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great rural-suburban region of Luzerne County and in the attainment of the
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THE DALLAS POST PROGRAM
3 THE DALLAS POST Will lend its support and offers the use of its
umns to all projects which will help this community and the great rural-
sub irban territory which it serves to attain the following major improve
nts:
1. Construction of more sidewalks for the protection of pedéstrians in
gston township and Dallas.
2. A free library located in the Dallas region.
3. Better and adequate street lighting in Trucksville, Shavertown, Fern-
brook and Dallas.
Sanitary sewage disposal system for Dallas.
Closer co-operation between Dallas borough and surrounding town-
£56 Consolidated high schools and Better co-operation between those that
w exist.
7. Adequate water supply for fire protection.
3 The formation of a Back Mountain Club made up of business men and
ome owners interested in the development of a community consciousness in
allas, Trucksville, Shavertown and Fernbrook.
~ 9. A modern concrete highway leading from Dallas and connectng the
Sul van Trail at Tunkhannock.
. The elimination of petty politics from all School Boards in ‘the region
covered by THE DALLAS POST. -
~ Warren Van Dyke, Democratic State Chairman, says:
“Settlement of the coal strike by President Roosevelt
‘gives to the coal miners of Pennsylvania
the new deal promised by the administra-
tion in Washington. That which has just
occurred to the coal industry has a deep-
; x Sgnitiests than Fppeats on the & sur-
ace.
der as the titst step in his national recovery program.
NRA movement ends the oligarchy of Big Business and
oe of Morgan i in Pemnayivanis: ‘The government is
v the Toe for the benefit of a few.
“Pennsylvanians can confidently look forward to the
Se tatives in the law-making bodies will no longer be named
by, and answerable alone to, the railroads, steel corpora-
tions, the aluminum monopoly and New York bankers.
“This state has the most to gain from the New Deal
and the NRA campaign because it has lost the most through
Republican-machine misrule and Republican-machine ex-
itation.. The state has enlisted 100 per cent behind the
NRA movement and is*looking to the Roosevelt leadership
~ to restore it to its former position of industrial predomi-
“The people are now convinced that the state's idle
factories and deserted farms are the product of the reac-
ary policies of the Mellon-Grundy dynasty.”
- What you say, Mr. Van Dyke, is very good as far as it
Gis, but Democracy will have to do a lot of house cleaning
of its own in Pennsylvania before it can begin to call the pot
: black.
We in Luzerne county have suffered long from a bi-
partisan machine that for down right political shrewdness
is second to none in the Commonwealth, and since we are in
Menor contact with it than with the house of Morgan or
ellon you can’t blame us much for being concerned.
When Postmaster General James J. Farley landed in
Scranton on Sunday one of the first to greet him was John
Kehoe of Pittston, Luzerne county political dictator of both
the Republican and Democratic parties. Many staunch
Democrats didn’t like that little gesture, nor did it rest
lightly on the stomachs of many of the younger Democrats
‘who until then thought they saw in the Democratic party a
chance for a new deal in Luzerne county politics.
Unless the Democratic party can produce leaders of a
different stamp, there's little use talking about ridding
nnsylvania of Republican rule. Not when Democrats like
Kehoe Shenge their political colors with chameleon like
3)
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3 oT e blue eagle of NRA must have been asleep over the
Unite States Capitol in Washington when the navy de-
er : partment let those sugar contracts to
Japan. It hardly seems possible that the
old bird did®hot stir in his slumbers as
the gvernment turned down its own sug-
ar refiners and American labor to make
ts purchase from Japanese sugar merchants who buy their
sugar from Java where workers come under no NRA rul-
ings as to hours and pay. Just how the government ex-
Ee If there is to be a boycott of those ho refuse to go
long with the NRA, it would be well for those at Wash-
ngton to do a little example setting by putting a boycott
D the Durehiase of government supplies’ from foreign
ociation; Circulation Audit Bureau; Wilkes-Barre-Wyoming Valley Cham- signing.
[Creek crosses the highway right here
. THE DALLAS POST, DALLAS, PA. FRIDAY, AUGUST 18, 1033.
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Nearby Beauty Spot Attracting
Nature Lovers From Pennsylvania
Beautiful Kitchen Creek
Falls Recognized As
Natural Wonder
» OBITUARY «
Most of our natural beauty spots
have been so heavily commercialized
that it is refreshing to find one that
remains in its primitive state. This
one is Kitchen Creek, where thirty
odd waterfalls have been attracting
increasing numbers of tourists who
prefer to see nature doing its own de-
LUTHER MARTIN HUPISINGER
The funeral of Luther M. Hunsinger,
aged 68 who died~-Friday at the home
of his daughter, Mrs. Ruth Shannon of
Laketon was held Monday afternoon
with services at the late home of the
deceased. Interment was in Kocher
cemetery. Mr. Hunsinger had been an
invalid for several years and formerly
resided at Noxen. Mr. Hunsinger was
employed for many years as a fore-
man by the State Highway Depart-
ment. .
Surviving are his wife and the fol-
lowing children: Mrs. George Smith,
Ashley; Mrs. Ruth Shannon, and Mrs.
Wilbur Wetzel, Laketon; Mrs. Cornel-
ia ‘Smith, Harvey's Lake; Herman,
‘Chase; Amos, Ashley; Mrs. Nelson
Traver, Noxen; Mrs. Owen Harris,
Orange; Amanda, Hunlock Creek; al-
so 20 grandchildren and three sisters,
Mrs. Dora Howes and Mrs. Clara Hil-
In the Main Ridg e of the Allegheny
Mountains, North Mountain has at its
crest three lakes fed by the springs
under them. Kitchen Creek starts
from the overflow of these lakes, and
is surrounded by approximately 20,-
000 acres of forest, stocked with fish
and game, all private property origi-
nally granted to the ancestors of the
present owners by Penn; most of this
is in western Luzerne County with
State Highway Route 115 right at the
entrance of the waterfall region. From
the South it may be reached through
Blomsburg and Benton, or through
Berwick or Shickshinny; from the
East through Wilkes-Barre and over
Route 115. Driving along the Route
115, in either direction, the only iden- bert Laketon, and Armanda Oberste,
soc 3 anville,
tifying mark of the waterfall region wie,
and its entrance is a small parking
area on the South side of the highway WAYNE L. CONKLIN
where you will see a sign; “Parking
$1.00 — North Mountain Club”. The
After several months’ illness of com-
plications, Wayne L. Conklin, 69, of
Carverton, passed away last Friday
afternoon at 5 o'clock at the home of
his son, O. B. Conklin, at William-
sport, where h® was receiving treat-
ment for his ailment,
Mr. Conklin was a member of Car-
verton Methodist Episcopal church and
was well known and respected
throughout Wyoming Valley.
Surviving are his widow, Sarah C.
Conklin; three sons, Claude, Carver-
ton; Bruce, Williamsport; Kenneth,
Pittston; two daughters, Mildred Heis-
ler, Lehighton, and Iva at home.
The funeral was held on Tuesday
afternoon from the late home at Car-
verton. Services were conducted at 2
o'clock by Rev. J. R. Bailey, Inter-
ment was in Mount Zion Cemetery.
i he
Dog Law Violators Fined
“Robert C. Mason of the State bureau
of animal industry has been rounding
up violators of the dog laws in this
vicinity during the past month. Four
violators were. brought before Squire
John Yaple on Monday night. During
the past three weeks a number have
been fined. One reason for the ac-
tivity on the part of this department
is the falling off of more than 2,000
under a new cement bridge, and a pic-
nic ground, with stoves, benches, good
spring water, etc. is located on the
north side of the road.
The employee in charge will give you
any desired information or local dir-
estions. Don’t expect to find a road-
side stand or eating place here. There
is nothing for sale. The courtesies
extended to tourists by the North
Mountain Club call for your willing
co-operation in keeping the place clean
and unspoiled. If you take your lunch,
do not throw refuse or paper any-
where; bring it back to the starting
point where it may be burned.
Paths have been cleaned of brush
and snags, trees have fallen across the
creek at places and rustic foot bridges
have been fashioned out of them, stone
steps have been placed in easy stages
up the side of the steep falls, small
signs with names have been placed at
some of the falls, but otherwise every-
thing remains as it grows. Falling
trees, beavers or the action of the ele-
ments at certain seasons may inter-
rupt the water's plunges temporarily
but the stream takes its own course
and continues to change the picture
from year to year.
- Fifty feet from your parking space is
Lazy Man Falls, the only. good sized
waterfall which may be seen by those
people who do not care to walk up
dog license fees in Luzerne county.
Since the number of dogs has appar-
ently not decreased, and-license pay-
‘now near at hand, when the majority of their repre-
| feibing an
stream to the region of larger falls.
The first mile or so from the en-
trance is a very gradual climb, af-
fording very few hints of the violence
and splendor of the waters farther up
stream.
As you go along you will see plenty
of small falls, three or four feet high,
and then about a mile from the en-
trance you will come up to Murray
Reynolds Falls, a deep cut into solid
rock; then to Shelden Reynolds Falls,
a thin, broad terraced stream; next is
Harrison Wright Falls, a wide heavy,
sheer fall of water in a most beautiful
natural setting, with a roar that's sure
to drown out the tired feelings of
most anyone. Just a little beyond this
point you arrive at Waters Meet,
where you will find it convenient to
use up a little more of the lunch you
brought along.
Here you may take the right fork and
see the gem of the group, Bridal Veil
Falls, a graceful, thin-veiled, artisti-
cally terraced, waterfall, the equal of
which is not often found in these Uni-
ted States. Further up in the ravine
a path leads to the left, a short cut
ments have, the department agents are
looking up the guilty parties in all
communities.
to Ganoga Glen. Continuing straight,
however, brings us out to the lakes
from which. you may follow arrows to
Ganoga Glen. Coming down the left
fork you suddenly come to the edge of
things and you will hold your breath
as you look rown the ravine over Gan-
oga Falls and Ganoga Glen, the form-
er being 127 feet high. Further down
yom come again to Waters Meet and
return by the same route to the road-
way entrance. The whole trip is quite
a hike, even half of it may be all you
care to do at one time, but you will
agree that any part is worth the ef-
fort. After having spent a day or two
at Kitchen Creek you can truly feel
that you have seen nature at work
with its own playthings in its own
backyard.
A
Warden Lawes, of Sing Sing, suggests a single national
code of criminal law to check all major crime.
He would enforce it with a federal
ONE CODE police force, relegate to a secondary posi-
FOR ONE tion the State, county and municipal po-
PROBLEM lice departments which now bungle about,
getting in each other's way.
Those who still believe the 48 “sovereign” States are
sovereign, will throw up their hands in horror.
But for those whose interest is concentrated on meet-
ing present and future problems, rather than in preserving
historic alighments, the proposal will come as a sensible
one.
. There are few “special conditions” or “local attitudes”
about major crime in this country. New Englanders feel
about the same way as do Californians on the subjects of
murder, kidnaping, highway robbery, racketeering.
We are united about what we want to do, but our dis-
united system of police control prevents us from doing it.
Our local police departments are frequently controlled
by local political machines which, in turn, have strong alli-
ances with gangsters and gang attorneys.
Moreover, organized crime extends acrqss county and
State boundaries, mocks at the geographical restrictions of
local poliee bodies.
As Wartlen Lawes points out, the Federal Government
has been more successful in fighting postal crimes, counter-
ther Federal offenses than have the State gov-
ernments at tighting State crimes.
The Federal failure to enforce prohibition is no argu-
ment against Lawes’ proposal. Prohibition was unenforce-
able simply because whole Sommnitio not and would
not believe that it was wrong to buy ligtio
No agency on earth could have emforced prohibition in
the face of that sentiment.
But against the MAJOR CRIMES, the nation could give
a Federal enforcing agency a unified and whole-hearted
backing. Our best chance of solving the crime problem i in
the Unifed States is to stop pretending we have 48 crime
problems and that one problem begins and another ends
wherever the surveyors have drawn a State line.
| buck’s catalogue,
catalogues in former
FIND A WAY
T0 CONTROL
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Dear Sirs:
Close to 18,000 young men, members
of the Civilian Conservation Corps,
are now at work in 88 camps in the
State forests and on the State game
lands of Pennsylvania under the sup-
ervision of the Department of Forests
and Waters.
‘Since the 1,641,000 acres of State
forests and the 371,000 acres of State
game lands are owned by the people of
Pennsylvania, I want to report to them
what has been undertaken and accom-
plished on their lands since the forest
workers first arrived in Penn's Woods
in May.
First of all, it shauld be understood
the boys are not loafing in their tents
when they should be working. Neither
are they wandering around aimlessly
in the woods.
In charge of the work in each camp
is a superintendent, experienced in
woods work and able to handle men.
Under the superintendent are foremen
and foresters who actually supervise
every working minute of the day. Men
who refuse to work are sent back to
camp and properly reprimanded by
the camp commander.
Building Roads
Many miles of roads and trails are
being built. These are needed for
quickly, getting fire fighters into thé
forests when the woods are ablaze.
They are also used extensively for
getting forest products to market as
well as by hunters, fishermen, and
campers who Seek recreation in the
great out-of-doors. Another. impor-
tant job of the forest workers is
building telephons lines, so essential
for quickly reporting fires.
Numerous recreational areas, such
as tourists’ camps and parks are being
developed and improved. ~-These are
becoming more popular each year as
places where our citizens can enjoy
healthful vacations in the open at rea-
sonable cost.
Thousands of acres of woodlands are
being thinned out td improve the kind
and quality of the timber. The deadly
blister rust, a fungous disease that
threatens the white pine stands of the
State, is being controlled over exten-
sive areas. An insect injurious to
trees, the destructive southern pine
beetle, is being eradicated from the
woodlands of three southern counties.
These are only a few of the many
activities of the forest workers, but
enough to show that the work they
are doing is actually benefiting our
State-owned woodlands. When their
terms of enlistment are up, I expect to
be able to report that the forests’ of
our State are better protected and are
producing greater quantities of wood
because of the work of the Civilian
Conservation Corps.
Dear Sirs:
I read with interest your book re-
view of the recent issue of Sears, Roe-
It may be of in-
terest to readers of The Post to know
that Sears, Roebuck no longer for-
wards its annual catalogues by mail,
letting contracts instead to private
firms who do the distributing by auto-
mobile. The cost of mailing the heavy
vears meant a
great deal to the company. Under
the present system great savings are
made and the distribution is almost as
quick and efficient. Taking note of the
new method of distribution, the post-
office department has issued orders to
all postmasters not to give local ad-
dresses to companies distributing the
catalogue,
Mrs. H. J. B.
Sirs:
Re: your editorial on speeding on
borough streets. Signs calling atten-
placed within a short distance
apart on telephone poles might do
something to cut down traffic speed,
without the disagreeable recourse to
arrests for violation of the speed laws.
Along the Sullivan Trail,
borough has done much along this line
in the reduction of speed on its main
street, Bright erange signs with black
letters call attention to the speed lim-
it.| Placed at intervals of about
twenty-five feet, no motorist cam miss
seeing them. Occassional campaigns
against speeders impress upon other
motorists’ minds that the signs mean
business.
and
‘W. B. R.
G. A. R. PICNIC
AT FERNBROOK
The first annual picnic of the Fed-
eration of Allied Organizations to G.
A. R. will be conducted: at Fernbrook
Park on Saturday. A baseball game,
4 Poets’ Corner ,
DISPLAY THE BLUE EAGLE
Brother can you spare a dime? no
more we'll hear,
For, soon they'll all have work and
will we cheer!
For many months they've had Poor
Board aid
And they were always so uncertain
and afraid.
If another winter they would have
to go through,
God alone knows what they would do.
* * *
Tis true many got who were not in
need
But some people seem to be filled
with greed.
They'd resort to any method no mat-
ter how small, :
There are certain people who are just
full of gall.
But if Roosevelt's solution works eut
right
Then the end of Relief is already in
sight, :
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Some men and their families have “ia
held on, ’ :
"Fil every cent they had was simply
gone,
And when for relief they had to ask
It was for them a most horrible fask.
Let us hope ‘all this will soon be at
an end
And from now on their own pay they'll
be able to spend.
* * *
Let's back up Roosevelt with all our
might
We'll pull together and win this fight.
Shorter hours will mean more men
And many will return to their work
again.
Wherever the Blue Eagle is on display
That's the place where we'll spend
our pay.
Mrs. John A. Girvan.
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Students Increase
In Thirty Years
High School Enrollment
Grows 18 Times As:
Fast As State |
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One reason why most Pennsylvania
high schools will be crowded to capa-
city this fall is given by Dr. James N.
(ment of Public Instruction.
Rule, Superintendent of the Depart-
He said a
recent survey showed how public de-
mand for high school training had in-
‘creased the enrollment eighteen times
as fast as the population of the State,
in the period from 1900 to 1930. Dur-
ing the same period high school en-
rollment for the United States in-
creased twelve times as fast as the
population.
This demand for secondary school
opportunities represents one of the
outstanding movements in educational
history during the foreport of the
twentieth century, according to the
State Superintendent.
High School enrollment increased
almost “one thousand per cent. in the
thirty years, for grades nine to twelve.
In 1930 the State population increas-
ed 53 per cent. over figures for 1300,
while high school students increased
931 per cent, or 18.5 times as fast.
At the same time United States popu-
tion to the speed limit in the borough |
Laceyville |, inion boys and girls
schools this fall.
lat on increased 61 per cent, and high
school students of the country grew .
747 per cent, or 12.2 times as fast,
These grades in Pennsylvania high
schools this year will enroll more than
300,000 boys and girls.
Including junior high school pupils,
the State will have more than half a
in its high
sports events and other features of a
varied program have been arranged.
Milk Strike Nearer Home
The milk strike which has been ef-
fecting' dairymen of the {New York
milk shed took on a more nearly local °
significance Sunday when State
Troopers and members of the State
highway patrol were called out Sunday
to maintain order at Springville, Sus-
quehanna county, a few miles north of #
Tunkhannock.
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