos whose sig-
nificance is no moore local than the
Merchant of Venice is a drama of
Venice.
is work. Thousands of years from
now historians, read
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The Dallas Post |
~ . BOROUGH FINANCES
~ There is always plenty of criticism
for the man who holds public office,
and few are the taxpayers, news-
papers and citizens who appreciate
the amount of detailed work which
faces the conscientious man holding
such public office. No matter how
he make his decisions, certain fac-
tions are bound to offer criticism.
Many men seeking public office know
that criticism - follows election, but
think = through some lucky stroke
of fate that they will escape it and
prove the exception to the rule.
Many is the disillusioned office-
holder, a good citizen and a good
official, who finds that he has! had
enough of official honor after one
term in a borough office. It is this
same fear of public criticism = that
keeps many good men from ever
running for office. :
‘Recently there has been consider-
able criticism of Dallas borough
council, but a list of the accomplish-
ments of this body of men during its
term of office might be worth look-
ing into. On April 1 there was. in
the borough treasury a balance of
$6,000. At no time in the past six
or seven years has there been a
council which could show that
amount of money in its treasury.
This surplus was accumulated not-
withstanding the fact that council
has adopted a progressive road build-
ing program and now has two hard
surface roads to its credit and is
contemplating the completion of an-
other hard surface road during the
coming summer.
Council has also materially cut
the cost of police protection in the
borough and has reduced expendi-
ture along many other lines.
Criticism there may be on minor
Issues, but no taxpayer can overlook
the fact that the present borough
council has put the finances of the
borough in the best condition that
they have been in for years.
WHAT MAKES A JOB GOOD
One morning the elevator starte:
was running the car alone. He had
on a uniform and was starting and
stopping with the confidence of a
veteran.
From apprentice to professional in
a couple of hours.
What thoughts are in that young
fellow’s head as he receives his in:
structions from the gray-haired vet-
eran?
How can he fail to look forward
and see in the older man a picture
of himself twenty| years from now.
He is taking up a low paid job—-a
job with no future. Twenty years
from now he will be just where he is
today—only older, with a grasp on the
job somewhere less secure. His ex-
perience will count for nothing, be-
cause it is experience that any other
man can gain in a couple of days.
He may from time to time force an
increase in his pay. But the increases
will not be large. Why?
Because he learned the job in two
days. And in any other two days the
company can find plenty of men who
will learn just as fast and take the job
away from him.
Recently a young man returned from
England after taking special work in
surgery under some of the greatest
men in the world. 3
He is thirty-one years old; it is
fourteen years since he entered col-
lege.
For ten of those fourteen years he
has been in medical schools ,in hos-
pitas, and in foreign countries study-
ling.
Fourteen long years of hard, un-
interrupted study. Years made more
difficult by the necessity of self-sup-
and events ring so true that we feel!
Robert Quillen mist be thanked fori,
| for sueh a’ rend and. fet
den ge
port, and filled sometimes with ques-
{lionings, as he has seen his college
{class-mates moving forward to then
places as well paid physicians, and he
lingering still in school.
Yet with what result?
He has acquired a specialized train-
‘ing such as only a few other men in
New York possess. ;
He will begin life with an income
of several thousands; he will pay
back his educational debts in a couple
of years; in ten years his income will
be tens of thousands.
Fourteen years of his life went into
the mastery of his profession. But he
need have no fear of losing what he
has gained. No other man can dis-
place him, except at the cost of four-
teen years of work. &
And when he said it he epitomized
the philosophy of business. fe
The job that the gods sell for two
hours’ training is worth just what it
costs. : or
Only that job is worth much which
‘has tied to it the price tag of con-
stant, unceasing study and work.”
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.. Do you want a eoncrete read from
il} Dallas to Tunkhannesk, eennecting| t
d} with the Sullivan Trail at that peint?|
oh Bordeni lo ‘working ‘on’ plane 3, :
or in the Prejest te,
reat, Pa. jest te &
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Lo4 4 oll ave ved, aetusily, the equie-
by ARTHUR BRISBANE
Workers Live Longer
Really Big Figures.
British Worry.
Sodom and Gomorrsh.
A report publiched by Mr. Freder:
ick H. Ecker, president of the Metro-
politan Life Insurance Company, con-
cerning 19,000,000 industrial policy
holders in the United States and
Canada, shows that workers are liv.
ing longer than they used to.
Thanks to science and prosperity,
the "death rate among wage earners
~hag diminished. ' Mr. Ecker’s statisti-
‘cal bureau shows a new low death
rate of 9.4 per 1,000 during March.
More adults that live, fewer babies
that die, is ‘a good programme.
If big figuses fascinate you, read
about an extesgordinary bridge game,
thoroughly authenticated, in which
the man of Glastonbury, England,
held a hand.
Each partner had thirteen cards of
the same suit.
The man with 13 spades made a
big slam. Mathematicians say the
chances against such an occurrence
are two thousand two hundred and
thirty-five million trillion to one.
The British trillion is a million mul-
tiplied by a million multiplied by a
million. }
With us it is only a million multi-
plied by a thousand multiplied by a
thousand.
Britain has a new worry in India—
fear of treachery among native troops.
Only a few British are in India, less
than the population of a small Amer-
ican city, among 300,000,000 Hindus.
To what extent native troops and
police can be relied on, in view of
intense national feeling,” is a serious
question. .
The British are shifting native
troops, official reports referring to
“unsatisfactory conduct,” which
means that natives would not obey
orders to shoot their own people.
Cost of travel by air and rail be-
tween New York and the Southwest
is reduced to less than regular rail-
road and Pullman car travel.
Flying from New York to Dallas,
Texas, or Oklahoma City, you save
$6.24 in cash, 18 hours in time.
And these cuts are made by the
Pennsylvania Railroad itself.
Wise General Atterbury, head of
the Pennsylvania, decides that if he
must have air competition, he will
own the competition.
Archeologists, according to the
Jewrsh Telegraphic Agency, have dis-
covered ancient Sodom and Gomor-
rah, buried in the ashes of a fire that
destroyed, and punished wickedness
with fire and brimstone. Father Mel-
lon, scientific priest, made the dis-
covery.
In the ashes were found skeletons
of wicked men and women. Imple-
ments discovered show that the city,
destroyed twenty centuries before
Christ, was in the Bronze Age. They
had not learned how to use iron cr
steel.
When fire and brimstone, as you
remember, destroyed the wicked cities
near the Red Sea, only Lot and his
wife escaped. And she, poor thing,
was turned into a pillar of salt be-
cause she disobeyed orders and
looked backward.
In the Middle Ages bishops and
others testified that they had actual-
ly seen Mrs. Lot, made of solid salt}
still unchanged by the rains of three
thousand years. They even furnished
extraordinary biological data of peri-
odical events, to prove the sex of the
salt statue,
Nobody has seen the statue re-
cently.
Dr. Kuhlmann, Norwegian scientist
visiting Mexico, carrying letters from
high government officials, visited in
Holy Week the remote Indian village
of Amozoc.
At his request, Indian children di-
rected him to a bathing pool.
A young Indian mother, Avelina de
la Rosa, seeing him with the children,
spread the report he had come to cut
off their heads and boil their bodies
to get oil for flying machines.
The Indians, driven to superstitious
frenzy, immediately stoned the un-
fortunate man to death.
Of all curses, superstition is the
worst. It has butchered, burned alive
and tortured millions. And its hold
is still fixed solidly on more than one
thousand million human beings.
In daylight saving regions tbe elock
is advanced one hour. For some that
means an extre hour of early work.
For others it means another hour's
play.’ For’ the majority it Woon be:
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Unconscionsly, a majority have es
‘tual hours added to thelr days end
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DALLAS POST, FRIDAY, MAY 9, 1930
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HEARD AROUND
THE CORNER
Politics Makes Strange Bedfellows
The old saying that ‘politics makes
bedfellows”
in the present congressional
strange is vividly por-
trayed
contest, where C. Murray Turpin is
desperately trying to return to Con-
gress.
One of Turpin’s chief backers is
none other than “Jack” Kehoe, who
is one of the strongest political
bosses the City of Pittston ever pro-
duced. Being independently rich
through his large connections as a
retired brewer, Kehoe holds the City
of Pittston in the hollow of his hand.
Kehoe has stated that he.is for Tur-
pin one hundred per cent. Turpin.
in return, has stated at banquets that
he would rather have Kehoe shouting
for him than any other man in Lu-
zerne county.
Quite An Acrobat
Congressman Turpin, who is quite
“dry” when in Congress, and most
decidedly “wet” when attending some
banquets, could be styled the “acro-
batic congressman,” in view of his
most comical attempts to be dry in
one district and wet in “another.
However, Murray is taking orders
and is trying very hard to carry them
out.
Gainging Strength
John Kmetz, ‘the regular Republi-
can candidate for Congress, is mak-
ing rapid strides in his candidacy,
and the !Turpin forces are becoming
alarmed at the strength that Kmetz
is showing. At first thought, Kmetz
appeared strong only in the mining
and laboring centres, but he is now
showing exceptional strength in the
farming sections. Coming from old
German parentage and a hard
worker, Kmetz is making an active
and direct appeal to the rural dis-
tricts.
Senatorial Contest
The contest for State Senator of
-Alderson-
Art Exhibit
Much interest has been taken in the
|art exhibit which was given all this
in the Lake
| week township high
! school auditorium.
Many parents as
well as surrounding schools viewed
the pictures and expressed their ap-
preciation of them.
The walls of the auditorium ware
lined with those pictures which are
familiar to everyone, and each had an
| explanatory note giving the name oi
the author, when painted, etc.
On Tuesday the high schools of Dal-
las and Monroe township viewed the
pictures and expressed their apprecia-
tion for the harmony of coloring, etch-
ing and design. In the afternoons
our own students were in the audi-
torium studying the pictures. This
was the English lesson for the week.
The latter part of the week was
given over to the rural schools of Lake
township. Busses accommodated all
students.
Relatives and friends of Mrs. Phoebe
Kitchen called at her home on Friday
afternoon and tendered her a pleasant
party on the occasion of her eighty-
fifth birthday. A delightful afternoon
was spent in recalling old times after
which a delicious lunch was served to
the following: Mrs. Phoebe Kitchen,
Mrs. Nettie Perrigo, Mrs. Hattie
Rauch, Mrs. ‘Fanncy Jackson, Mis.
Carrie Fraley, Mrs. Anna Kraft, Mrs.
Jane Kocher, Mrs. Walter Kitchen,
Mrs. Albert Gebler, Mrs. E. E. Davis,
Mrs. Herbert Davis, Mrs. Helen Wil-
son, Mrs. George Jenkins, Mrs. Har-
vey Kitchen, Mrs. J. E. Rosengrant,
Walter Kitchen, Lois Miller,
Martha Humphrey,
Smith, Jess Kitchen.
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Searfoss of
Wilkes-Barre spent Sunday with the
former’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank
Searfoss.
Mildred
Kitchen, Ruth
pres
Miss Kitchen Wiarried
Mr. and Mrs. Amos Kitchen an-
nounce the marriage of their daughter,
Virginia ,to Mr. Alfred K. Harvey, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Harvey of
Scranton. The couple have been at
home in a newly furnished apartment
on Jefferson avenue, Scranton, since
May. Mrs. Harvey is a well known
young woman of the community ami
Mr. Harvey is associated with station
WGBI at Scranton.
term of office Senator
has worked for Luzerne
whole. Cities have not
been favored at the expense of rural
communities; neither have the urban
Lehinan-Pike’s Creek road, Shick-
skinny-Benton, Kingston Narrows,
Harvey's Lake road, Kingston town-
ship road, Plymouth-Kingston road,
the road eliminating the dangerous
Edge Hill at West Nanticoke and the
elimination of dangerous underpasses
and railroad crossings on the Ashley
boulevard and the new and shortened
Hazleton highway were all Sordoni
projects.~adv.
Sailors’ Superstition
During his
A J. Sordoni
County as a
To mention certain animals on board
a fishing vessel is regarded as unlucky,
the animals varying in different parts
of the country and including hares,
cats, pigs. horses. spiders and in some
cases aven dogs
Sage Philosophizes
“The time spent in gambling,” said
Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, “is
more valuable than the money that
may pass. Gaming should be only for
those of leisure who have so much
Margaret Rosengrant, Mrs. Guy wealth that they do not need to win.”
Scouten, Guy Scouten, Edna Miller, —Washington Star. a
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the Twentieth Senatorial district he-
tween Senator Sordoni and Adrian H.
Jones of Hazleton is causing
comment around the corner. Senator.
Sordoni, who has a lap on Atterney
Jones due to his being a resident!
of this end of the county, is leaving |
no stone unturned to present his
candidacy before the voters.
Attorney Jones, who has made a
few trips to this section, is planning
on spending the last week of his
campaign here making a direct ap-
peal to the voters.
some
Pinchot Making Explanations
Ex-Governor Pinchot is quite busy
these days making explanations ‘why
he resigned ‘his office as Secretary of
Forestry under the late Governor
Sproul,” in order to be appointed the
next day at an increase in malary of
$8,000: per ‘year... This statement has
been /earried in all ‘of. the principki
papers of the State and the “man
shing for a little
Henace te life leng marked travel
between . Luserne. and Truekeville,
points on the important route te Har
later Borde rt
hake aid t. plasen.: Bens
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To The Voters
of Wyoming County
YOUR SUPPORT IS
SOLICITED AT THE
PRIMARY ELECTION, MAY 20, 1930
I AM A CANDIDATE FOR THE OFFICE OF REPRE-
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