ey a i: Y y ¢ Th BD 11 CU t oe should taxes Be lowered at the expense of manyof the eT 2 A lderson- i <C a as 09 » so-called “frills” of education? Both sides of this popular Lette rs J ; : ; ’ : : fellow Rotarians in the island of Puor- : : question are brought to'light in a | a Among those from Alderson who ote ESTABLISHED 1889 : : / a i - ’ - pril 28, 1933 € he annual May Day festival a TELEPHONE DALLAS 300 MENCKEN, DEWEY debate which appears in the cur April 28 tended the annual May Day festival at A LIBERAL, INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER DEBATE COSTS rent Rotarian Magazine, between Editor Post: as State Tenchory Colles on PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY MORNING : ; Wednesday, were Mr. and Mrs. Frank AT THE DALLAS POST PLANT OF EDUCATION H. L. Menchen, editor of “The ay to the attention of your club yaceson, Mrs. Harvey Kitchen, Mrs. \ ; he Rotary Club of S desires | zeorg itag c g LEVMAN AVENUE, DALLAS PA, American Mercury,” and John ¥ Club of San Juan desires | George Armitage and Mrs. O. ‘A. HOWARD ASE v M : Edi 5 : 3 2 and to the atttention of the commun- |Allen. sinus nix dialah ete nl 2 BYR Rls sacs kin Tad eT mie ee dg anaging Editor | Dewey, professor of philosophy at Columbia University. ~~ SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVES—American Press Association, 225 West 45th Street, New York. 7 : The Dallas Post is on sale at local news stands. Subscription price by mail $2.00 payable in advance. .Single copies five cents each. Entered as second-class matter at the Dallas Post-office. Sruind | Members American Press Association; Pennsylvania Newspaper Publish- ors Association; Circulation Audit Bureau; Wilkes- Barre-Wyoming Valley Chamber of Commerce. : \ i Published by J THE DALLAS POST, INC. rs DALLAS POST 1s a youtnrur weekly rural- suburban newspaper, great Stal suburben region of Luzerne County and in the attainment of the ‘highest ideals of jourmalism. Thirty-one surrounding communities contribute weekly articles to THE POST and have an interest ir its edttorial policies. ~ PHE POST is truly “more than a newspaper, it is a community institution.” ~~ Congress shall make no law * * ® abridging the freedom of speech, or ot ~ Press.—From the first amendment to the Constitution of the United States. Subscription, $2.00 Per Year (Payable in Advance) iN 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 ruratl- burban territory which it serves to attain the following major improve- nts: 1. Construction of more sidewalks for the protection of pedestrians in Kingston township and Dallas. a 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. ~ 'B. Closer co-operation between Dallas borough and surrounding town- ir \ 6 Consolidated high schocvs and better eo-operation between those that now exist. 2 7. Adequate water supply for fire protection. 8. The formation of a Back Mountain Club made up of business men and hors owners interested in the development of a community consciousness in Dallas, Trucksville, Shavertown and Fernbrook. 3 9. A modern concrete highway leading from Dallas and connecting the Bullivan Trail at Tunkhannock. 10. The elimination of petty politics from all School Boards in the region wavered by THE DALLAS POST. 7 * * * § 5 The farmers of the country are naturally encouraged a by the fact, th “the present Administration, like the last, 2 is giving every effort to stabilize their industry, raise prices, and broaden and improve markets. These efforts will doubtless meet with a degree of success. But the farmer should not take the attitude that the matter is now out of his hands. He should not seek to lean on the shoul- ders of the Administration and await results. As President sevelt has said, government farm relief is frankly ex-; perimental and is but temporary. It is an attempt to avert | a crisis and to carry the farmer through an exceedingly | ‘difficult period. In the long run, permanent farm relief must come from the farmer himself. | It will come through organization, through mass ef- fort — in brief, ‘through development and extension of the co-operative plan. It will come through the buying and selling power that only collective action can give. The achievements of American industry in the past were large- ly due to intelligent co-operation, and business is co-oper- ‘ating now in the work of recovery. The farmer must adopt the same plan. If he produces and sells as an individual “only, he will be forever at the mercy of those who buy from him. If he joins with his fellows in a strong, loyally sup- ported co-operative, he can meet the middleman on his own F ground. # The co-operative movement has done fine things. It is withstanding the acid test of depression with flying col- ors. Its future lies entirely in the hands of the individual farmer. He must give the answer, and give it now. * » » 21 4 Facts concerning Muscle Shoals as a ‘government 7 electric project, recently published in Electrical World, should receive wider distribution UNDER THE than they have so far. ’ MUSCLE SHOALS The government has sunk $150,- : 000,000 in the project. The next pro- ; posed move is to put about $50,000,000 more in Cove Creek, an adjacent and connected development. Complete devel- ~ opment of the Tennessee River for power and navigation will require another $250,000,000 or so. ~ Then add $600,000,000 for the development of tribu- taries and the building of auxiliary steam plants, and the ‘grand total is brought to about $1,000,000,000. The project would produce . approximately 3,000,000 kilowatts of power at 50 per cent load factor, at a station “cost of about 4.3 mills per kilowatt-hour, or an investment cost of $340 per kilowatt, plus cost of bulding transmission lines. : In the Muscle Shoals area at present the capacity of! ~ existing producing and transmitting systems is well be- yond demand. In that area there are great coal fields that make is possible to build fuel electric stations at an invest- ment cost of lass than $80 per kilowatt, as compared with $340. Potential increase in demand for power is small — ~ industries, in spite of many inducements, have not looked on the territory with favor. ~ From a business standpoint, power development at Muscle Shoals would be a billion-dollar waste of taxpayer's vate power developments no wserving the Muscle Shoals ‘region would be wiped out or lowered by needless govern- ~ mntal duplications. Taxpayers in every section of the money. The investments of thousands of citizens in pri-! country would lose. THE MENCKEN ARGUMENTS. “There can be no doubt that educational reforms of recent years were urged i nperfect good faith, and that they were all worth while. Unfortunately, some evils came in with these goods as is apparently inevitable in human affairs. “The New Pedagogy, in fact, was mainly buncombe. There was, of course, some sense in it, but not very much. The psychological data upon which it was based were ab- surd, and the miracles that it was supposed to achieve were imaginary. Children came out of the new peragogical Taj Hahals no better perpared for life than their parents had come out of the little red schoolhouse, and the new Model A pedagogue, with his polychrome graphs and bold hypoth- eses, turned out to be scarcely as competent as the Model T ma’am of the last generation, with her dog’s-eared speller and her ready rattan. “Some ofthe more advanced pedagogues began to think of themselves, not only as scientists of a novel and subtle sort, but also as prophets. The chief prophets of the move- ment went to great lengths. They built larger and larger schoolhouses, with fewer and fewer classrooms and more and more gymnasia, laboratories, ateliers, and shops. They invented multitudinous new species of ‘expert’ and put them gloriously to work. They sweated the poor schoolma’ams during the hot summers with interminable courses in quack ‘sciences.’ ‘ “They called for larger and larger contributions from the taxpayer, and damned him boldly whenever he cried for quarter. And in their topmost ranks they dreamed volup- tuosly of adding a secretary of education to the cabinet. “All this went on until the depression struck the coun- try, and budgets began to go unbalanced. There ensued a somewhat bilious inquiry into the whole pedagogical hocus- pocus. It was found that the brethen were getting away with nearly three billions annually (or maybe even four bil- lions), and that they were planning to demand much more. “It was found that the cost of ‘educating’ a pupil a year, which had been $15.00 in 1880, had soared to nearly $100, and that it was still going up. It was found that this vast outpouring of money had already reduced hundreds of American counties and towns to bankruptcy, and was resi- ously imperilling the solvency of whole states.” THE DEWEY ARGUMENTS. “It is proposed to eli- minate from the schools such things as health service, work with wood, metal, tools, domestic arts, music, drawing, and dramatics, on the ground that they are ‘frills’ and costly frills at that. I do not question the desirability of every legitimate economy in the conduct of the schools. I deny # solutely that saving money at the expense of the lives of | young people, now and in the future, is economy. “Economy is something more than reducing expendi- ture of funds. If it were not, it would be economy to save the money now spent in buying food, shelter and clothing for the millions of unemployed. It is as heartless and as foolish to starve the minds and characters of the young as it is to starve the bodies of their parents. The real question is not economy waste but whether things scornfully named frills are or are not important things in the education of mind and brain; whether they are luxuries or whether they are necessities in the present state of siciety. “Early in its history the United State committed itself to a system of education for all, conducted at public ex- pense. This was not accidental but was a manifestation of our fundamental national faith. Our educational system has always had enemies but they have been those who had no faith in any of our democratic social experiment. “The economic crisis has encouraged these people to come back to the attack. They make a great fuss about ‘frills.’ Their real oppesition is to the belief in human ca- pacity, the belief in the right of every human to have a chance to develop, the desire of parents that their children shall have better opportunities than they enjoyed — the be- : liefs that created the tax-supported American public-school system. Show me a man who is active in attacking our schools because of their ‘frills’ and I will show you either a large tax-payer who sends his own children to a private school or else one who disbelieves in the whole democratic endeavor. : “Imagine every study, every activity, every piece of equipment an dfacility, that is today condemned as a fr’ eliminated from schools. Imagine that the schools have gone back to what their critics still believe to be the €ssen- tions. How attractive would these schools be? “It is as absurd to suppose that schools could remain unchanged during the tremendous social expansions and re- organizations of th elast forty years, as it is to suppose that the old local grist-mills, saw-mills, and blacksmith shops could continue to serve new conditions, or that the old dirt roads could meet the needs of an automobileage. There is no measure, fixed and unchanging from age to age, by {which to decide what is a frill and what an essential in edu- cation. The only true gauge is social conditions and needs. “Teachers and schools must indeed de what they can to rescue communities from the dangers of bankruptcy through excessive taxation. But the expense of even the excrescenes that could be lopped enough is nothing com- pared with political frills in job-holding and in complication of taxing agencies. Let the gentlemen who are making a drive on the schools turn toward extravagances and corrup- Ition in politics, and not take it out on helpless children.” ‘American ships. ity in which you live, certain funda- mental facts concerning Puorto Rico which are not fully grasped by a con- lack of knowledge in regard to Puorto siderable number of Americans. This Rico has had an amusing side, as for example: when Rotary Clubs in the States request us for specimens of our national stamps or of our national flag; but it also has its serious side, as for example: during the lat few months several firms in the States have cancelledorders sent to Puorto Rico for the purchase of our products under the erroneous impression that Puorto Rico was a foreign country. The campaign in the States in favor of “Buy American” places Puorto Rico in the same classification as a for- e¢ign country, and has proved detrimen- tal to our island. Puorto Rico is a territory of the United State of America. The chief ex- ecutive and judicial officers of our In- sular Government are appointed by the President of the United States, and all branches of the Federal Govern- ment function here in the same man- ner as they do in the States. Puerto Ricans are American citi- zens in the fullest sense of the word; they are loyal to the American flag, and support the American Coustitu- tion. Consequently, goods shipped from Puerto Rico are made by Ameri- can labor, financed with American ca- pital, and transported to the States in Due to the fact that Puerto Rico is an island ‘separated physically from Lillian York went to Harrisburg om Sunday evening. She will be away for an indefinite period. Mr, anud Mrs. Harvey Kitchen and daughter Mildred left on Thursday to spend the week end in Philadelphia, They will be the guests of Mr. and Mrs. J.C. Panzia, Among those locally who viewed the quilt exhibit at the Wilkes-Barre Re- cord Office were Mrs. Lucy Altemus, Mrs. Estella Enders, Phyllis and El- liot Enders, Emma Odenkirchen and Adda 'Garinger. Mrs. A. Mayer and Mrs. Arthur Kocher of Taketon also attended. — x 5 \ Mr. and Mrs. D. P. Thomas have re- turned after having spent the winter in Forty Fort. They will reside here for the summer. Mrs. Thomas will en- tertain the Ladies’ Aid society on May 25th. A number of local members attended the W. C. T. U. meeting at Mrs. Charles Herdman at Kunkle on Tues- day afternoon. \ Mary Thompson is spending several days with Mr. and Mrs. Nel- son Thompson in Dallas. i Mrs. Mr. and Mrs. Earl Rescorla and daughter Betty of Wilkes-Barre spent the week end at their cottage here. ’ \ to Rico, we earnestly request that you continental United States, its exports | and imports are officially recorded by | the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic | Commerce, and these records show | that Puerto Rico is second only to (Canada in the purchase of products from continental United States. As purchaser of goods from continental United States, Puerto Rico ranks sev- enth in all the world. In justice tov your fellow citizens and give the widest publicity to this letter; such as reading it before your Club, and publishing it in your local press and trade journals; so that the truth may be known about Puerto Rico, its people, and its products. Rotarily yours, L. L. Lindstrom, President. (Continued on Page 3) Quality Every food, item on our shelves—and we have over 1200—is the very highest Quality. Therefore you can be sure that the foods you buy in our 45C0 Stores will give you complete satisfaction or your money will be cheerfully refunded. Wherz Quality Counts & Your Money Goes Furthest Counts! 1 ne or Chocolate Ye 45C0 sserts = 19¢ and get one FREE A tempting, easy-to-prepare dessert— specially priced this week Buy 2 cans of 10c Calo Campbell's Dog Food Tomato Juice for 17c 3 cans 25c¢ You Save Five Cents ASCO Pure Fruit Preserves 16-0z jar 15¢ Cherry, Strawberry, Raspberry, berry and other varieties to choose from. Black- Our Own Bakery Cake Special! 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