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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-
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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