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VOL. 42
THE DALLAS POST, DALLAS, PA.,
FRIDAY, APRIL 22, 1932.
_No. 17
SMALL INDUSTRIES SHOW
PROGRESS DURING DEPRESSION
Dr. Julius Kline, Ass Assistant Sourstary
Of Commerce Tells Nation Over
Radio Hook-up
ne of the striking features of this
troubled business period our coun-
try has been passing through for the
past two years has been the emergence
of the small industrial plant as an in-
«creasingly important element in our
economic structure. Even to those who
may not be manufacturers, a pact of
this sort is of direct importance, for
manufacturing developments have a
rather direct relation to the goods that
consumers buy every day, and the
prices paid for them.
The United States has for so long
‘been teaching the rest of the world
the meaning of “big business” that the
casual observer for America’s indus-
trial set-up may frequently have re-
ceived an impression that the small
manufacturer was being relegated to
a situation approximating that of a
rabbit in a cage of tigers. Mass pro-
duction, business consolidation, were
until recenty our watch-cries. One
would not for a moment want to sug-
gest that the day of big business is
over or that the economies and tech-
nical advantages of mass production
are not going to continue to play an
exceedingly important part in busi-
ness recovery and in the maintenance
> of our position of leadership in many
fields of manufacturing. I do want to
suggest though,—if you will permit
me to disregard a few zoological tech-
nicalities in resuming my figure of
speech, — that it has been convinc-
ingly proved that our industrial rab-
bits cannot only live happily in the tig-
er's cage, but can grow fat, and as
rabbits uf all sorts have a way of do-
ing, can multiply.
To begin with, even in the heydey
of our late lamented boom period there
were plenty of small industrial units
irr every part of the United States
guietly producing their goods and sell-
ing them to the satisfaction of their
stockholders and their customers.. The
advantages enjoyed by the small plant
=re nothing new and do not depend on
a general depression by any means.
But there is noquestion that those ad-
vantages become more evident during
a slump and are evident to more
people. That is why, for example,
there were more new companies form-
ed in New York State during January
of this year than in any other month
of the past two years except March,
1931.
In one word; the outstanding advan-
tage a small concern has over the big
fellow in the same field is adaptability.
ts policies can be changed overnight, |
without having to run the gamut of
ponderous boards and committees.
Raw materials can be snapped up at
advantageous prices when they are
needed and the small plant avoids the
loss involved in having to store huge
inventories of such materials on a
falling market. There are none of the
: : \
«dangers of absentee ownership in most
small plants, — it. was a canny New
Engl: beinanker himself who said he
~“Jrererred the accounts of such com-
Y -
x
fwere not getting any dividends.
panies, for one reason, because they
were not banker managed!
If there is one field where it might
seem that business is mbnopolized by
the large companies it is that of tire
manufacturer whose plant is about 1,-
000 miles away from mighty Akron
which increased its unit tire sales 88
per cent and its unit tube sales more
than 100 per cent during the difficult
twelve-month period ended last Sep-
tember 30 (the date it closed its books
for a fiscal year). During that period,
the tire industry as a whole eked out
a, comparable increase of less than two
and one-half per cent. The president
and directing genius of this little com-
pany, — was elected to his present
post in 1928, a year during which the
nation as a whole was enjoying an
above-average period of prosperity and
when most well-managed concerns
were making money hand over fist.
But this executive
“rosy” about the situation of his com-
pany, when he took charge, except the
red ink figures glowing from its books.
Something was decidedly wrong with
the methods of this tire company. Its
products were being sold ‘all over the
nation but the stockholder’s pride in
this achievement was not sufficient for
them to overlook the fact that they
The
esident made up his mind that
3 not going to try to compete
e giants of the rubber industry,
2 ny
enttaces
heir vast organizations and tre- |
Vnunity and
(Continued on Page 3)
found nothing
School Board
Names Teachers
Kingston Townsdip Elects Fourteen
Out of Sixteen Teachers
Kingston township school board at
a meeting last Friday reelected four-
teen of sixteen grade teachers and fil-
led one of the two vacancies created.
No increase in salaries were granted.
Teachers reelected: Shavertown,
Otis A. Rood, $1,675; Florence Heitz-
man, $1,350; Virginia Ohlman, $945;
Miss Spencer, Agnes Morgan, Mary
Sickler, $1,170 each; Roxie Smith, $1,
350; Miss Weidner and Louise Roush-
ey, $900 each; ‘Trucksville, Adeline
Burgess, $1,035; Miss Worden, $1,170;
Audrey Carle, Mrs. Susan Palmer, $1,-
080 each; and Miss" K. Phillips, $990.
The names of two teachers, Ruth
Lamoreaux and Minnie (Benscoter,
were not included in the list of re-
appointments read and approved by
‘the directors. E. P, Whitby asked the
board for the reason for Miss Lam.
oreaux’'s dismissal but none was ad-
vanced. Miss Pearl Averett was ap-
pointed to fill Miss Lamoreaux’s post
at a salary of $1,260. Miss Averett, a
resident of Shavertown, formerly
taught in Forty Fort but was let out
by the board at a recent meeting.
No bids were received on the bond
issue which has been approved by
Darrell & Co., of Philadelphia, who re-
quested a sixty-day option on the is-
sue. On motion by Nichols, approved
by Hill, a committee having as mem
bers Attorney A. L. Turner and Direc-
tor Nichols, was authorized to get an
offer on the bonds and to go to Phila-
delphia if necessary in this inatter.
Mrs. Ada A. Enke, who formerly
taught in’ Nanticoke, applied for a po-
sition as substitute teacher and her
name was placed on the substitute
list. :
A number of communications from
the department of education at Harris-
burg concirning minor changes in the
new high school plans; also one ap-
proving any movement for a consoli-
dated high school in that district,
were read.
Will Get Big
Rural Vote
Ann Dorrance and William Evans Are
Popular Candidates For Republican
Committee
fw
; al
William Evans
Two of the most popular persons
seeking election at the coming prim-
aries on the Republican ticket are
Miss Ann Dorrance and William Evans
of Kingston. Both are seeking elec-
tion as State committeemen and both
are splendid
this section of the county.
Neither of these candidates is a pro-
fessional politician. Both are, how-
ever, in favor of a retention of Repub-
lican principals throughout the State
and can be relied upon to do
work capably if elected.
Mr, Evans is well known through-
out the entire West Side. For years
he civic and
community affairs in Kingston where
he is-secretary of. the school board. A
few years ago he made his first bid
for county office but being unschooled
in the ways of professional politicians
went down to defeat before the pow-
erful Luzerne County Pinchot
chine. /
Like Mr. Evans, Miss Dorrance is
no politicion. A life long resident of
Kingston, she has always taken a keen
sure of
their
has been active in
ma.-
interest in the welfare of her
Lazer: y. ‘She “has
com-
support. from’
Walter Campbell Tetley
Heart Attack
Causes Death
——
T. A. Dotter Dies While Xo In
Rocking Chair At Sisters Home
Suddenly stricken with a heart at-
tack while seated in a rocking chair,
Tilden A. Dotter, aged 55, died yester- |
“Memorial H. S.
Band To Play
Public Enthusiastic Over Concert For
| Friends To N. Y. Pilgrimage
| With
| porting them enthusiastically,
community and parents sup-
mem -
bers of
[today wil start the final drive in the
day afternoon at the home of his sis- |
ter Mrs. Charles Brobst of Dallas.
The deceased was born in
Chiunh, Carbon county. coming to Dal-
las about twelve years ago and mak
ing his home with his sister here. He |
Mauch
| ticket sale for their concert to be held
high
| school and through which funds will
on Friday night in Memorial
sberraised to finance the band’s second
{annual pilgrimage Hoh on York City
had not been in good health for some |
years past and had retired from ac-
tive work, His condition had not,
however, been alarming.
Mr. Dotter was a member
Independents of America
Lutheran Church.
He is survived by
the
the
of
and of
three sisters;
Mrs: Charles A. Brobst of Dallas; Mrs. |
Samuel Fullmer of Dushore, Mrs.
Simon Walch of East Mauch Chunk.
Funeral services will be held from
the home of his sister at Dallas, Sat-
urday afternoon.
be announced in daily newspapers.
Tom Thumb b Wed’ing "
Scores Success
Large Audience Attends
At Dallas M. E. Church
The Tom Thumb Wedding under the |
auspices of the Young Women’s Mis-
sionary Society was presented on last
Friday night with very notable suc-
cess.
A very large crowd attended and the |
performance was received with en- |!
thusiasm.
A great deal of credit is
committees in charge and all who as-
sisted them. ;
Children who were members of the
cast are: Louise Frantz, Leonard
Thorne, Alberta Harvey and Charlotte
Roberts, Jack Dungey, Thomas Mur-
phy, Helen LaBar and Bobbie Moore,
Nancy Ayre, Edwin Nelson and Jean
Steinert, George Phillips and Isabel
Hunt, Carl Misson and Ruth Fiske,
Ralph Weaver and Jane Ayre, Alma
Nelson, Earnest Krause and Dolly
Sawyer, Lois Howell, Tommy Thomas
and Lois Weaver, Margaret Jones,
Barbara McHenry, Dick Phillips and
Romayne Bowen, Carl Roberts and
Naomi Shaver, Richard Church and
Pauline Shaver, Geraldine Moore, John
Jewell, David Schmerer, Harold Nie-
meyer, Janet Garinger, Bobby Niemey-
er, Wallace Porter, Rita Cummings,
Betty Pittman, Bobby Bowen and
Marion Gregory, Jack Nelson, Bobby
MeCarty, Frank Kuehn, Dick Oliver,
Hunt, Hazel Hildebrandt, Helen Hon-
Allen and Calvin Culp, Alice Shaver,
Carol Shaver, Janet Cordon, Betty
Welch, Claude Shaver, Nancy Swartz,
Jackquiline Anderson, Marjorie Wood,
Barbara Phillips, Wanda Culp, Georgia
Ayre, Edna Ann Felter and Beverly
Veitch, Jack Durbin, Marion Wagner,
Virginia Besecker and Bob Brace, Rus-
sell Weaver, Jr., Harold Shaver, John
Dever and Dicky LeGrand.
due
been active in the work of the Wyom-
ing Historical and for
several terms has been a member of
Kingston school board where she has
worked faithfully and hard for bet-
Association,
ter
schools.
Further details will |
Production
the |
jon April 30.
Because of the willingness with
| which the band has volunteered its
{services for school and community af-
Hairs, generous support has been giv-
en the.current project through out the
The band, which will broad-
cast from Station WJZ in New York
| city on Sunday, May 1, will be assis-
|
|
| borough.
ted by David Anstett, oboe soloist, and
| Miss Betty Pauling, violinist.
Featured guest artist at the concert
lon Friday night will be Walter Camp-
| bell Tetley, juvenile radio and vaude-
ville star, known as The Wee Sir
Harry Lauder.
| The name “Walter Campbell Tetley”
doesn’t sound as though it should be-
| long to a very little boy who is known
[to radio and concert audiences
Lew ee Sir Harry.”
But there are many things
| seem to be i ncongruous
Hears about Walter.
| pearing professionally since he was
(five years old. He toured in vaude-
ville with Keith-Orpeum and he has
been broadcasting with National
Broadcasting Co. for a year.
He has amazing poise, as well as
a vocabulary which amazes one.
“I havé twenty-two songs in my re.
pertoire” this elfin-like child
“most of which are Scotch songs in
as
whici
when one
He has been ap-
famous Scotch comedian. I always
) appear kilts.”
Although he has poise and is
toundingly bright, he remains un
spoiled and wholesome. His blue-
green eyes twinkle most of the time
and his mouth curves into impish
He is a bit chubby and has a
sprinkling of freckles across the bridge
of his nose.
in
as
(smiles.
————
AUXILIARY
FIRE
: HOLD
MEETING
The Ladies’ Auxiliary of the Henry
M. Laing Fire Co., held their/monthly
meeting on Tuesday evening, April
19, at Girvan'’s shop. The meeting
was called to order by the president,
followed by reports of secretary and
treasurer. -
Arrangements were made to hold a
card party and dance at Girvan’'s shop
on Friday evening, May 13, at 8 o'clock.
After the meeting cards were played
and refreshments served. Mrs. Jane
O'Kane’ will act as chairlady for the
card party. The following new mem-
bers were admitted: Mesdames Elea-
nore Davis, Georgiana Welch, Cathe
erine Jones, Norma, Knecht, Florence
Hunt, Hazel Hildebrandt, Helen Hon-
eywell, Lilian Whipp, Nettie Wool-
bert, Eva Hofmeister, Laverne Race
and Louise Jones.
‘Wardan Kunkle
‘| and during that time had won the ad-
the Memorial high school band
.1of Greater Wyoming Valley sponsored
Seeks Election
Sr prpnn,
Stands Upon Record of Accomplish-
ment In Borough Affairs / -
Nate
—
Wardan Kunkle is making a strong
bid for election as county committee -
man from the north district of Dallas
borough. Lda
Mr. Kunkle is one of the heaviest
taxpayers in the borough and has al-
ways shown a deep interest in civic
and community affairs. He was one
of the four organizers of the Dr.
Henry M. Laing fire company and has
been an active member ever since its
inception.
~ For the past five years he has been
president of Dallas borough council
miration of the community for his lev-
el headed work in standing for com-
munity improvemént and lower taxa-
tion. During his tenure of office the
roads of the borough have been great-
1y improved and there have been other
improvements and economies in other }
borough departments.’ The borough
tax millage has been reduced 2 1-2
mills in the past year, at a time when
other boroughs have been
their taxes.
‘With this record of accomplishment
behind him there is no doubt that the
community will show its appreciation
by electing him to office.
Watkins Speaks
Before Rotary
raising
Gives Details Of Plans For Combatting
Depression
Charles E. Watkins, Muncie Indiana,
addressed Greater Dallas Rotary,
Thursday evening issuing a challenge,
to every member of Rotary as well as
guests, to wholeheartedly support the
Three Year Reconstruction Program
i
by ~the-C Chamber of Commerce.
Treamry] Raidi
Blamed On Pinchot
By F armer’s Paper
Expense
SAYS ‘PINCHOT GANG’ DIDN'T
GIVE ‘PHILA. GANG’ A CHANCE
A broadsile of criticisms was “fired
at Governor Pinchot and his adminig-
tration today in the official magazine
of the Pennsylvania Thresherman's
and Farmers’ Protective Association.
In an editorial, “The Pinchot Gang,”
it charges the Governor has been build-
ing a huge political machine, at great
expense to the State, during a period
when dwindling State revenues threat-
en to produce a deficit in the
treasury.
The threashermen’s organization was
one of the most active Pinchot boost-
ers in the 1930 campaign. It was at
its annual convention here in January,
1930, that Mr. Pinchot opened his cams
paign for Governor in a speech de-
nouncing the Public Service Commis-
sion as the ‘cats-paw of the corpora-
tions.”
“In the '1930 campaign,” the maga-
zine says editorially, “Gifford Pin-
chot asked the voters of Pennsylvan-
ia to make him Governor
‘keep the Philadelphia Gang from
raiding the State Treasury.
Pinchott has kept since his re- election,
“The Philadelphia Gang got no
the Pinchott Gang has been too busy
doing that very thing to give anyon
else a look in.”
In support of its charge, the mag-
azine points to a series of articles on
the State government which appeared
in its pre-primary issue.
Huge Payroll Increase
In the first year of the second Pin-
chot administration the State’s annu-
al payroll increased by $1,409,416, the
Mr, Watkins,” himgeif-a~Rotarian, and
a past district governor = of Indiana
Rotary exerted a vital influence in.the
Muncie, Indiana, Reconstruction Plan,
This plan was so successful to the
City of Muncie, that it was organized
and Dublicised by the Governor of In-
diana and later adopted and recom-
mended by the Federal Government.
Mr. Watkins said: There are days
when economic recovery is coming on-
ly to those who help themselves and
experience has already taught many
communities successfully grappling
with recovery, that community co-op-
eration is the key note. It is more
than a one man task. Greater Dallas
prosperity is dependent upon Greater
Wyoming Valley prosperity, Rotary is
pledged to ‘community service” and
as such can, in the opinion of Mr.
Watkins, throw valuable co-operative
support to this whole movement.
ENLARGING
TUNNEL
Larger Locomotives Necessitate En-
larging The Bore At Vosburg
‘Workmen have been engaged in low-
says, | Vosburg Tunnel in order to accomo-
| date some very large engines which
which I imitate Sir’ Harry Lauder, the | have recently been purchased by the
Lehigh Valley. About twenty of these
“There will be election of officers at
ering and widening the tracks at the
engines will shortly be in operation
and two have been in use on the Wy-
oming division for some time. These
were taken to the tunnel and could
pot pass each other and in one place
the engines came so close to the walls
that it was considered - dangerous
should they sway to any extent while
going through. It was thought that
it might be necessary to have one
track service through the tunnel. How-
ever, it is hoped that this will not be
neccessary when the work is comple-
ted. ;
A large crew of workmen has been
going from Tunkhannock and the
work train from Towanda has also
been on the job, but the crew from
here is nearly. through . with t'eir
work. —Tunkhannock Republican.
resem se (J ent ne
HOSPITAL AUXILIARY
+. TO - HOLD. LUNCHEON
There “will be a luncheon at the
Trucksville M. E. Church on Friday
May 6, at 1 o'clock, under the auspices
of the Shavertown branch of the Nes-
bitt Memorial Hospital Auxiliary.
this time. Reservations must be
made not later than Tuesday, May 2,
with Mrs. G. L. Howell of Trucks.
magazine charges: This includes $1,-
'2v+4,802 InCTEnse Lor sataries in the
partments under the Governor Ss
trol.
“170 glorify the Governor and spread
Pinchot bropaganda throughout the
land,” the magazine adds, “the ad-
ministration has named an army of
bress agents for whom the taxpayers,
including anti-Pinchot taxpayers,
must pay $100,000 a year in salaries.”
tive Mansion, the magazine declares
the Pinchot family has been entertain-
ing frequently, “especially those little
groups of people here and there who
might be helpful in a political way.”
The cost of “Mrs. Pinchot's tea part
,”” the magazine charges, is paid by
State under “a broad interpreta-
tion of the words “official entertain-
ment’.”
Some of the groups officially enter-
tained at State expense during the
present administration, the magazine
reports, are Missionary Society of
Pennsi¥anin and ‘Delaware; Metho-
burg, Women’s International League
for Peace and Freedom, Pennsylvania
Congress of Parents and Teachers,
Federation of Business and Profession-
al Women’s Clubs.
: Kehoe-Fine Alliance
The magazine charges “the Gover -
nor is reaching out to make political
alliances with strange political bed-
fellows because they control votes,”
and asserts he “has hooked up with
leaders of wet political organizations
in counties which have
votes.
“Pinchot did not hesitate to make
political alliances with various wet
elements,” the magazine says. “He
openly encouraged the support of the
cast heavy
in Allegheny County; and in Luzerne
County the Kehoe-Fine machine threw
its full strength behind the Pinchot
candidacy, and has since collected its
reward in the shape of rich patronage
on_ Capital Hill. Wet elements in
Lackawana, Schuykill and other coun-
ties found it easy to support Pinchot.
In Dauphin County home of the: Capi-
tal itself, Pinchot made a direct .alli-
ance with the Cadwell machine, ad-
‘mittedly ‘the friend and supporter of
the booze crowd.” .
Municipal Conrt Judge Eugene Cc.
Bonniwell, Philadelphia, who has cam-
paigned against
joined the Pinchot campaign in 1930,
althought Bonniwell’s own party had
a prohibition-repeal candidate for
Governor, it points out. 3 3
“There is another example. In the
northern part of the State are eight
Yille, Price 50c.
SENT
counties containing about three per
~ (Cont nued on Page 5) :
Threshermen’s Journal Charges He Is
Building Hie Machine At State
“That is one campaign pledge Mr,
chance to raid the treasury because
~
con- >
Turning its attention to the Execu-
State
again to
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4
dist ministers in conference in Harris.
since discredited Coyne- Kline machine
prohibition himself =