5 mail $2.00 payable in advance. THE DAvsony DALLAS, PA. The Dallas Post, ESTABLISHED 1889 TELEPHONE DALLAS 300 : A LIBERAL, INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY MORNING AT THE DALLAS POST PLANT LEHMAN AVENUE, DALLAS, PA. BY THE DALLAS POST INC, HOWARD RISLEY HOWELL E. REES RUSSELL WEAVER . Managing Editor Advertising Manager Mechanical Superintendent ; SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVES American Press Association, 225 West 45th Street, New York. ~ The Dallas’ Post is on sale at local news stands. Subscription price by .Single copies five cents each. Entered as second-class matter at the Dallas Post-office. ~~ Members American’ Press Association; Pennsylvania Newspaper Publish- ers Association; Circulation Audit Bureau; Wilkes-Barre-Wyoming Valley Chamber of Commerce. 7 = 3 . Published by a " THE DALLAS POST, INC. THe DALLAS awned, edited and eperated 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. THE POST is truly “more than a newspaper, it is a community | institution.” | Re ~ Congress shall make no law * xox abridging the freedom of speech, or of Press. —From the first amendment to the Constitution of the United States. Subscription, $2.00 Per Year (Payable in Advance) | £5 i 2 THE DALLAS POST PROGRAM / THE DALLAS POST Will lend its support and offers. the use of its solumns to all projects which will help this community- and the great rural- guburban territory which it serves to attain the following major improve- ‘Municipal lighting plant. A free library located in the Dallas region. and Dallas. Sanitary sewage disposal system’ for Dallas. Closer co- operation between Dallas | borough and surrounding town- hips. Py Consolidated high schools and better co- operation Between those that now exist. : 8. The formation of a Back Mountain Club made up of business men and home owners interested in the development of a community consciousness in Dallas; Trucksville, Shavertown and Fernbrook. 9. A modern concrete highway leading from Dallas and connecting the Sullivan’ Trail at Tunkhannock. 10. The elimination of petty politics from all School Boards in ithe region covered by THE DALLAS POST. ne 11.- Adequate water supply for fire protection. brook RE 1M. ~ Why thers isa “utilities Gestion’: : Ira Jewell Williams, noted Philadelphia attorney, wins his suit, forcing the State Senate Utilities Investigating Committee to discontinue operations. Williams is counsel for James S. Benn, former._Public Service Commissioner, one of the witnesses who refused to testify before the commit- ‘tee. Williams, in his own name, sued as a taxpayer to en- join the committee from conducting hearings. He pleaded that the committee was wrongfully created ata special session, called for another purpose. The Court allowed ‘the plea. But what a pitiful, three-for-a-nickel point this is, on Which to block a pobe legal in every other way, and earn- +1y desired by the majority of the citizens of Pennsyl- vania. . Is there any other taxpayer in the Commonwealth, besides Mr. Williams, who really believes that spending $100,000 on the probe is a misuse of public funds? There is a utilities issue precisely because of these tac- tics on the part of opponents of utility regulation. ~~ And, if they only knew it, the more such tactics they use, the greater the public anger, the more far-reaching the ~ successive changes in utilities law. 3 . ‘The Public And The | Utilities A * President-elect Roosevelt, Governor Lehman, of New York and Governor Pinchot, of Pennsylvania, are co-oper ting with the Institute of Public Engineering in an ol into the distribution costs of electric light and power. In other words, after years of propagandist and re- pressive effort by some of the great power interests, the American people have as their next Prsident a power lib- “eral, and have put power liberals into the Governors’ chairs of the two leading industrial States. Doesn't this show the more rapacious type of power interest what is happening? Isn’t this enough to convince | ~ them that the more they try to kill this issue without per- ~ mitting it to be fought through, the more alive the issue be- comes? ~The greatest’danger to the power industry does not come from the liberals who demand fair, low rates, but from those interests in the industry which fight these very reasonable requests. Williams’ “victory” will force the Senate to start a new inquiry, with teeth in it. That is all he has accomplished. * * * ~~ If the power industry, and all connected with it, desire it to continue to exist as a private business, they will wel- ~ come thorough housecleaning and effective public regula- ; tion. Fighting every investigation and regulatory statute, they fight the 123,000,000 people of the United States of America. In that battle they must lose. Fighting against public control is fighting for public ownership. : Taxpayers, tired of supporting city, State and Federal drones, will be interested in the latest news from Moscow. 2; Walter Duranty reports that Stalin - Good Way To Handle Drones henchmen, a third of the Communist party, as too ignorant and unfit for lead- ership. Should he do so, Duranty points out, he will only be fol- lowing the example of Lenin who, in 1921, expelled about ‘half the party members. Now Sovietism has many defects — bureaucratic inef- ficiency, inexperience, lack of flexibility—all too obvious in the slowing up of the Five-Year Plan. But this habit of discharging public officials whole- ‘sale for shirking their jobs is one that our‘ own political bosses might profitably imitate. POST 18 a youthtul weekly rural-suburban newspaper, > { 2 Better ‘and adequate street lighting in Trucksville, Shavertown, Fern- may soon “fire” nearly a million of his | —K Iss Kaspa, a four year old white boy, is found in the heart of the | jungle by Kali, a powerful lioness, who has just been bereft of her cubs and the little man-child is raised by her in the midst of the | lion family. The family consists | of Kali’s mate, the leader of the pack, her two young cubs Ruka and Dogo, another male lion,Ngu- va and Mua,his mate, who is trapped and killed by natives. Pa- ka dies of old age and the family is left without a leader. One day, while the lions are enjoying their kill, Bulu, black-maned, young and powerful, drives Nguva and the two cubs away, a strange male lion, chases Kaspa up a tree, and takes his place at the Kill. Kali, obedient to the law that governed her kind, accepts Bulu | “as the new leader of the pack. CHAPTER 4 It seemed to Kali that they could not do better than obey Bulu and wax fat under his dominance. Ruka: and ‘Dogo would fall into line, of course. The habit of subsurvience to! an older line was implanted in them. | They were not old and experienced | enough to take independent Nguva must fend for himself. He had challenged Bulu's leadership and had lacked the determination to gain his point. Kali obeyed the instinct of her kind. But Kaspa was not so amend- able. He understood that while Bulu tul- ed the lion pack there was no place in it for him, and the idea of joining with strangers or living a solitary life was frightening. He resented the intrusion of the big lion into their circle, and, young lions, had no wish to let that resentment cool. He had .all the per- tinacity and determination of man As long as he lived Bulu would be his enemy and he< would direct all his energies to overcome him, He watched the dawn break over the dark line of trees, and in silence suffered his companions to daytime action. | unlike the depart to seek their lair.” When had vanished in the waiting hyenas had they glade the gathered to the he slipped down and iremajns of the kill, ING OF THE Ji a Quramount Gicture Based on the novel "THE LION'S WAY” By C.T. STONEHAM COPYRIGHT 1931 BY CHARLES THURLEY STONEHAM '| He found the old lion lying in a don- i tail-end of the rains, the donga had {water in it, and Nguva had drunk | | there. |mauled and had lost a great deal of {conveyed to him his sympathy. | his injuries. | his lets, as such the tree and took the trail of Nguva. | : YAH Tal A e ga about a mile away. It being the The old fellow was badly blood. Kaspa sat own by him and Nu- va did not reply. He was feeling sore and savage; his pride had been hurt even more than his body. Kaspa understood that he would lie up near the water for at least three days to recover somewhat from ‘After that he intended to live solitary. He had not had a mate since Mua's death, and he did not want one. Doubtless there was plenty of meat to be had by a single lion, and - certainly when a kill had been made it would last longer. He did not ask Kaspa to share his for- tunes, by which the boy knew that he had no desire to be reminded of ignnminous dismissal from pack. It seemed probabzle that Nguga | would turn into a dangerous old’ mi- -the | WILL IT COME TO THIS? ~ sroell You'VE GONE ENOUVGH FAR y: © An Exchange The following -: editorial com- menting on the formation of a borough in Kingston township is | sogynist, who would become ey cattle | ‘or mankiller and eventually end his | life in a battle against spears or bul- | beasts always do. —~Kaspa stayed the day with He didn’t know what to do. In his | mind a fierce anger against Bula held sway, but-he knew that his only saf- |! ‘ety lay in keeping out of the big lion's | way. He dared not remain fin the dis- trict, for sooner would take him or later his by trees. or rocks at hand, and then he could not live a minute in combat with. that terrific strength. When night came he took leave ot Nguva and headed away up-river He had determined to seek the high veld where Paka had heen fond of hunting when the dry season was firmly established. It was nearly a hundred miles to the cave in the don- ga, but he accomplished it nights. He killed a dik-dik forest antelope) on the way, when at last the high, open was about felt ful and contented. Things were different from he had expected. not ‘yet left the and plains. covered with these tle and little in which both men and cattle lived. (Continued next week) in two (a small and country him he quite 'cheer- what | The Bemogo had district, thet were cat- the mud-built villages Dallas As ‘By Harry Anderson As one of the Post’s former publish- | ers, 1 have ley to say something to his army of readers. I hardly know where to be- gin or what to say, and what appears this week may be considered as sort | of an introduction to a possibly more extended resume of some of the his- tory of Dallas and .vicinity during my residence here. The beginning of a new year in- variably invites retrospe ction. In our idle moments memory goes back over the old year and recalls its joys, its sorrows, and perchance, its lost op- portunities. To many of us reminis- cences reach back far beyoaa the pre- ceding year. We think of the old home town of yesteryears of its primitive business places, its dusty roads and its old-fashjoned school and church, And we try to choke back the lumps: in our throat and dry the moistened eyes as we pull aside the veil that screens us from the distant past to peer into the faces of those who have gone before — those we loved and honored, but whose memory to many of the present generation means little more than that they ex- isted ,a fact attested probably by no further knowledge than the inscrip- the nearby cemeteries. But, ah, friends, how much more that memory means to some of us. It is nearly half a century ago that I began to know Dallas well. And in the years that followed I formed ac- quajntances and friendships which T count among the dearest remember- ances of my life, If I were inclined to be poetical, I might they meant the perfume of the the beauty of the rose and the gran- deur and sturdiness of the hollyhock. But I was never poetical. have often been told that I was too matter of fact for my own good. But I think those who know me best, will give me credit for always appearing for just what I have always been, and for saying just what I meant in my own homely way. say hyacinth, It is just forty-two years ago since I walked into a little one-story, one- room structure alongside the old Odd , Fellows Hall on Main street, Dallas, and hung up my coat and hat to be- and reporter on the Dallas Post. been asked by Edjtor Ris- | In fact I| | See It The Odd Fellows Hall referred to is not the present building owned by that lodge. The old building, which had stood many years, took fire one night about thirty-five years ago and was burned to the ground. I continued my work with the Post, | which I bought outright in 1906, al- ‘ most | years, continuously for thirty-five And filling so many positions on the paper at the same time, it fell to my lot to write up not only the murders, the weddings, the social events and the general gossip of the surrounding country, but all obitu- aries as well. And this igs the part of the work that used to get me. As time rolled on as I have stated, I made many acquaintances and some fast friendships. Every now and then one of these would say the final word. Keeping this up for thirty-five years in the little home town was no pleas- ant job, and believe it or not, the pages of copy paper were so blurred with tears on some occasions that I could scarcely read my own copy as I went to the case to put it into type. But somehow as I sit down to thump the old typewriter in response to the invitation of the estimable boy , who now guides the destinies of the tions on the white headstones dotting |to my first love. “get away from the attachment form- Post, it seems rather like goin back Somehow I cannot ed through the long years of associa- tion with the old paper.. As stated be- fore the work in the old < It believed that if had a full appreciation for the servic that these vehicles are rendering and the revenue that they are producing for the state, that you different point of view. If it be true, as you all the cars registered in Penn: sylvy nia, 12.4% are trucks, it is likewid true that the owners of these tric] are paying 429% of all gasoline 13 money paid into the Revenue Depa number, is state, ‘that ¢ ‘ment of the state and over 36% c land 9-%% combined revenue from gasoline — and license fees. If it is also true, as stated ne yo x that trucks in excess of ten tons, ro; present 1% of the total vehicles regis tered, it is likewise true that the ow ers of these trucks pay 10-14% of all the gasoline tax money paid into the Revenue Department of the state, of the combined revenu from gasoline tax and license fees. What actual evidence is there, tha there is occasion to state that trucks are a nuisance, and is it not true, ‘ac ! | portion [comes to the state | hicles and paid , hicles, Cis cording to the own records, State Department's that the accidents nc- casioned by trucks or in which truck are involved, are proportionately an considerably less than those oceasio: ed by passenger cars? HI Considering the relatively large pro j of the total revenue that from motor ve by commerecjal ve or trucks, as stated above, 1 evident that the owners ; these vehicles are paying more than, | their equitable” proportion for the use of the highways? ‘You further draw a comparison b tween the operation of the railroads Garrahan, Parkerson Perrego, Samuel Litts, C. B. Rarker, Alfred Cole, Harry | and their incident expenses and the operation of trucks. The owners of {trucks are the business concerns of lthe | these trucks Andrew Fagerstrom, Barney Honey- | twenty-five 1000), state. Ninety-five per cent of. are used in ordinary delivery service of the owners, who, lin the operation of their business, are subject to other forms of current taxes, real estate, merecan- tile corporate tax, ete, in addiion to which, for the use of the highways they paying a Ba80- and fee. a matter of public record that the state of Pennsyl- form of tax that they including liCense tax, are line tax Tt is all railroads in vania license , in_every ery form of taxes. f twelve ($12,000 ,000).8 The owners of commercial vehicles, in addition to other forms of taxes that they pay, in gasoline tdx and L- cense fees are paying to the state million dollars ($25,00 or twice as much in these two million, dollars all Robert White- | taxes as all the railroads pay in ey- evy orm of taxes, : Lg (Continued On Page 3.)