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THE DALLAS POST PROGRAM
THE DALLAS POST Will lend its support and offers the use of its
columns to all projects which will help this community and the great ruraf-
suburban territory which it serves to attain the following major improve-
ments: °
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.
4. Sanitary sewage disposal system for Dallas.
5. Closer co-operation between Dallas borough and surrounding town-
ships. J
6. Consolidated high schools and better co-operation between those that
now exist.
In his brief address at the dedicatory exercises of
Kingston township’s new high school, William «McIntyre,
The Dallas Post has planned to publish a series of
editorials dealing with the three leading political parties.
: This is the third presenting the leading
points in the Democratic party’s policy.
Let us recall in brief the plans and
policies Mr. Roosevelt has ‘given to the
; nation in his various speeches. In Port-
land, Oregan, Roosevelt concerned himself mainly with the
position of public utilities in the power business. He ad
vocated government control and regulation of the power
utilities. Do not misunderstand this statement. Roosevelt
does not believe in government ownership but rather that
the companies should continue as they have been exist-
ing, as private enterprises, with private capital, and the
initiative which comes from privately owned business.
But since these companies are public servants they should
make their financial status public knowledge. Such
things as stock-ownership, inter-company contracts,
should be open to the public. The people are too vitally
concerned to be kept in the dark; the power utilities have
become nearly as important as bread and salt.
Roosevelt further desires that the utilities’ holding-
companies come under control of Federal Power commis-
sion. He also advocates legislation making the publica-
tion and circulation of false and deceptive information
concerning the power companies a penal offense. More-
over Roosevelt believes that the idea that “Reproduction
equals Cost” should be abolished in rate-making. All
these points, and especially the last one, should be a joy
to the beholder, if he lives in Pennsylvania. Let us re-
member,.as we read this, that the Republicans are, and
have been, silent on this question. And let us also keep in
mind the extraordinarally high rates that are paid all over
the State.
In Topeka, speaking to thousands of farmers, Roose-
velt presented his plan for farm-relief — a plan tg be put
into action immediately upon his arrival ix office. In ti
course of his speech Roosewst stated that while farmers |
COUNTRY
OR PARTY
FIRST?
~
as representative of Dallas Rotary club,
ALL FOR ONE breathed the spirit of commive¢y- voopera- |
AND ONE tion and loyalty.
OR ALL He -apressed his love for the small
and the beauties which the surround-
ide has to offer. Later he touched upon much |
bets in the matters of community development |
accomplished in time by the three major
of the region, namely, Dallas, Shavertown and
rorking in cooperation.
e struck upon an idea dear to the heart of The
dear to the heart of every citizen who is interes-
‘ted in his home region. With a population equalling that of
many small cities, with natural beauty surpassing that of
any section of Luzerne county all that this region needs is
the spirit and Igadership of its citizens to make it the out-
standing resid®tial community of the country.
~ What we'lack is leadership and spirit. There is plenty
of energy there is plenty of intelligence. There is a wealth
of power for community improvement and development, but
power without control is worse-than wasted. In the past
we have been too prone to waste our energies on individual
community projects, each community of the region and no
community showing any marked progress in its efforts.
What we have failed to observe is that by location, ol
Da=al conditions, and by character of POPLI- rn 41 prop-
lems of aliree communities of the - region are linked to-
gether in a come naced r0r cuoperative effort. None c
the communities can develop at the expense of another.
None alone is strong enough to bring about the develop-
ment so vital and so necessary to all of the people of all
three communities.
No problem with regard to highways, sewage disposal,
education, water supply, fire protection, shade tree plant-
ing, police protection and community beautification can
be solved by any one community. By geographic location
and by other natural conditions all of these problems are
held in common by all three communities.
We need leaders who are willing to face these problems
unselfishly. In turn, as citizens, we should encourage and
support those leaders who step forward with constructive
ideas in a program which concerns the three major com-
munities of the region.
Lowi
The Pennsylvania Prison Society of Philadelphia an-
nounces that word has been received from Don ' Luis
Jimenez de Asua of Madrid, Chairman of
the Commission which drafted the new
Spanish Penal Code, that the Code does
away with capital punishment and does
BACKWARD
AMERICA!
against “dumping” by ou )
All action of the farm questNon would be local and ¢d-op-
erative, not centralized. Fina
importance, he would reduce tha
bute them mane 24g
Peautiflil summer estate
: CAetasy
and their KLamilese comprise twenty-two per cent. of the
‘san population of he country, they receive only sev
per cent. of the income, Ana, further, the immediate |
reeds of the farmer hanye risen in price (not in value),
5 Sal
THE DALLAS POST, DALLAS, PA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1932,
THE WARNING DRUMS GROW-NEARER
f
THE LIBERAL VIEW
Pioneer Avenue.
Dallas, Pa.
Gentlemen:
May I add a word of appreciation
for your recent editorial on Socialism.
to
few papers
while the things that the\farmer sells have decreased
forty-three per cent. The “Republican Tariff alone is re-
sponsible for this, in that it as cut off markets for ex-
portable produce. :
Mr. Roosevelt's plan, beside lifting the tariff and
improving \the foreign market, wo 1d, as nearly as pos-
sible, allevia¥e all the troubles. of t farmer. His main
idea is to try mically equal with
, but by no means-’1ast In
f-ar1a taxes and redistri-
in connection with this las
comes tov mind the case of “a cer-
e vicinity of Dallas who owns a
Some time ago it was discov-
“1a -lhaveuue taxes on this estate were lower than those
on the land on a nearby farmer whose property told of the
struggle he had to keep his land and his family together.
Nor is this the only case in point that we could cite. All
who read this will know of examples where every one of
these changes are urgently needed. Mr. Roosevelt gives
the farmers a sound basis for “hope of better things to
come.”
Turning to the railroad, Mr. Roosevelt put forth a
plan which should, if given a working chance, be the
means of revivifying the moribund railroass of this coun-
try. In the first place the Interstate Commerce Commis-
sion should regulate, in favor of the railroads, all motor
carriers. The I. C. C. should no longer support competi-
tion where business does not justify it.- And the railroad
holding companies (those bugaboos of finance) should be
Y-CEXNVay .
Important point ther
tain rich man” from t
utilities, Roosevelt does not advocate the often-hinted at
aid to the railroads if they will support a national trans-
portation policy.
serve who only stand and wait!” In one of his speeches
this was what Mr. Hoover told the farmers. But are we
all going to wait? Are we all going to let this depression
. Beaumont, Idetown, etc. but I
Yours is one of the
| recognize that there are more than
[ two political parties in the field this
{ vear I am forwarding copies of the
| editorial to friends in New York to
| show them the type of young editors
we have in the back mountain region.
It's a pleasure to read a liberal news-
hpaper and I wish you every success,
Mrs. H, M.
THE REPUBLICAN VIEW
Sirs:
The arrival of The Dallas Post is
like a letter from home. I enjoy the
news from: my old griengds a¢ Noxen,
am
writinz: +hiq lattar to tell you that I
«nink your editorials are exceptionally
good, better than those in most big
city papers. The one in the last is-
sue, “Why We Support the President”
I consider the best editorial I have
read on the I
wish it might be read by every ‘Am-
erican citizen. I am enclosing Some
verses which I composed after listen-
ing to President Hoover's address at
If it is not too late you
political situation.
Des Moines.
may use them if you care to.
Wishing you succes with your pap-
er Iam,
Yours truly,
Clara Cooke Kocher.
2521 West Fourth St,
Williamsport, Pa.
Dallas, Pa.
October 31, 1932
Sirs:
Having read your editorial on the
school bus situation in Dallas Town-
ship I am now asking you to print the
| following in your issue of November
| 5th.
in the tight grip of the I. C. C. Here, as with the power | To begin -with, the people of Fern- route but the school board st
I'brook and Huntsville sections have
five years with old ramshackle buses
{resurrected from the scrap pile and
The bus
[put into use on these routes.
five. No doubt you will think it was
ago the
the
[not overloaded. Two years
| people of that section notified
{ Board of Education knew of this last
(summer before the ' bids for these
{routes were asked for. The Commit-
tee on School Bus I'mprovement asked
me to take up their case for them and
I personally dictated the letters sent
to the local school- board and to Har-
risburg., This Committee asked that
sixty passenger buses be provided so
that, there would be plenty of room
for all the pupils. Instead of making
any investigation the school board,
with the assistance of a man from
Harrisburg, laid out the routes to be
the
use fifty passenger buses
when they did this that five buses on
the road from Huntsville to DeMuns
fifty pupils could not
carry the load, and on the opening day
|of school two of the directors were out
| with their cars to bring in any that
could not get on the buses. By
crewding them in they all got on the
{buses and were carried that way un-
'til the highway patrol ordered them
to stop it. :
| last January the mwner of the-ftwo
overed by buses and decided to
They knew
seating each
buses that operated on the Huntsville
land Fernbrook roads failed to get a
[license for one of his buses and used
lonly one bus on both routes till he
[could get another license. The people
|of the Huntsville section had a com-
| mittee go to the school board with the
jresult that this practice was discon-
tinued. This vear one bus makes both
trips and again ag committee was ap-
pointed at the last Parent Teachers
| meeting to see the school board about
making a change. And I might add
{here that if a change is not made at
the next meeting of the school board,
| certain citizens of this section are go-
|ing to court to find out why a six-
year-old child has to leave home be-
fore eight o'clock in the morning to
go three miles to school and not get
back again till nearly five o'clock at
night. This is too long a day for
children so young. if
any of the directors had children that
Furthermore,
age going to school in that manner a
change would be made promptly.
It will cost a few dollars more for
larger buses and a bus on every
1ould
have gone into this matter before pro-
government ownership; but he does promise government |had the poorest service for the past viding a consolidated school. The
school laws says~that twelve inches
provided for
the
seating space must be
each pupil that rides on buses.
The keynote of these plans seems to us to be Progress. for Fernbrook was made to seat thir- [Enough buses should then be arranged
There is not the idea of the Republicans that “they also |ty pupils and carried sixty to siXty- for so that a reasonable time for
leaving in the morning and arriving
home in the evening could be worked
out.
It would not have cost as much ori-
not provide for any prison sentence longer
» | Qchool Board they would stand for it
than twenty years.
As long ago as 1682 Pennsylvania gave to the world
the code of William Penn which substituted imprisonment
for capital punishment and mutilation in Pennsylvania in
tose days was so far ahead of other countries in dealing
vith erime that her influence was felt throughout the civ-
ilized world. Why is she so backward in the twentietn
century? % :
Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Estonia, Holland, Italy,
Lithuania, Norway, Portugal, Roumania, and Sweden
have abolished capital punishment. It has practically
fallen into disuse in Finland, Germany and Switzerland. It
“has been abolished in South America, in Argentine, Brazil,
Columbia, Costa Rica, Equador, Honduras, Peru, Uraguay
and Venezuela; also in Queensland, Australia. Some of
these countries have abolished the death penalty more
than fifty years ago and have seen no bad results from it.
Only eight of the United States of America so far
ve abolished capital punishment. There are forty which
till have it in some form or other. Among these is the
tate of Pennsylvania. ;
and watch? It would seem that this period of self-anni-
hilation should come to an end, “and that right soon.”
So many Republicans are saying to themselves and to
their neighbors that Mr. Hoover has had a “bad break”
and that he deserves another chance. But the point to
keep in mind is that not only has Mr. Hoover had a rotten
four years, years that would have been hard for any man,
but he has very little constructive work to show for all
he is supposed to have done. Mr .Hoover, because he is
a modern President has had many opportunities to take
matters into his own hands, and act. But rather than take
the responsibility for anything that might not succeed, he
has hedged and appointed committees (which is merely
another way of procrastination). In years past we have
given the President more and more power of individual ac-
tion. Now let us have a man in the “driver’s seat” who
can and will use this power to the advantage of the
country. This year we must choose what we think (if we
think before we vote) will benefit the country; not what
will put or keep a given party in power.
or slump, or what-is-it work itself out, while we all sit by uo ionger and another bus was added ginally for larger buses as it will now
[to take care of the surplus. During cost to add additional equipment. The
[the time that this bus, was overloaded |people whom I represent do not want
|the girls and boys were subjected to the world and all that is in it, and
lal kinds of abuse. “shouting Joud and
thrown over their All they ask
trousers fastened at the waist were ig that if their children have to be
pulled down to their knees with noth- transported to school, sufficient and
ling underneath but the suit they were suitable conveyances be provided so
{born in. girls had [that they may leave in the
| their books and lunch in ene-arm and morning and arrive back in the even-
They know
Girls dresses were they not
long about the taxes.”
are
heads and boys
These boys and home
were holding on to the side of the ing at reasonable time.
bus with the other, and had no pro- [the financial handicap under
tection from those sitting down. | the school board is working but when
I fully realize transfer a
changed but the parents of these boys | teacher from first grade to high school
and girls have a right demand {ag assistant to the principal and in-
something different from this. Do woul salary, when all other
blame certain citizens for asking the [school boards are cutting down on the
highway patrol to make an investiga- | number of teachers as well as salaries
tion? After the inspection was made | wherever they can, it would appear as
twenty-seven pupils taken from two [though the transportation of the chil-
ives had to have other transporta- dren to and from school would have
“tion provided. fe to stand for all cuts in expenses
{Now the school directors and State H. Evans.
which
that times “have they see the directors
to
crease her