THE DALLAS POST, DALLAS, PA, FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 1031
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HE DALLAS POST, INC.
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l DALLAS POST is a youthful
y rural suburban newspaper,
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n interested in the development of
great rural-suburban region of
€ te county and in the attainment
ie bighest ideals of journalism.
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DALLAS POST PROGRAM
he Dallas Post will lend its sup-
and offers the use of its columns
projects which will help this
Sanitary sewage disposal system
for Dallas. ;
‘loser co-operation between Dallas
orough and surrounding town-
ships. :
7 Consolidated high schoo.s and bet-
sr co-operation between those that
ow exist.
The appointment of a shade tree
_ commission to supervise the pro-
tection and see to the planting of
: hade trees along the streets of
Dallas, Shavertown, Trucksville
and Fernbrook.
. The formation of a Back Mountain
~ Club made up of business men and
home owners interested in the de-
velopment of a community con-
- sciousness in Dallas, Trucksville,
Shavertown and Fernbrook.
A modern concrete highway lead-
Ing from Dal'as and connecting the
Sullivan Trail at Tunkhannock.
.. The elimination of petty politics
from Dallas borough council and
all school boards in the region
covered by THE DALLAS POST.
~ Adequate water supply for fire
And all other projects which he'.p
‘to make the Back Mountain section
a better place to live in.
LO, THE POLES!
ow that there are suffici-
‘ent telephone and power poles
located on the streets of Dal-
‘where pedestrians usually
walk, Dallas high
should have no difficulty in
leveloping a good football
eam for next fall. The coach
can easily train his players in
dodging, turning, pivoting
and broken field running by
ply taking them for a
k or run over Dallas
treets or sidewalks. It’s
funny how a beautiful tree is
Iways in the way of progress
nd has to be removed to
ake way for sidewalks,
highways and gasoline sta-
ions, but there always seems
ightly poles even if they
have to be erected in the
middle of a sidewalk or on
the corners of dangerous
street intersections.
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A GOOD JOB
Dallas borough council has
done a good job during the
past year. Never were the
streets of the borough in bet-
ter condition than they are at
present and never was the
orough street department
better and more efficiently
equipped to continue the
work of keeping the streets
in first class condition.
Not 3 has the present
school |’
to be plenty of room for un-|,
borough council improved the
streets of the borough, but it
has also forced the issue on
the construction of sidewalks
and today the borough has
more sidewalks’ than at any
time in its history. A borough
dumping ground has been
provided and recently council
purchased a dump truck for
the borough which will pay
for itself within the next two
years. Pot
The improvements men-
tioned above have all been
physical improvements which
can easily be seen by any ob-
servant citizen. But council
has done even more. In the
face of the many improve-
ments which it has made, it
has lowered the tax millage.
The general millage has been
reduced from 15 to 13; the
light from 21/, mills to 2. The|
sinking fund remains the
same at 31%. Here is some-
thing that council has done
which actually touches the
pocket book of every prop-
erty owner in the borough.
A better run borough, better
streets, better borough equip-
ment and lower taxation
mean just one thing; borough
council is on the job and is
doing its work efficiently and
well. ~~. - :
SO THIS IS PROHIBITION?
The “Wets” tell me—“All
our troubles are traceable to
Prohibition.” Read about
their troubles in 1896 :—
(Extract from interview
with Ex-legislator Richard
Patterson, President of Penn-
Sylvania State Liquor Lea-
gue, published in Pittsburgh
Leader, March 12, 1896.)
“My investigation disclos-
ed the fact that about 1900
speak-easies flourish in Wilk-
es-Barre and vicinity, 200 in
Bethlehem and South Bethle-
hem and 66 in Carbondale. In
Scranton the licensed saloons
keep open on Sunday, unmo-
lested by the authorities, but
despite this fact there are
from 750 to. 1000 unlicensed
bars or tap rooms in the
city.” Fe
* “There are 15,000 speak-
easies in Pennsylvania,” con-
tinued Mr. Patterson, “and
about 20 per cent of them
would pay for licenses if the
charge were more moderate.”
(These exerpts are from
the files of the Pittsburgh
Leader, Carnegie Public Lib-
rary, Pittsburgh, Pa.)
THE RIGHT COLOR FOR A BARN
What is the best color to paint a
barn?
‘That question is agitating some of
Some think
that to keep up with the times farmers
ought to paint their barns white. They
must be referring to “agriculturists”
rather than to farmers.
the Eastern newspapers.
An agricul-
turist is a man who earns his money
somewhere else and spends it on his
farm. There are many such in the
East, city men who keep up country
places which they like to refer to as
farms, but which are really country es-
tates.
“Which will you have. milk or
champagne?” asked one of these
“gentlemen. farmers” of a guest.
‘They cost me the same.”
The real controversy is not over the
question of white paint, which any
practical farmer will tell you is too ex-
pensive in both first cost and upkeep,
when the area of the barn’s exterior
walls is considered, but whether a barn
should be painted at all. There is one
school which holds that a red barn is
not only an attractive thing to look at,
but that it will last longer than an un-
painted barn. But the opponents of
this view proudly point to the" un-
painted barns which dot the Eastern
landscape, which have stood, many of
them, for a hundred years and then
somg, and whose white pine boards are
still sound and’ weatherproof.
~The unpainted han, its advocates
declare, become ga of the land-
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scape; it is nearer to Nature than if it
were painted in any color at all. Grant
that, and the question still remains a
practical one rather than one of]
beauty. From the farmer's point of
view, it would seem to be a question
of climate and the kind of wood used
in building the barn. Some lumber
will stand a century of unpainted ex-|
posure, other kinds of wood will speed-
ily decay unless painted. Tv
It is not an important question, but
it has its amusing suggestions. What
if we were to paint barns in the gay
pinks, blues and yellows which the peo-
ple of some European countries effect
for their buildings? Or why not de-
corate their exteriors, if not with land-|
scapes, then with “modern” ‘art in
strange bands, triangles and curlycues
of vivid reds, greens and purples? If
the purpose is to add to the gayety of
the scene, why not?
There was a time when most of the
barns. in some sections of the country,
were at least partly painted. What has
become of all of the advertisements of
curealls for man and beast which used
to decorate the farm outbuildings?
Farmers today don’t tolerate the use
of their property for such useless ad-|.
vertising. Abiut the only signs we see
on the progressive farmer's barn are
the owner’s name and the announce-
ment that he is a member of the Farm
Bureau and his cows have been tuber-
culin tested.
WEIGHTS AND MEASURES
Anybody who has bein reading the
reports from the world’s grain mar-
kets lately must find himself puzzled
by which wheat is measured in differ-
ent countries. 4
Our bushel of wheat, weighing 60
pounds, has to be translated when the
wheat goes into the export trade. Eng-
land measures wheat by the “quarter.”
A quarter is 400 pounds; everybody
has forgotten what it is a quarter of.
It may contain eight English bushels,
or sometimes eight and a quarter.
Germany deals in wheat by the quin-
tal, but a quintal may be anywhere
from 101.28 pounds, as in Argentina,
to 220.46 pounds, which is the metric
quintal, one-tenth of the metric ton of!
1,000 kilograms, equal to 2,204
pounds, France sticks closely to the
metric weights, but German grain mer-
chants talk also in terms of zentners
and double zentners, while in Scotland
and Ireland the wey of 41.282 bushels
is the standard wheat measurment, the
quarter being theoretically one-quarter
of that. 3
Russia, whose activity in the wheat
market has revived interest in these
world-wide variations in measurement
of wheat, deals in poods. A pood is
36.113 pounds, and like everything
else Russian, it seems to have no rela-
tion to any standards known outside.
But © whether wheat is in
tons, quarters, poods or bushels. makes
little difference to the grower who
must sell it at a loss. =
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EDITOR
BEAUMONT
By Richard Lawley
Whatever occurs has a propensity to
bring our minds back into the past.
And here ‘among the mountains we
-| were unexpectedly reminded last week
of Beaumont.
Many have heard of Beaumont. We
did, as far back as 30 years ago. But
have you heard of the licking Beau-
mont gave us last week? Which re-
minds us (and we're not trying to
sneak out of that game) of “Ginger”
Beaumont! =
Have you heard of “Ginger?”
~-Well, this Beaumont fellow. was SO
good and he had ginger hair! He could
play ball! ‘When the people heard of
our 11 to 5 score, they said that it
wasn’t baseball!
Now let us convince you.
You may know more about American
history!
When our high schools were playing
football, some of our older school
teachers stated that it reminded them
of the Wyoming massacre!
But I am not going back that far!
You know women exclaim, a lot of
stuff that they would not talk; they
can keep themselves looking younger
than the men; but men do not care
what they say—which is a frank view
of life.
When we say that Beaumont, Pa.,
reminds us of “Ginger” Beaumont, we
try to be interesting without drawing
and women journalists into reminscen-
ces.
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of the Champion Pittsburgh Pirates of
1901. He was the better part of that
team and associated with a preacher-
pitcher and a school msater pitcher;
and Honus Wagner and Chief Zimmer
were the heroes, under Fed C. (Kan-
sas) Clarke. Old Barney Dreyfus was
then the owner as he is today.
“Ginger” had plenty of loose ginger
hair—and like half of the two dozen on
that team, had his hair parted in the
middle. From this we invented, “well
balanced team.”
Since “Ginger” belonged to a Penn-
sylvania team we will give the lineup:
Bald-headed Chief Zimmer, Jack
O'Connor and Harry Smith, catchers.
‘School-master Leever, Deacon Phil-
lippe, Ed Dohoney, Chesbro “Trapper”
Poole, Jess Tannehill and Meritt,
pitchers.
The famous “Kity” Bransfield, first
base.
“Honus” Wagner, short stop; Leach,
third base; Ritchie, second base; “wid”
Conroy and Burke, substitutes.
Fred Clark, left field; Beaumont,
centre field, and “Lefty” Davis, right
field. ¢
We were “dumping the ink” on
paper for the late H. G. Merrill and the
Sporting News at that time. Ban
Johnson came upon the scene soon
after; he was never considergd a_‘“he
man.” But—the game has-many like
him today, especially in Wilkes-Barre.
We never accepted Class B ball. The
local amateur leagues we favored. ;
‘When Beaumont came down here
last Saturday we thought that we were
once again looking upon the Wyoming
leaguers; they had players who looked
like Schnise; Bohn, Killinger and a
few more we used to look over.
We only got.a few hits and one
stolen base. A pitcher by the name of
Traver had us going for a shut out
until the 5th inning when “Pinkey”
Swingle hit a Texas leaguer down into
right centre field with the bases load-
ed, giving us two earned runs. Then,
when the lead-off man walked (the
third to walk) Traver walked over to
first and Austin over from there to
pitch. §
We got two hits off of Traver, but
only asharp bound gave us a hit off of
Austin.
Austin had a double and four singles
in five times at bat. Beaumont made
112 hits altogether, and earned 5 runs
of the 11.
Beaumont made nine stolen bases,
Austin getting two, with the batter
above him getting two, also—and the
second batter getting three.
But the feature of the game proved
to be the appearance of the two Sick-
ler brothers, who may soon succeed
the Waner brothers as a big show at-
traction and right now they look as
good as Commowski did when he left
here to join Pittsburgh.
Commoroski developed wonderfully
during the past few years and rounded
into a real strong man. When he was
located here he looked like ‘a school
boy.
ance of becoming a strong man and as
these brothers are infielders they would
be more in demand, as good first base-
men and infielders are pretty hard to
find.
Bert Williams presented a patched-
up, weak-hitting team in this game,
but we give the pitching record:
Batters—Beaumont, 45; Shavertown,
37. Hit—Beaumont, 85; Shavertown,
39. ' Balls—Swingle, 46; Travers, 21;
Austin, 25—46. Strikes—Swingle, 58;
Travers, 11; Austin, 24—35.
Foul strikes—Swingle, 14; Travers,
2; Austin, 5. Called strikes—Swingle,
27; Travers, 7; Austin, 9. Missed
strikes—Swingle, 17; Travers, 2; Aus-
tin, 10.
Fouled after two strikes
Travers, 1; Austin, 5.
Pitches—Swingle, 146;
Austin, 67.
Batters in the Dallas game: Dallas,
40; Shavertown, 39. Innings pitched—
Swingle, 8; Lee, 9. :
Down in the valley fans are kicking
at receiving games over the radio free
of charge
What do they get from the news-
papers for $6.00 a year? It's a head-
ache to find Pittsburgh games, for in-
stance. 3
When did they ever pay for reports
of games?
Swingle, 7;
Travers, 49;
“Ginger” was the prize centre fielder
Dan Sickler has all the appear-j.
They throw games out!
Back here we have a paper
$2.00 a year.
Do your friends subscribe, send in
news and help get ads?
We built up the papers down in the
valley and we saw the time when the
news, Times and Leader were not as
good as the Post. )
Look at the news features twenty
and thirty years ago!
But when those fellows got on their
feet they had to buy new machinery.
Next, they bought new buildings—alt
in 30 years. They do noe even today,
take care of their advertisers! They,
do not try to cover games—only the
high school games!
Patronize your home paper, THE
DALLAS POST, and give it a chance
for only
to make some money to make it a
larger paper, then we all can get and
have wealth and publicity.
NOTICE!
PERCHERON STALLION
DON PEDRO
Solid Black—Register No. 186310
License No. 132
FOR PUBLIC SERVICE AT
C. C. HILBERT FARM
To Centermoreland
Service Fees, $5.00 when served.
Balance $10.00 for Standing Colt
Mares Bred at Owner's Risk
Mare and Colt held for Service
Fees
H. C. HILBERT
Radio Audiences Demand ~~ |
Mystery and Suspense
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‘Even in Music, This Is
| Chief Requirement,
Says Director
| New York City.—The great au-
‘dience of the air demands music
of mystery, of romance, of sus-
pense.
This is the belief of George
Shackley, famous organist and
conductor, now musical director
'of Station WOR.
Mr. Shackley has done much
to give the air audience what it
wants for he has made many pop-
ular arrangements that combine
ithe music of the Orient with that
of the Occident.
“Oriental music has all the
‘qualities of romance that the
resent age in this country craves
ut is not able to get from our
SHACKLEY
She is- wt a blonde, She's not a bru.
own frank, straight forward
;music.” he declares.
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“Oriental music, alone, would
not suit the Occidental taste en-
tirely, either. But when a sug-|
gestion of the East is blended
with the West, the combination is
exactly what the microphone
ordered.
“An example of an extremely
felicitous blending of this sort is
found in ‘Millie, from the Radio
Picture, ‘Millie; a song with a
typically American theme, but
orchestration with an Oriental
slant. Audiences do not know
why this kind of music satisfies
them but it does, and their let-
ters testify to it.”
Shackley is a New Englander
whose training in the organ was
gained in many famous churches.
He is also famous as the origina-
tor and conductor for the Moon-
beams, a well-known night hour,
featuring four noted voices. |
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