THE DALLAS POST, DALLAS ¥ PA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 19, 1034.
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: UME, TUGWELL this statement by Professor Rex. Tugwell:
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ulent and misleading advertisements, by far the most fla-
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~~ Secretary of Agriculture Wallace has continually em-
phasized the need for acreage reduction as a solution to
‘some of the most perplexing of farm problems. As he has
observed, it is simply the part of wisdom for American
farmers to stop adding to a constantly growing surplus of
; ko all the agricultural commodities.
~ Mr. Wallace's aid is being sought now, through govern-
mental action, and in certain fields de-
finite results have been obtained. In the
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Economic
Highlights
‘Happenings. - That Affect the.
Dinner Pails, Dividend Checks
and Tax Bills of Every Individual.
National and International Prob-
lems Inseparable From Local
Welfare.
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The end of 1933, so far ag business
is concerned, was characterized by
marked improvement in some basic
lines, smaller improvement in others, |
and retrogression in only a few. The
business indexes covering the year
present a strange, confusing picture.
When the summer upward surge be-
gan, in direct opposition to usual sea-
sonal tendencies, it was hoped and be-
lieved that it would continue. An un-
looked-for fall drop, which was also
opposed to the seasonal experience of
other years, followed. Gloom was deep-
est at that time. Then, again started
the upward trend of business, and De-
cember was a good month. Early re-
ports indicate that department store
sales shot up beyond expectations.
Commodity prices- were strong. Con-
sumers’ goods industries, especially,
were active, S
In brief, 1933 did not see the pro-
gress that was hoped for. The emer-
gency relief measures have been
something of a disappointment to even
their creators. The Agricultural Ad-
justment Act has been particularly un-
successful. But during the year a
start toward recovery wag made, and
the public morale strengthened —
which has never been more evident
than it is now, with 1934 opening.
Notes on business follow:
COMMODITY PRICES — In January
the commodity price index stood at
61. By July,
a major break.
DOMESTIC TRADE--—Every éffort of
the Administration since March has
been given to moving more goods in-
to the hands of consumers. It has
been moderately suecessful, in the
to higher prices. Of late, trade in ur-
ban areas has been less satisfactory
than in the major agricultural cen-
ters. Most striking advances
sales have been made by mail- order
houses.
EMPLOYMENT—Here is where the
greatest achievement of the year has
been made. Every month has witnes-
sed definite advance in both workers
employed and compensation received
Factory employment was 20 per
cent. higher this October than last—
payrolls 33% per. cent higher. In
the non-manufacturing ‘industries,
employment gains were reported for
11 out of 16 industries reviewed.
Only in the bituminous coal industry
has there been a significant late
drop, and that was largely due sto
labor difficulties, with attendant
strikes and lockouts.”
FINANCE—Generally speaking, excel-
cotton country, for example, plow-under
payments have caused striking economic
revival. But in the long run, the greatest]
fosutts will come through education—through constant and!
unremitting presentation of facts to farmers.
work, the agricultural cooperatives will be the prime in-
fluence.
They have shown that influence already. The Ameri-
: can Cotton Cooperative Association, for example, did essen-
“tial work in helping develop the government’s cotton pro-
; eram, and it is still working to see that the greatest bene-
Fit is secured. The Dairymen’ s League Cooperative Asso-
ciation in New York is the powerful ally of dairy farmers in
~ that locality. These and other major cooperatives have
done fine work in disposing of the production of their mem-
‘bers and in educating their members regarding production
and distribution problems. They are the greatest “farm
relievers” of all.
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: Progress brings new hazards to the hospitals every
day.
] For a long time it has been the automobile.
the airplane.
A few days ago a youngster, flying over a congested
section of Pittsburgh, found his plane
afire. He “bailed out” and left the plane
to land where it pleased, dropping down
Now it is
A NEW
VIEW OF
ACCIDENTS
: alighting, only slightly hurt, on a tele-
i one pole. The small plane caromed off a light pole, nar-
rowly missed pedestrians and motor cars on a busy boule-
_ vard, and smashed into a store-room, injuring two men in-
side, -one of whom was sent to a hospital with cuts from
flving glass.
Motor car accidents have cost the hospitals of Penn-
Sylvania at least $2,000,000 a year, not only because of the
Injured who could not pay for care, but because of losses:
owing to failure of insured drivers to make fair settlements.
~ Steps have been suggested to remedy this injustice, but
1gthing has been done. The hospitals still are forced to
shoulder the burden, despite less income and greater bur-
dens.
Hospital heads wonder what will happen when the
flight of planes over congested cities grows more frequent
; Filotless planes may land anywhere, without warning—may
-even fall upon street cars in rush-hour periods or pounce
down upon trapped cars in heavy lanes of traffic. The in-
jured must be treated at the nearest hospitals without re-
ference to whether they have any mony or not, that being
the hospital tradition.
: The hospital loss from motor accidents in the United
States is estimated at more than $25,000,000. One state,
Ohio, has passed a law diverting motor license funds to
compensate in part for this, feeling that automobiles were
| responsible for the accidents and rightfully should help
} cover the loss. But this question has not been broached in
f Pennsylvania, whose thousands of miles of curving high-
ways account for many automobile accidents.
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And in this!
in a parachute a few blocks away and;
' {STEELS—Here is
ening the banking structure,
! which were close
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Banks
d before the mora-
torium have been opened by the
hundreds, millions in. frozen assets
have been thawed out. Excess re-
serves of Federal Reserve banks re-
of close to $900,000,000. Government
credit has been = extraordinarily
Strong, with issues being sold out as
soon as announced,
FOREIGN | TRADE — Lately United
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it had moved up to 68.
The advance has continued without |
face of definite consumer-opposition |
in |
lent work has been done in strength- |
cently reached an unprecedent total |
Mitts rss
Sport Shafts |
mn EDWARD FF. KOTCHI uno]
The basketball teams of the Bi-
County interscholastic Conference last
Friday night started off their schedule
After the shooting was over, Kingston
township, Laketon, and Dallas town-
ship emerged the victors, while Beau-
mont, Lehman, and - Dallas borough
were the losers.
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Dallas borough, the Conference
champions of last year, outshot its
opponents but most of the trys went
awry, and Dallas township unexpect-
edly won by the comparatively close
score of 18 to 13. : 3
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Kingston township had some diffi-
culty in downing the plucky and
scrappy Beaumont basketball team.
After a hectic struggle the township
pulled out on the long end of an 16 to
8 score.
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s &
Laketon pulled a fast one in defeat-
ing the highly touted basketball team
of Lehman. The boys won by a 38 to
21 score, while: the girls team upset
the champioaship Lehman team 32 to
14. Laketon showed fight, speed, and
team co-ordination in downing Leh-
man, and if it stays the pace it should
have more than a little smething to
say in the race for Conference honors.
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“ "Twas The Night After Christmas”
Twas the night after Christmas
And through the domain
Every athlete was Tesling
pain;
For with turkey and pudding and all
he could eat: :
He was feeling as though
sessed leaden feet.
a terrible
he ©pos-
The backboards were placed on the
gym floor with care,
3ut the athlete just wished that the
baskets weren't there.
he’d danced and he'd dined an
he’d rushed his best goil
{And his thoughts were quite far from
all efforts and toil.
For
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And when he returned from his holi-
day term,
He was ready to swear by the turn-
ing worm.
And we fancied he asked,
entered the hall:
the guy that
game, basketball?
as’ he
Who's invented this
This little ditty was contributed by
a fan who witnessed the
games played between the Shaver-
town-Laketon teams and the Trucks-
lville-Dallas .games that night after
Christmas.
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Rural League Features
Orange's one point margin of vie-
tory at Lehman was the surprise of
the recent play of the Rural League.
It had been expected that Lehman
of the victory scored Orange
earlier in the season.
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over
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Noxen has to date won ‘six straight
games and Monk Turner's combina-
tion of himself, Shalata,
i McKeena and Turna, the boys he put
together ‘whenever 'he had a chance
last year, appear destined to be noth-
ing worse than a coatender this year
for first place.
States foreign trade
. sharply both in volume pad hatance,
Exports have increase
leaving us with a sizable balance of
trade. The recognition of Russia, re-
cently effected, is expected to pro-
duce a considerable inflation of our
export business.
REAL ESTATE
complete figures have been issued,
construction contracts awarded
were, with a single exception, the
best for any month since November,
1931. The industry had a bad year,
but improvement is setting in.
RAILROADS — 1932 brought many
railroads to the verge of bankruptcy,
endangered others, Is 1933 business
was better, profits were -up. Most
encouraging of all to the railroad
managements is the friendly atti-
tude of the Administration.
UTILITIES—Here the experience was
not as favorable as was hoped.
Sale of power in many localities has
risen. But profits have dwindled,
due to tax and legislative policies
which increased costs, made it im-
| possible to meet them by raising the
price of power to the public. Still
another threat is government com-
petition.
AGRICULTURE —/The
cheered by the A. A. A. when it was
passed. Then he was drastically,
violently disappointed. Strikes and
disorder followed. A few months
ago agricultural income, when ad-
justed to living costs, was lower
dhan ever. Now improvement has
started i> .many fields, more opti-
mism is evident bout .ir Admisistra-
tion and Farm circles. Bh
LUMBER—No important industry ex-
perienced so sharp an advance in
prices as lumber—and none wus
more at sea over what to do. Gen-
erally speaking, the price advance
was close to 50 per cent during the
year. Orders have likewise been
good for the most part—but mot as
good as was hoped. Cost of opera-
tion has materially risen.
another industry
which hit the top, bounced back to
bottom, then started up again, dur-
ing the year. Ihast summer it rea-
ched the best peak in a long time—
then started steadily down. In the
second week of November it was
around 26 per cent of capacity.
Heavy industries, which are the only
important steel buyers, have been
purchasing lightly.
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Card of Thanks
We wiish to thank all those who
assisted in our recent bereavement
and also those who ‘sent flowers and
furnished cars.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Smith
and Family
farmer was
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has expanded |
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(Dallas by losing its last three
and its fourth out of five
es apparently put itself out of the
{championship class.
The poor showing
town team this year is responsible
for the management there and at
Trucksville to dig down in their
pockets to meet expenses. Last year
at this time, Shavertown had won 10
straight games. Then Dallas scored
a vietory and Shavertown finally lost
in the playoff series.
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of the Shaver-
Taken as a whole, the Rural
League appears to have a more open
race than ever this year.
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- Scoring records for the first five
weeks of play showed that the
Orange team was léading the league
with 889 points, which does not in-
clude the games of this week, and the
one last Saturday with Dallas. They
hung up a record for the league with
a 73 point score over Shavertown.
Last year Shavertown hung up a
record of 72 points, with Addison
Woolbert making an individual scor-
ing record of 31 points. Noxen is sec-
ond in scoring with 341, Laketon
third with 291; Lehman with 254;
Dallas with 227, Shavertown with
223 and Trucksville with 216.
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The following letter was sent in by a
witness of the Orange-Dallas basket-
ball game which took place at Noxen,
Saturday night.
Dear Sir:—
“athe Qrange- -Dadag game at Noxen
was more like %~. foanall game or a
wrestling match, “Seaveral times
throughout the game,
7s
three oo.
players were scrambling and fighting
on the floor.
Dallas does mot want to cry or
chirp now that the game is over, but
I think that such a spectacle should
not be permitted to be repeated. I
realize that the floor is small; I think
that the root of the trouble lies in the
fact that the game got away from the
official. The one and only solution to
that problem is competent officials.
During most of the latter part of
the game it was utterly impossible for
Dallas players to hold the ball or pass
it due to the rough and tumble tac-
tics of some of the Orangemen believ-
ed to have been put in the game for
just that purpose. It was obvious to
all who saw these men in action that
they had little or no ability as basket-
ball players whatsoever which makes
the above statement all the more evi-
dent. I believe that a discerning of-
ficial could handle a game and have
little or mo trouble of this kind at all.
Yours for cleaner and better
Mr. and Mrs. William Boice
Russell Newell,
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basketball |.
would win by a large margin because
Wharton,
four |
basketball, |
A Rural League Fan
J 2 T H UMANS
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“What Shall | Wear at the Fancy Dress Ball?”
“Disguise as a Woman for a Change.”
Farm Product Prices Rising
Many farm products showed the ir-
regular upward trend of the general!
commodity markets for the first two
weeks of January, according to the
Bureau of Economics of the Depart-
ment of Agriculture. Price gains of
livestock were especially encouraging.
Cotton and grain = advaaced
but firmly. Tone of the dairy markets
became better, and cheese-market
action strengthened. Trend of the egg
and dressed-poultry market was irre-
slightly.
gular but mainly upward. Potatoes
and ‘onions advanced sharply as did
Isome varieties of apples. Increased
lsomana for cotton from domestic mills
continued. Attention is focused on
preparations for the 1934 crop under
the planned curtailment of 25,000,000
acres. . Market stocks of wheat have
been reduced to about 133,000,000
bushels, compared with 171,000,000 in
Jasuwary 1933, Prices gained on
practically all classes. Rye continued
firm. Marketing of corn was light.
Oats held unchanged.
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USNR,
or BOARD THE BYRD FLAG-
SHIP, JACOB RUPPERT:—
(Via Mackay Radio). “Today your
lives were in the hands of God and
the engine room. If either had
failed, you would all be dead men
tonight!”
| This is what Commodore Gjert-
sen told us -at dinner tonight
(December 26) and it made me
realize more than anything that has
_happened since this trip began,
. what deadly realities we are up
against.
, For four days we have drifted
around in the fog, half the time
with a howling northwest gale try-
ro [ing to destroy us.
It is getting cold
as the deuce. And
if we had anybody
less experienced
and cautious than
Commodore Gjert-
sen, a small. but
amazingly force-
ful Norwegian ice
expert, and Cap-
} z ftain Verleger
Medical Officer” leading our great
G. O. Shirey ship through what
must be the world’s most danger
ous waters, the gale would have
accomplished its purpose against
us—the gale and the icebergs. We
have not been able to see more
‘than three miles since last Fri-
day and usually only a few hun-
dred ‘yards. And we’ve made only
56 miles sinee noon Saturday.
Thousands of icebergs go plung-
ing past us in the gloom—some
of them five miles long, two or
three miles wide and estimated
at 1,000 feet or more from high
tip to submerged bottom. If we
ram our 11,000 ton ship into one
of them or run over the sub-
merged part of it—well, the Ti-
tanic did that, you know. Or if
one of them rushes at us out of
the invisible distance and crashes
into the side of our ship, it will|Y
be just too bad. But our wise and
_able skippers know their stuff and
are performing ~miracies vd’, judg-
ment and Stoorsibanceln, every
minute every day. :
This morning, however, they
met an enemy they hadn’t counted
on—water—water in the oil. In
the midst of our work of dodging
these moving ice mountains, stop-
ping to let them drift by, or dash-
ing out of their way, the engine
room reported that some water
which had leaked into the star
board tank had risen through the
oil, had been pumped under pres-
sure to the burner nozzles and
had extinguished the flames which
keep us going by making our
steam. By the time Chief Engineer
Queen had switched to the port
tank and had begun to revive our
lost steam pressure, our ship had
lost practically all of her head-
way and for more than an hour
we drifted in a 50-mile gale almost
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helpless. Then the steam returned
and we resumed our game of tag
with the strange moving city of
ice. It made us think serious
thoughts.
I have learned, to my surprise,
that ice is a noisy thing. The
waves, as ‘they splash against
these mammoth bergs, eat great
holes in them, in which the
plunging water roars in a thous-
and hollow keys. The smaller
bergs and cakes, as they gallop
by us or we push our way through
“leads” in their tightly packed
mass, give out strange growling
sounds and the constant ringing |
of the bell signals from the bridge
to the engine room, all help to
make it anything but quiet around,
Fore.
~ Speaking of sounds, I had a
funny experience today. I was
leaning over the starboard deck
rail looking at the restless sheets
of ice as we ploughed through
them. No one else was on deck.
Suddenly, from some place off the
ship, I heard a gruff voice yell,
“Hey! Hey!” 1 saw nobody. Again
it was repeated. I crossed to the.
port rail in time to hear the an- -}
gry call right below me. And there]
on the ice was a small Adelie pen-!
guin, about 18 inches tall, run-
ning along on the drifts with a!
perfect Charlie Chaplin waddle,
keeping up .with the ship and
turning his head every few sec-
onds to look up at us angrily and |
cry, “Hey! Hey!”, just as a:
farmer might shout at boys steal-
ing apples. He was protesting this,
steel monster blustering throughj
his icy domain. And, as I watched.
him, he flopped over and started toj
toboggan along on his breast, push-!
ing himself along frantically with.
his flippers and sculling with his
feet. Then he became upright again,
running alongside, glaring at us and
yelling “Hey! Hey!” He was al
scream.
We had a swell Christmas. tts, |
| from the home folks — music —,
songs—a errand dinner with turkey
and wonderful fixingse. All our
troubles forgotten for a few m
I hope all members of our club had.
as pleasant a Christmas and tha
we shall have a happy and interest
ing new year together. They tell me
the maps we are sending to all!
members, without charge, will go
to them in a few days now, so they
can mark on them the wonderful
flights and other #xploration’ trie, :
Admiral Byrd and others are going
to make. If you're of high school
age or over and aren't a member
yet, you can become one right
away, with no obligation of any
kind, by writing me at the Little
America Aviation and Exploration’
Club, Hotel Lexington, 48th Street
and Lexington Ave., New York,
N. Y., enclosing a self- addressed!
stamped envelope.