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The Dallas Post,
kee ly iy EYIABLEHED 1889
Lehman Avenue, Dallas, Pennsylvania
a ela Ne ty SA NE A i ..Managing Editor and Treasurer
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~~ THe DALLAS POST 1s a youthful weekly rural-suburban newspaper,
‘owned, edited and operated by young men interested in the development of the
great rural-suburban region of Luzerne County and in the attainment, of the
highest ideals of journalism. Thirty-one surrounding communities contribute
weekly articles to THE POST and have an interest in its editorial policies.
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to all projects which will help this community and the great rural-suburban
territory which it serves to attain the following major improvements: |
~ 1.. Municipal lighting plant.
2. A free library located in the Dallas region.
3. Better and adequate street lighting in Trucksville, ‘Shavertown, Fern-
brook and Dallas. ;
2 a, Sanitary sewage disposal system for Dallas.
Bb. Closer co-operation between Dallas borough and surrounding townships.
Consolidated high schools and better co-operation between those that
Bow exist.
7. The appointment, of a shade tree commission to supervise the protection
‘and see to the planting of shade trees along! the streets of Dallas, Shavertown,
rucksville and Fernbrook.
: tg. The formation of a Back Mountain Club made up of business men and
~ home owners interested in the development of a community consciousness in
2 Dallas, yPrucksville, Shavertown and Fernbrook.
rare. A modern concrete highway leading from Dallas and connecting the
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«110. The elimination of petty politics from Dallas Borough Council and all
x School Boards in the region covered by THE DALLAS POST.
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The Government has at last fully recognized one of
the most heroic peacetime achievements in its history.
2 x . Gold medals commemorating the conquest
of yellow fever in Cuba have been sent to
the survivors of Major Walter Reed’s little
band of volunteers and to the heirs of oth-
: ers. They fought their gallant fight thirty
years ago. At least five of the awards, including that of
Reed himself, were posthumous.
tr In this generation “yellow jack” is virtually unknown,
except in Africa. Thirty years ago it was one of the
Scourges of the tropics. It invided the United States nine-
ty times. It swept through Philadelphia, New York, Balti-
more, New Orleans, Memphis, vharleston, Galveston and
many smaller towns.
When the United States troops entered Cuba in 1898
they found in yellow fever a deadlier enemy than the
Spaniards. Army surgeons attributed it to the unspeak-
able accumulations of filth under the Spanish regime.
~ Streets, public buildings and private homes were literally
scrubbed inside and out. Yellow fever returned. Various
theories, of its origin were tested and disproved. Dr. Car-
los Finlay, of Havana, was, scoffed at for suggesting that
mosquitos carried yellow fever.
Because of his standing as a bacteriologist, Major
Reed was sent to Cuba in June, 1900, to study the infec-
tious diseases of the country, but more especially yellow
fever. He determined to investigate Finlay’s mosquitoes
by allowing them to bite fever victims and then transfer-
ing them to the arms of healthy men, :
A Then came the question of volunteers. Major Reed,
intent upon science, wanted very much to be one. The
rest of the commission refused to allow him to take the
risk. While he was absent in Washington on official busi-
ness, Dr. Jesse Lazear, of the commission, began the ex-
periment on himself. He survived the ordeal. Dr. James
Carroll next tried it and became critically ill. Dr. Lazear
‘was bitten again—Dby accident and died.
Faced with this situation when he returned to Cuba,
Major Reed decided that the experiment must go on. He
asked for volunteers. Private John B. Kissinger and a
civilian clerk, John J. Moran, both of Ohio, stepped for-
ward. They were told of the extreme risk and the hope
of no reward other than a small Government pension. Both
boulated that there should be no reward. “Gentlemen, I
g you!” was Reed's acceptance. Kissinger was bitten,
violently ill, survived but became a permanent
d. + Moran also survived the experiment, which
onsibility for yellow fever upon the Stegom-
not proclaimed until Major Reed proved
eyond peradventure. After one of the
asts in medicine had been achieved, he
tates with other survivors. He
e but today his name is chiefly
with the veterans’ hospital
appendicitis in 1902, his
So little.” For years
ation had been taken
bat Congress voted
of peace which
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THE DALLAS POST, DALLAS, PA., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1031
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October 5, 1931.
Editor 'The Post:
Dear Sir:
It is too bad that the back moun-
tain region is unable to have basebail
clubs that will stick together through
the baseball season. nem
Petty jealousy seems to be in evi-
dence the whole season. The League
started out with six teams; Dallas,
Shavertown, Idetown, Meeker and East
Dallas. gil :
Because of its inability to win games
Meeker dropped out. :Hunlock's Creek
got the franchise but started too late
in the season to overcome the games |
lost by Meeker to get in the ilimina- !
tion series.
Bob MacDougal, one of the best and
most dependable managers in the Lea-
gue, with Butch Smith as manager,
brought Beaumont through fhe sea-
son to tie with Shavertown in the
elimination ‘ series. One game was
played at Beaumont ending in a 4-2
score in favor of Beaumont. The se-
cond game was played at Shavertown
with the score 13-1 in favor of Shav-
ertown,, :
A coin was tossed to see where the
third game would be played. Herbert
Williams, Shavertown manager, won
the toss and the game was scheduled
for Shavertown, Beaumont not want-
ing to play on the Shavertown dia-
mond because of the small size of the
field. On the day for the game the
Beaumont boys failed to show up
thus passing the game to Shavertown
on a forfeit.
West Wyoming playing, under the
East Dallas franchise, started the sea-
son under the joint managership of
“Red” Prynn and “Wally” Lloyd.
There was little financial support from
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surrender of Lord Cornwallis at Yorktown, and the anni-
versary is to be observed in accordance
BRUSH UP The President recommends that ap-
YOUR with a proclamation by President Hoover.
HISTORY - propriate religious services be held in
churches of the country on October 18,
which falls on Sunday, and that on Monday, the 19th, it
“be fittingly observed in universities, schools and other
suitable places, to the end that patriotic lessons may be
drawn from the spirit of courage and self-sacrifice which
animated our forefathers.” :
The President also directs that the “flag of the Uni-
ted States be appropriately displayed on all government
buildings in the United States.”
Approaching the date of this anniversary of a battle
“which brought to an end that heroic struggle of our fore-
fathers for political freedom and the ideal of liberty upon
which our Institutions are founded,” it would be both in-
teresting and profitable to all Americans to refresh their
knowledge of the events of that long ago time that so
severely ‘tried men’s souls.”
Often we become too deeply absorbed in our own times
and forget that generations which have gone before had
hardships, lean and discouraging years, problems of unem-
ployment, great distress, black discouragements, wide-
spread failures—and met them with a fortitude and sac-
rifice that should give us courage. .
* * *
We visited a small town in an adjoining State last
summer. We had not been’ in town ten minutes before
.one of its citizens began to brag to us
HE IED about the town’s baseball team. He gave
THE us the history of the season’s games, and
TEAM we noted most of them resulted in victories
for the home team.
The next day a man with whom we got acquainted,
spoke in words of highest praise of the town’s school sys-
tem, and believe it or not, he not only had a good word to
say for the superintendent and the teachers, but the board
as well. :
We visited in the town a week and without exception
the people we talked to had something good to say about
some feature or institution of the town.
The town gave evidence of the loyalty too. It looked
like a good town and we felt that it was a good town. It
must be, else everyone would not have stood up for it so
loyally.
We do not know much about the town, but we left it
with a conviction that it was a good town in which to live.
Any town with its community pride developed to such a
degree is going to be a good town. In the natural course
of events it just can’t help it.
Our guess is that when a project is started there that
everyone gets behind it and stays back of it until it goes
over. What a fine spirit. There is scarcely a town that
couldn’t have much more than it does if every one in it
would rally loyally behind every project and work on it
until it was put over and then turn to the next plan and
put it over.
This is the thing that makes good towns. It is the
germ that once it infects a community, gives it the repu-
tation of being a live town.
that it is a live town and like the winning football team
you can’t stop them. i
On October 19 will fall the 150th anniversary of the ||
Let a town once get the feeling through and through |
Today is 150
JBUTY
About five o'clock on the afternoon
of October 9, 1781, General George
Washington stood in the American
works before Yorktown. In his hand
was a smouldering fusee with which
he was to fire the first American gun
in the bombardment of the town where
Lord Cornwallis had taken post. Far
to the left he could hear the French
battery roaring its menace to the Bri
tish. The guns of the regiment Tour-
aine had been in action for two hours,
pouring shot and shell on the English
ships in the river.
Finally the big gun loaded and prim-
ed, and as the gunner stepped back,
Washington put the fuse to the touch-
hole. There was a deafening roar, a
violent concussion, and the
belched black smoke and deadly mis-
sile. A terrific cannonade ensued, and
the surrender of Yorktown was but a
few days away.
cannon
In the standard work on the York-
town campaign, quoted by the United
States George Washington Bicenten-
nial Commission, Henry P. Johnston
writes of the first shot:
“The
American officer
of than one
mentions the fact
that the first shot from the American
battery was fired by Washington him-
self. Colonel Cortlandt remembered
that he distinctly heard it crash into
some houses in Yorktown, If Captain
Samuel Graham, of the Seventy-sixth
Regiment, whose station was directly
in the line of fire, was not mistaken
as to the particular discharge he re-
fers to in his ‘Memoirs, this first shot
was singularly fatal. A party of of-
ficers from the Seventy-sixth were
then at dinner in a neighboring build-
ing. The British Commissary-general
Perkins was with them. One of the
officers was an old Scotch lieutenant,
who, when the allies first invested the
place, was heard to soliloquize as he
buckled on his sword: ‘Come ox,
Maister Washington. I'm unco glad to
see you. I've been offered money for
my commission, but I could na think
of gangin home without a sight of
you. Come on. Poor fellow! Wash-
ington fell on him in a way that was
quite unexpected, for that first ball
struck and wounded him terribly. It
also wounded the quarter master and
adjutant of the Seventy-sixth, and kil-
led the commissary general.”
journal more
be-
gan in all seriousness with this shot,
culminated one of the most brilliant
military maneuvres in history. It will
be remembered that only a few weeks
before, General Washington
the Hudson preparing to attack New
York in the event that General Clinton
should
The siege of Yorktown, which
was on
send troops to Cornwallis or
farther south. In the midst of these
the
ceived word thtat De Grasse was sall-
ing for the Chesapeake with a pow-
erful fleet and land force.
plans, commander-on-chief re-
Washington laid
plans
immediately his
accordingly. He wrote Lafay-
ette to hold Cornwallis on the penin-
sula of York at all costs. A gesture
| was made toward New York which
completely deceived Clinton. Before
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the Briton discovered the ruse, Wash-
ington was well on his way to the
south. A egg
Quoting again the author named
above: “To break up a base of opera-
tions, leave the vicinity of a power
ful enemy, and enter a new field, more
ihan four hundred miles distant, in
order to engage in a single enterprise,
is no ordinafy effort. For the men of
that time it was a great effort.” ‘,
The soldiers had to march most of
the way, and there were only half
starved horses to draw the guns over
miserable roads to the place where
boats could be secured.
Washington thought the matter ov-
er thoroughly. He considered every
contingency and decided it was the
only thing to do. Once his mind was
made up he proceeded with energy to
carry out his part of the plan. The
success of depended
upon the coincidence of several niove-
ments. Washington was
that the movement
the enterprise
determined
should not fail
through any fault of his.
The precision with which each unit
in this campaign performed its assign-
ment is remarkable. De Grassee, the
commander of the French fleet, arriv-
ed at the appointed time, which was
something of a feat in those days of
sailing vessels so dependent upon the
weather. The handicaps under which
Washington himself labored demanded
prodigious effort. He worked ‘ almost
night and day to get his army safely
to Yorktown. No man with less en-
ergy could have succeeded so well.
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LITTLE THINGS
Just a little word of comfort
Given to you to say today,
I wonder, friend, if you said it,
Cheering some one on the way?
Just a little clump of blossoms”
Growing in your garden fair,
Did you pick some for your neighbor
And with him their sweetness share?
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Did you check the hasty answer
That you were tempted to make.
And turn away the frown for smile,
Just for some loved one's sake?
Oh, these little things, they count,
s0,
Making up the sum of life,
How they smooth the rutted path-
way,
Through this world of care and
strife,
Just kind words, and smiles and
blossoms
How many a sad heart cheers,
Do not wait to strew the coffin
With your flowers, wet with tears.
fF M. K. F.
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